U.S. Forest Service · Salmon National Forest · ID

Twin Creek Campground Group Camping Site

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 15 opens May 15.
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Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Sites
1All of them booked ahead
5,150 ftElevation
219 ftWater · Twin Creek
29.1 miN of Salmon, ID
42%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 63rd darkest of 523 in ID

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices

In the agency’s own words

Twin Creek Group Camping Site is part of the larger Twin Creek Campground. This beautiful campsite is located 15 miles north of North Fork, Idaho, and is situated along Twin Creek at an elevation of 5,100 feet. Keep reading

Recreation

The recreational opportunities are abundant in this corner of the Salmon-Challis National Forest. There are fishing opportunities in the North Fork of the Salmon River and in Twin Creek. For the hikers, there are numerous trails in the area but trails #6108 and #6109 are located just behind the campground (pick up a visitor map or contact the North Fork District Office for more information). During certain parts of the year berry picking can be excellent around the campground.

Facilities

Twin Creek Campground Group Camping Site has numerous amenities including a large parking area (for multiple vehicles and or trailers), a double vault toilet, drinking water, four picnic tables (two of which are extra-long), a large fire ring, multiple barbeque pedestals, a large barbeque pit, a historic pavilion with a picnic table and benches, and two horseshoe pits. Electricity and water/sewer hookups are not available at this site/campground.

Natural Features

Twin Creek Campground Group Camping Site is located in the Twin Creek drainage near its confluence with the North Fork of the Salmon River. Large pine trees and brush surround the campsite offering plenty of shade and privacy.

Nearby Attractions

While you are in the area be sure to check out the beautiful Salmon River, located 15 south of the campsite. Also, brush up on some history and imagine you are Lewis and Clark as you travel along Highway 93, which contains portions of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.

What the agency tells you

Rule

Reservations are available from May 15th through Labor Day. Camping outside of this date range is first-come, first-served with the fee still required (pay onsite).

Rule

When making reservations during the shoulder season (March-April and October-November) please contact the North Fork Ranger District Office at (208) 865-2700 for the most up to date information on snow/availability of drinking water.

Rule

Check-in time is 2:00 p.m. and check-out time is 12:00 p.m. (Noon)

Everything else this campground posts · 6
Rule

The Group site has a maximum capacity of 35 individuals

Rule

No electric, water or sewer hookups at this site/campground.

Rule

No livestock allowed in the campground.

Rule

Please bring garbage bags; this is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility.

Rule

For more information on the Salmon-Challis National Forest visit, http://www.fs.usda.gov/scnf.

Rule

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.

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Tents and rigs

Sites
1 · 1 group
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…vehicles and or trailers), a double vault toilet, drinking water, four picnic tables (two of which…”
Drinking water
Yes
“…and or trailers), a double vault toilet, drinking water, four picnic tables (two of which are extra-long),…”

Around the campground

On the water
River, Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 15, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 15, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
Sites, a night, from$30From the rate schedule matched to 1 of its 1 sites. U.S. Forest Service publishes no campground-level rate we can read.derived by CAMPANAC
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Sat, May 15 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 12

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
Sites, a night, from$30
Derived by CAMPANAC from the rate schedule matched to 1 of its 1 sites. U.S. Forest Service publishes no campground-level rate for this campground that we can read, only per-site rate templates its own record matches to each site’s own type.
Group area, a night$30
These are next season’s rates, May 15, 2027 to Sep 9, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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

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The sites

1 sites · the site map

All 1 sites

1 of 1 sites located
Group1
Aerial · Esri World Imagery
SleepsUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

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.

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Coordinate45.60831, -113.97061
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Getting there

Twin Creek Campground Group Camping Site can be accessed from two directions on Highway 93. From North Fork, Idaho, travel 15 miles north on US 93, turn left on Forest Road 156 and travel an additional .5 miles. Turn left into the Group Camping Site. From the top of Lost Trail Pass travel 8.5 miles south on US 93, turn right on Forest Road 156, travel an additional .5 miles and turn left into the Group Camping Site.

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight35°Partly Cloudy
Saturday62°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night35°Mostly Cloudy
Sunday59°Sunny

NWS forecast for Sula, MT

Typical weather

Typical October night 27°F, day 58°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 12°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°0°

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.

Measured at: SULA 3 ENE, MT (USC00247964), 17 miles away and 675 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Anderson Mountain18,494 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Anderson Mountain31,501 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Mike Simpson, official portrait

Twin Creek Campground Group Camping Site 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Sula, MT, 14.5 mi S (a census designated place). Straight line.