Ten Mile Campground
1Heads up1 fire 41 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Ten Mile is small campground, a quick 48 mile drive from Boise, Idaho, along State Highway 21 on the Idaho City Ranger District of the Boise National Forest. The campground is about 10 miles past the Historic Idaho City and is split into two sections (Upper and Lower) by the highway. This area is known for its beautiful old forest of Ponderosa Pine. Wildflowers abound in the summer months. Fishing opportunities in Mores Creek and some campsites have creek access. Keep reading
Recreation
There are numerous opportunities to go hiking, biking, horseback rising and ride off-road vehicles within a short car ride away. In the winter the area is a playgound for winter sports including cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.
Facilities
The campground sites have campfire rings, picnic tables and a vault toilet, and a hand pump for potable water. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (208) 392-6681.
What the agency tells you
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.
Water from hand pump is tested monthly for contaminants and will be abruptly shut off if not currently potable. Please plan accordingly with your own water supply in case of a shut off during your stay.
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Pets must be on a leash at all times.
Campfires are allowed in fire rings ONLY, unless fire restrictions are in place. Contact Idaho City Ranger District for updates regarding fire restrictions.
Quiet hours are from 10pm-6am
No trash service: Pack-in-Pack-out
Reservations cancelled last minute due to weather or smoke conditions will not be refunded unless campground is closed to the public
Generators only permitted from 6am-10pm.
Sites 1, 8, 9, 10, and 15 are adjacent and within close proximity to Highway 21.
Sites 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, and 15 have direct access to creek.
Closest cell service is in Idaho City (approx. 10 miles) or Mores Creek Summit (approx. 5 miles)
Site 6 is tent only - NO TRAILER ACCESS
For questions regarding the campground, please contact the Idaho City Ranger District at (208) 392-6681
For questions regarding reservations and refunds, please contact Recreation.gov customer service.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 71 ft
- Paved pads
- 14 of 15
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 12 of 15 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 15 of 15 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (HAND PUMP) on 15 of 15 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Night sky · 469th 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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites
All 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Lower Ten Mile | 001 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | $20 |
| Lower Ten Mile | 002 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $20 |
| Lower Ten Mile | 003 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $20 |
| Lower Ten Mile | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $20 |
| Lower Ten Mile | 005 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | $20 |
| Lower Ten Mile | 006 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | $20 |
| Lower Ten Mile | 007 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $20 |
| Lower Ten Mile | 008 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | $20 |
| Lower Ten Mile | 009 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | $20 |
| Upper Ten Mile | 010 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | $20 |
| Upper Ten Mile | 011 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $20 |
| Upper Ten Mile | 012 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $20 |
| Upper Ten Mile | 013 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | $20 |
| Upper Ten Mile | 014 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | $20 |
| Upper Ten Mile | 015 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Bad Bear CampgroundBoise National Forest · 1.1 mi
Edna Creek CampgroundBoise National Forest · 1.1 mi
Hayfork Group CGBoise National Forest · 1.1 miEdna Creek CampgroundBoise National Forest · 6.3 mi
Beaver Creek Cabin (ID)Boise National Forest · 6.9 mi
Black RockBoise National Forest · 9.5 miFrom Idaho City travel State Highway 21 north for about 10 miles to the campground. There are signed entrances on the left and right sides of the road, as this campground is divided on either side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Idaho City, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 14°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Ten Mile 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 →