Trail Creek
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $17From, per site
- Sites
- 9All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Trail Creek Campground is located along Trail Creek on scenic Teton Pass, just 7 miles from Victor, Idaho at an elevation of 6,600 feet. Visitors enjoy fishing, exploring local trails and sightseeing in this beautiful region. Keep reading
Recreation
Trail Creek offers fishing for Yellowstone cutthroat and brook trout. Hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding are popular activities on the nearby Mikesell Canyon Trail, which begins 2 miles away at Mike Harris Campground.
Facilities
The campground contains single-family sites, many of which back onto the creek. All sites are equipped with picnic tables, campfire rings, grills and food storage lockers. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads and parking spurs are gravel. The highway is visible from most sites, so campers can expect to hear passing vehicles.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the banks of Trail Creek in an open grassy meadow lined with Douglas fir, spruce and aspen trees. A variety of wildlife makes its home in the area, including moose and deer. Summer wildflowers are abundant. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 351-1182.
Nearby Attractions
Popular activities in the area include the Teton Valley Summer Festival over the Fourth of July in Driggs, with a hot air balloon festival, parade, rodeo, bike races and craft booths. Grand Targhee Resort is nearby with outstanding annual music festivals: Targhee Fest is in mid-July; Targhee Bluegrass Festival is in mid-August. The resort also offers lift-served hiking and mountain biking, scenic lift rides, guided horseback riding, a climbing wall and an 18-hole disc golf course. Grand Teton National Park's Granite Entrance is 20 miles away; Jackson, Wyoming is 17 miles away. Yellowstone National Park is within a couple hours drive.
What the agency tells you
Wildlife Caution
Idaho OHV Safety Message
An $8 fee extra vehicles will be collected at the campground per day
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Please bring reservation confirmation to the campground
This campground has first come, first served sites
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.
Check-in Time is 2:00pm and Check-out time is 12:00pm
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and food storage lockers. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…lockers. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads and…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Night sky · 228th darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 26 km away
- Peak color
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
“An $8 fee extra vehicles will be collected at the campground per day” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
10 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 10 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. 9 of the 10 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.
| TRAIL CREEK | 001 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 165 ft | $17 | |
| TRAIL CREEK | 002 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 94 ft | $17 | |
| TRAIL CREEK | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 124 ft | $17 |
| TRAIL CREEK | 005 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 85 ft | $17 | |
| TRAIL CREEK | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 156 ft | 114 ft | $17 |
| TRAIL CREEK | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 149 ft | 88 ft | $17 |
| TRAIL CREEK | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 57 ft | $17 |
| TRAIL CREEK | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 83 ft | 78 ft | $17 |
| TRAIL CREEK | 011 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 102 ft | 89 ft | $17 |
| TRAIL CREEK | HOST | host pad | 40 ft | 91 ft | 59 ft | $17 |
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
Mike HarrisTarghee National Forest · 1.9 mi
Pine Creek CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 8.6 mi
Palisades Creek CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 13 mi
BIG ELKTarghee National Forest · 16 mi
Reunion FlatTarghee National Forest · 16 mi
Riverside Park CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 16 miLocated 7 miles southeast of Victor, Idaho, adjacent to Wyoming Highway 22, 2 miles south of Mike Harris Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Victor, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 6°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
Trail Creek is in Wyoming’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Harriet Hageman (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →