Summit View Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $17From, per site
- Sites
- 21All of them booked ahead
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Summit View Campground is located eight miles east of U.S. Highway 30, near Georgetown, Idaho. It is in a forested setting, high in the Bear River Range. Visitors enjoy exploring area trails, including the Great Western Trail, and picking seasonal wild huckleberries. Keep reading
Recreation
Summit View sits within the Great Western Trail corridor, which offers excellent hiking, biking, horseback riding and off-road vehicle riding opportunities. The Harrington Peak trail, a 3.5-mile one-way trail to the summit, begins within the campground.
Facilities
The campground contains 18 single-family campsites and three group sites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. An amphitheater is on-site. Roads and parking spurs within the campground are dirt.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a lodgepole pine forest, where summer grasses and wildflowers are plentiful. During the fall, wild huckleberries can be found in abundance throughout the campground.
What the agency tells you
Wildlife Caution
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Click here for more information on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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.
Check-in Time is 2:00pm and Check-out time is 12:00pm
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 21 · 3 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campsites and three group sites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. An amphitheater is…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and three group sites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. An amphitheater is on-site. Roads and…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Biking
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 419th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 3
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $17 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
21 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 21 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. 21 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.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 120 ft | 1,911 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 120 ft | 1,927 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 122 ft | 1,891 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 122 ft | 1,896 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 150 ft | 1,875 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 150 ft | 2,003 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $17 | ||
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 105 ft | 2,064 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 2,270 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 103 ft | 2,349 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 111 ft | 2,441 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 145 ft | 2,569 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 014 | group standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 2,836 ft | $67–$80 | |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 015 | group standard nonelectric | 204 ft | 3,039 ft | $67–$80 | |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 016 | group standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 2,783 ft | $67–$80 | |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 139 ft | 2,420 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 139 ft | 2,282 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 84 ft | 2,202 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 121 ft | 2,132 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 105 ft | 2,017 ft | $17 |
| SUMMIT VIEW CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 137 ft | 1,921 ft | $17 |
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
Clear Creek Guard StationCaribou National Forest · 6.9 mi
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Johnson Guard StationCaribou National Forest · 12 mi
Eight Mile Guard StationCache National Forest · 14 mi
Montpelier Canyon CampgroundCaribou National Forest · 16 mi
Mill Canyon CampgroundCaribou National Forest · 18 miFrom Georgetown, Idaho, turn east on County Road 102. Travel two miles, and turn left on Forest Road 095 (the sign indicates the Left Fork of Georgetown Canyon). Continue about six 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 Georgetown, ID
Typical weather
Typical June night 38°F, day 71°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 38°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
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
Summit View 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 →