About this place
Free, and you can't reserve it. Turn up, and if there's room, you're in.
The camping is primitive. That means flat dirt and whatever you hauled in with you. No table, no fire ring, no water.
The facts
- Cost
- Camping fee not confirmed
- Stay limit
- 14 days
- Type
- Specific campsite
- Managed by
- Bureau of Land Management
Rules and restrictions
The rules are posted on a board at the site. Read it before you unpack. What's on that board is what counts, and it changes on the ground long before anybody updates a website.
No trash cans out here. Everything that arrives with you leaves with you.
Getting there
The site is 3 miles east of Swan Lake.
Coordinates 42.32555556, -111.9413889
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What is near here
There is another spot of ours within reach, and some better-known places further out.
- Red Rock Pass Directions
- Petticoat Peak Wilderness Study Area Directions
- Naomi Peak Directions
- Minnetonka Cave Directions
- Bear Lake Directions
Every distance on this page is the driving distance. A short distance can still take a long time. The road may be closed for the season, covered in snow, or washed out. Many of these roads are dirt. Plan your route before you leave home. Out here there is often no phone signal to look it up on the way.
Nearest town and supplies
- Oxford, ID Directions
- Preston, ID Directions
Preston is big enough that you’d normally expect fuel and somewhere to buy food. Nobody from here has been to check, so don’t count on it if you’re running low.
Have you been here?
Fees and access change, and the records do not always keep up. If you have been, tell us what you found.
Thank you, that is recorded. It helps the next person.
Add road notes for this site
The thing we cannot get from any government record is what the drive in is actually like. If you have done it, this is the most useful thing you can leave behind. We read everything before it appears, and we print a first name with it if you give one.
Thank you. A person will read it before it goes on the page.
Where this information comes from
The description on this page is ours. The facts in it, and the fee and facility details below it, come from the Bureau of Land Management’s own records, read in August 2026; opened and read by a person on 2026-08-27.