Stolle Meadows Cabin
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:57 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Historic Stolle Meadows Cabin is a single-room dwelling that has been restored to near original condition. it's located in a beautiful setting near a variety of recreational activities. The cabin is available year-round. The route to the cabin is drivable in warmer months but is only accessible by a 6.5-mile ski or snowmobile trek in the winter. Many conveniences are provided for a comfortable and pleasant experience, but guests may want to bring some additional gear and supplies. Keep reading
Recreation
Beautiful Warm Lake is less than 5 miles from the cabin, offering boating, canoeing and fishing for rainbow, cutthroat, lake and bull trout. Billy Rice Swim Beach, on the north shore of the lake, is a great day-use site for picnicking and swimming. Numerous hiking, biking, horse and off-road vehicle trails crisscross the area around the lake. Click here for an Idaho OHV safety message. A popular activity is to explore nearby Vulcan Hot Springs, about 1.5 miles away. Winter activities include snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and sledding. Hunting season brings out hunters in search of big game.
Facilities
The cabin contains one double bed and one twin trundle bed with mattresses, a table and chairs, dry sink, wood stove and firewood, propane cooking stove with fuel, pots and pans, dishes, tableware, solar lights and a first aid kit. An axe and maul are provided to split firewood. An outhouse with vault toilet and a picnic table are located outside. Drinking water is available year-round from a hand pump outside the cabin. No electricity is available at the cabin. Guests should consider bringing backup lighting in case the solar powered lights are dim. Garbage bags must be brought in to pack out trash. Bedding and pillows are not provided.
Natural Features
The cabin is nestled in a mixed-growth lodgepole pine forest on a bluff overlooking Stolle Meadows at an elevation of 5,300 feet. Above the forest, mountain peaks rise into the sky. Many wildlife species make their home here. Elk, deer, moose, bear and a variety of other animals frequent the forest. Snowshoe hares and ermine are active in winter, though they may be hard to spot with their white winter coats.
Nearby Attractions
Near Stolle Meadows is a South Fork Salmon River site where visitors can watch Chinook salmon spawn every August. A boardwalk features interpretive signs.
What the agency tells you
Please have the cabin combination upon arrival, which is included in the reservation confirmation letter; please contact the Cascade Ranger District Office at (208) 382-7400 prior to arrival to confirm the combination
After dialing in the combination to the cabin on the lock, the body of the lock and the hasp must be squeezed together for the lock to open
Cabin is pack-it-in/pack-it-out
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Campfires are not permitted
The cabin lighting is provided by solar panels; wintertime conditions, including rain, ice and snow, can limit the amount of light available in the solar cells : Currently solar system is being worked on, please bring alternative lighting.
The nearest telephone is at Warm Lake Lodge
Tents or additional camping outside the cabin are not allowed
Click here for more information about Boise National Forest
Please click here for further information about the facility and recreation opportunities in the area.
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 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Not allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…to split firewood. An outhouse with vault toilet and a picnic table are located outside. Drinking…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and a picnic table are located outside. Drinking water is available year-round from a hand pump outside…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
- Stay limit
- 4 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Lake, River, Beach, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Winter sports
Full this Saturdayread 15:57 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday, and on four midweek nights after it as well. read 15:57 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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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.
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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 · 12
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 15:57 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| STOL | 001 | cabin nonelectric | 249 ft | $80 |
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
Picnic Point (ID)Boise National Forest · 4.0 mi
Warm LakeBoise National Forest · 4.2 mi
ShorelineBoise National Forest · 4.3 mi
Shoreline Campground and Group sitesBoise National Forest · 4.3 miSouth Fork Salmon River CampgroundBoise National Forest · 4.6 miSummit Lake CampgroundBoise National Forest · 5.6 miFrom Boise, Idaho, take Highway 55 north 85 miles to Cascade. Turn east on Warm Lake Highway and go 25 miles to Stolle Meadows Road (427). Turn south and go 5 miles to cabin, which will be on your left up a small hill.
The 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 · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Stolle Meadows Cabin 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyRuss FulcherU.S. Representative · Idaho’s 1st district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJames E. RischU.S. Senator · Idaho
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMike CrapoU.S. Senator · Idaho
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Stolle Meadows Cabin, Boise National Forest, Idaho
Dear Russ Fulcher, I’m a constituent in Idaho’s 1st district. I tried to camp at Stolle Meadows Cabin, Boise National Forest, Idaho, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Stolle Meadows Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Stolle Meadows Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Stolle Meadows Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Stolle Meadows Cabin (Boise National Forest, Idaho) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Stolle Meadows Cabin, Boise National Forest, Idaho
Dear James E. Risch, I’m a constituent in Idaho. I tried to camp at Stolle Meadows Cabin, Boise National Forest, Idaho, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Stolle Meadows Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Stolle Meadows Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Stolle Meadows Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Stolle Meadows Cabin (Boise National Forest, Idaho) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Stolle Meadows Cabin, Boise National Forest, Idaho
Dear Mike Crapo, I’m a constituent in Idaho. I tried to camp at Stolle Meadows Cabin, Boise National Forest, Idaho, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Stolle Meadows Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Stolle Meadows Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Stolle Meadows Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Stolle Meadows Cabin (Boise National Forest, Idaho) via campanac.com