South Fork Salmon River Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The South Fork Salmon River Campground hosts 11 campsites situated in a scenic forest of towering, old-growth ponderosa pine, which provides partial shade in the campground. Warm Lake is just a short distance away from the campground and visitors enjoy all the recreation opportunities that the lake has to offer in the day, while staying in a quiet setting for evening relaxation. Chipmunk Creek runs alongside the campground. Summer wildflowers and butterflies are abundant. There are lots of picnic and hiking opportunities. Keep reading
You may get a glimpse of variety of wildlife including bears, deer, elk, fox, grouse, eagles, osprey, grosbeaks, whooping cranes and otters, that live in the area. Recreation: Just a short drive from the campground, is Warm Lake offering great fishing opportunities for cutthroat, rainbow, lake and bull trout. Boating, canoeing and swimming are also popular activities. Billy Rice Swim Beach is available at Warm Lake Lodge on the north side of the lake. The area offers a day-use site for picnicking and swimming. There is a boat ramp is located at nearby Shoreline Campground. The surrounding area offers great hiking, mountain biking, horseback and off-road vehicle riding, and hunting. The WeWuKiye (Wa Wu Kia) Trail No. 252 was recently built and can be accessed at Shoreline Campground. It is popular for hiking and mountain biking. For off-road vehicle enthusiasts, Telephone Ridge Trail No. 112 offers 20 miles of trails for all riding levels, with staging areas at Shoreline Campground. In September, you may want to visit the South Fork Salmon River fish viewing site. The bridge-walkway enables you to see to see chinook salmon that have traveled 700 miles from the Pacific Ocean to spawn.
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Coast
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Picnic Point (ID)Boise National Forest · 1.5 mi
Shoreline Campground and Group sitesBoise National Forest · 1.7 mi
ShorelineBoise National Forest · 1.8 mi
Warm LakeBoise National Forest · 2.3 miPenny Springs CampgroundBoise National Forest · 3.9 mi
Stolle Meadows CabinBoise National Forest · 4.6 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cascade, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
South Fork Salmon River Campground is in Idaho’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Russ Fulcher (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →