Stoddard Creek Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $17–$34Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Stoddard Creek Campground is located just 1 mile off I-15 and 17 miles north of the town of Dubois, Idaho. Visitors come to the area to enjoy the abundance of trails, wildlife viewing opportunities and scenic beauty. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, hiking, mountain biking, motorcycling and ATV riding are popular activities in the area. The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail can be accessed 8 miles away, where it crosses I-15.
Facilities
The campground contains one accessible group site that can accommodate up to 50 people. Picnic tables and campfire circles are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. A campground host is on-site. PLEASE NOTE: The Group Site (currently designated 008) will be relocated to the NEW group area beginning the 2019 season. ALL reservations made for the OLD group site (008) will be transferred to the NEW group area.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a Douglas fir and aspen forest. Stoddard Creek runs just below the site. The campground is approximately 11 miles south of the Idaho-Montana border via Monida Pass on the Continental Divide.
Nearby Attractions
Phone, gas and groceries are 5 miles away in Spencer, Idaho or 17 miles away in Dubois.
What the agency tells you
The campground map displayed is inaccurate. Use the following link for an accurate map. Correct site map
Wildlife Caution
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Everything else this campground posts · 7
There are no electric, water or sewer hookups
This campground has a solar powered water system and has limited capacity. Please arrive with sufficent water in your RV fresh water tank.
Please bring your confirmation letter to the campground
A $6 fee for each extra vehicle will be collected at the campground.
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
- 20 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- 15
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire circles are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. A campground…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. A campground host is on-site.…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 205th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
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 · 15
What you actually pay
“A $6 fee for each extra vehicle will be collected at the campground.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $17–$34 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
21 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 21 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. 20 of the 21 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard nonelectric | yes | 100 ft | 403 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | yes | 91 ft | 401 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | yes | 91 ft | 400 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | yes | 92 ft | 390 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | yes | 94 ft | 343 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | yes | 95 ft | 297 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 248 ft | $17–$34 | ||
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | yes | 74 ft | 229 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard nonelectric | yes | 74 ft | 222 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 10-Host | host pad | 583 ft | $15 | |||
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | yes | 86 ft | 475 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | yes | 86 ft | 560 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | yes | 121 ft | 442 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | yes | 121 ft | 558 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | 146 ft | 712 ft | $17–$34 | ||
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 16 | standard nonelectric | 146 ft | 818 ft | $17–$34 | ||
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 18 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 731 ft | $17–$34 | ||
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 19 | standard nonelectric | yes | 38 ft | 760 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 20 | standard nonelectric | yes | 41 ft | 787 ft | $17–$34 | |
| STODDARD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 21 | standard nonelectric | yes | 51 ft | 812 ft | $17–$34 | |
| GS-1 | group standard area nonelectric | 40 ft | 147 ft | 862 ft | $125 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. 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
Al Taylor CabinTarghee National Forest · 10 mi
Steel Creek Group CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 10 mi
East Creek CampgroundBeaverhead National Forest · 24 mi
Antone CabinBeaverhead National Forest · 25 miEast Fork Blacktail Deer Creek WsaDillon Field Office · 29 mi
West Fork Cabin (S of Ennis)Beaverhead National Forest · 31 miFrom Dubois, Idaho: Travel north on I-15 to the Stoddard Creek Exit (Exit 184). Go west on Stoddard Creek Road (FR 002) for approximately 1 mile to the Stoddard Creek Campground Road (FR 003), then turn left into the campground.
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 41°F, day 67°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 41°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
Stoddard Creek 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 →