Spring Creek Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $10–$15Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 1513 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Spring Creek Campground is located along the peaceful Spring Creek in the Hitt Mountains of western Idaho. Visitors enjoy relaxing along the gentle creek, fishing and exploring local trails. Once on-site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. If this option is available, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Keep reading
Recreation
Several miles of hiking, biking and off-road vehicle trails crisscross the area. The Sturgill Peak Trail climbs to a 7,289-foot summit and an active fire lookout built in 1934. Hikers are rewarded with views of the surrounding Hitt Range and the Wallowa Mountains to the west.
Facilities
The campground offers several single-family campsites and one large group picnic site than can accommodate up to 100 guests. Picnic tables and fire rings are provided, as are accessible vault toilets and drinking water.
Natural Features
The campground is situated beneath tall ponderosa pine and fir trees at an elevation of 4,750 feet. Summer temperatures are hot during the day, but the surrounding trees provide ample shade. The Payette National Forest encompasses some of Idaho's most beautiful and diverse country. Located in west-central Idaho north of Boise, the 2.3 million-acre forest extends 100 miles west to east from Hells Canyon to the Middle Fork Salmon River, and 70 miles north to south from the Salmon River to the Weiser River.
Nearby Attractions
Mann Creek Reservoir is about 15 miles from the campground, offering boating and fishing opportunities.
What the agency tells you
Idaho Off-road Vehicle Safety Message
No electric, water or sewer site hookups at this campground
Please bring garbage bags; this is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Additional sites may be available on a first come, first served basis
$2 fee for extra vehicles
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 32 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…rings are provided, as are accessible vault toilets and drinking water. Natural Features The campground…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…as are accessible vault toilets and drinking water. Natural Features The campground is situated…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 284th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:13 UTC
recreation.gov lists 13 of the 15 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
“$2 fee for extra vehicles” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$15 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:13 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
16 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 16 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 15 of the 16 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 001 | type not stated | 32 ft | 275 ftMann Creek | $10–$15 | ||
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 50 ft | 314 ftMann Creek | $10–$15 |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 61 ft | 261 ftMann Creek | $10–$15 | |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 50 ft | 342 ftMann Creek | $10–$15 | |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 72 ft | 346 ftMann Creek | $10–$15 | |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 72 ft | 406 ftMann Creek | $10–$15 | |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 66 ft | 306 ft | $10–$15 | |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 52 ft | 259 ft | $10–$15 | |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 52 ft | 211 ft | $10–$15 | |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 56 ft | 110 ft | $10–$15 | |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 56 ft | 156 ft | $10–$15 | |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 78 ft | 92 ft | $10–$15 |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 125 ft | 190 ftMann Creek | $10–$15 | |
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | GP1 | day use | 10 ft | 632 ftMann Creek | |||
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | Scan and Pay Double | type not stated | 22 ft | $10–$15 | |||
| SPRING CREEK CAMPGROUND | Scan and Pay Single | type not stated | 22 ft | $10–$15 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Mann Creek Campground11 mi
BrownleePayette National Forest · 13 mi
Buck Park CabinPayette National Forest · 18 mi
Spring Recreation SiteVale Baker Field Office · 20 miFrom Weiser, Idaho, travel north on Highway 95 for approximately 12 miles, then turn onto Upper Mann Creek Road/Forest Road 009 and travel another 18 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Midvale, 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
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Spring Creek 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 →