About this place
The Little Jacks Creek Wilderness runs to more than 51,000 acres in all.
The Owyhee Canyonlands is a huge, remote area spread across eastern Oregon, southwestern Idaho and northern Nevada. Deep canyons are cut into that high desert plateau by the Owyhee, the Bruneau and the Jarbidge Rivers.
Those rivers suit boaters of nearly every level, and they offer solitude that is hard to match anywhere, in canyons of unusual shape and beauty.
There are placid pools and turbulent whitewater. There are vertical cliffs and steep grassy slopes. There are California bighorn sheep. There is the Bruneau River phlox.
The facts
- Cost
- Free to camp
- Type
- Open area. Camp anywhere within it
- Managed by
- Bureau of Land Management
Getting there
From Grand View, head east two miles to Mud Flat Road, also signed as the Owyhee Uplands Backcountry Byway. Follow it twenty miles to the Little Jacks Creek Wilderness and the Perjue Canyon trailhead, on your left. At mile 18 you pass a wilderness kiosk by the vault toilet at the Poison Creek Recreation site.
Coordinates 42.73952, -116.31424
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What is near here
A few more of our own spots are within reach of this one, along with some better-known places.
- Little Jacks Creek Wild and Scenic River Directions
- Pole Creek Wilderness Area Directions
- Crater Rings Directions
- Cottonwood Creek Wild and Scenic River 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
- Grand View, ID Directions
- Mountain Home, ID Directions
Mountain Home 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.
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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.