Agency-listedUSFSFreeOpen todayRoad season: open (MVUM)
Copper Creek
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ID · 43.60751, -113.92891
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Can I go now? — Copper Creek · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
Open today Season May 1 – Oct 31. Closes after Oct 31. The record adds conditions — read it.
U.S. Forest Service record: “The campground is generally accessible May through October.” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Copper Creek · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 70134 (Copper Creek), 80 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 70134 (Copper Creek), 80 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles May 1 – Nov 30. That season ends after Nov 30.
MVUM record for FR 70134 (Copper Creek): “05/01-11/30” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Copper Creek
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,539 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Copper CreekNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Copper Creek · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- MMechanic19 mi
- EVEV fast charger19 mi
- FFuel19 mi
- GGrocery19 mi
- @Mail19 mi
- WWater21 mi
- HHardware22 mi
- RxPharmacy22 mi
- DDump32 mi
- +Urgent care47 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 21-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 19 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Copper Creek
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
6,539 ft
Ground slope
32.8% · steep
State
ID
Coordinates
43.60751, -113.92891
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Copper Creek · Sawtooth National Forest · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCopper Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelGuffy's · ~19.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesAtkinson's Grocery · ~19.3 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~22.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicSt Luke's Wood River Medical Center · ~21.2 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware - Rancher's Supply · ~21.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Copper Creek · Sawtooth National Forest · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger19.2 mi straight-line SW — Bellevue, ID - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 32 within 100 · 67 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS20.2 mi — ANNEX EVCS BLAINE COUNTY 1, Hailey
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO20.2 mi — ANNEX EVCS BLAINE COUNTY 1, Hailey
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)19.3 mi — SILVER CREEK HOTEL BELLEVUE · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 405686 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Copper Creek · Sawtooth National Forest · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletCopper Creek · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMormon Hill Trailhead · ~2.1 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletIron Bog Campground · ~8.7 mi E · USFS
- RestroomHigh Five Recreation Sites-Precast Restroom 1 Building · ~10.2 mi SW · BoR
Coming out here — Copper Creek · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Copper Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 32.8% — steep. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Copper Creek elsewhere
Other camps near Copper Creek
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Little Wood River Wilderness Study Area~5.6 mi
- Friedman Creek Wilderness Study Area~5.8 mi
- Iron Bog Campground~8.7 mi · fee
- Star Hope Campground~9.4 mi · fee
The unit that manages Copper Creek
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Copper Creek are set by Sawtooth National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Garfield R.S. at 6,580 ft, less than a mile away. That is about the height of this camp, so it is a fair proxy. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Copper Creek
Open season
The campground is generally accessible May through October.
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Free but developed (not dispersed) - review || Water: Sawtooth National Forest's own site page for Copper Creek/Garfield Campground, https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/sawtooth/recreation/copper-creek-garfield-campground (read 2026-08-24; page "Last updated" April 14, 2026), "Facility and Amenity Information > Water": "Potable water is not available at this site.". Corroborated by the USFS EDW Recreation Sites layer (apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0, re-queried live 2026-08-24 for SITE_ID 07677 / MANAGING_ORG 041403), WATER_AVAILABILITY = "No water is available". Page "Seasons of Use": "The campground is generally accessible May through October." -- that is the season of the SITE, not a statement about when the water is turned on. NOTE ON THE MATCH: our lead is named "Copper Creek" and the forest's page is titled "Copper Creek/Garfield Campground" -- the two were joined on coordinates (0.001 mi apart), not on the name. No natural water anywhere near this site is claimed to be potable. Agency record only -- not field-verified. Nightshift fire 1680 (Idaho batch 2).
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the page.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Copper Creek
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Copper Creek
Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Getting unstuck →All field notes →