Wildhorse Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 38 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Six campsites on Wildhorse Lake, in a lovely riparian meadow. A trail from the campground leads into the Wilderness, into Tenmile Meadows. Another trailhead is south of the campground and leads deep into the Wilderness, all the way to Sugarloaf Butte.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Walker CabinNezperce National Forest · 7.6 miRainy Day CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 7.8 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Elk City, ID
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
Wildhorse 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 →