Steel Creek Group Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Steel Creek Group Campground is located 35 miles northeast of the town of Dubois, Idaho, and 9 miles northwest of Kilgore. Visitors come to the area to enjoy the abundance of trails, wildlife viewing opportunities and scenic beauty. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking, hunting, fishing, mountain biking and ATV riding are popular activities in area.
Facilities
The campground contains one large accessible group site that can accommodate up to 200 people. A common parking area is adjacent to the dining area. Picnic and serving tables, a grill and campfire circle are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water.
Natural Features
The campground offers picturesque views of the surrounding mountains and is situated among willow and pine trees adjacent to a small stream. A variety of wildlife makes its home around the campground.
Nearby Attractions
Phone, gas, and groceries are available in Dubois, Idaho. Minimal services are available in Kilgore, Idaho at the quaint Kilgore Store.
What the agency tells you
Wildlife Caution
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Access road to the campground is gravel
Everything else this campground posts · 6
There are no electric, water or sewer hookups
Please bring your confirmation letter to the campground
No OHVs allowed beyond the parking area
No pack or saddle stock in campground
Click here for more information on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest
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
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire circle are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Natural Features The campground…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Natural Features The campground offers picturesque…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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 · 11
What you actually pay
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
| STCGC | GS1 | group standard area nonelectric | yes | 366 ft |
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
Al Taylor CabinTarghee National Forest · 0.3 mi
Stoddard Creek CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 10 mi
Antone CabinBeaverhead National Forest · 24 miElk Lake Dispersed Camping and Picnic AreaBeaverhead National Forest · 24 mi
West Fork Cabin (S of Ennis)Beaverhead National Forest · 24 mi
Bishop Mountain CabinTarghee National Forest · 25 miFrom Dubois, Idaho: Travel north on I-15 to the Stoddard Creek Exit (Exit 184). Go east on West Camas-Miners Creek Road (FR 006) for approximately 14 miles to Steel Creek Road (FR 478), turn right and continue 0.75 miles to the campground entrance.
From the Kilgore Store: Travel west/northwest approximately 8.25 miles on the West Camas-Miners Creek Road (FR 006) to Steel Creek Road (FR 478), turn left and continue 0.75 miles to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Spencer, ID
Typical weather
Typical May night 35°F, day 62°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Steel Creek Group Campground is in Idaho’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Mike Simpson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →