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Goodenough Creek Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · ID · 42.65434, -112.28174
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
What the record says about the site — Goodenough Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · ID
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Goodenough Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,432 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Goodenough Creek CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Goodenough Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · ID
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel4 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- EVEV fast charger4 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- WWater10 mi
- DDump15 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- MMechanic16 mi
- RxPharmacy17 mi
- OOutfitter17 mi
- ShShower21 mi
- +Urgent care27 mi
- LLaundry30 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 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 — Goodenough Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
5,432 ft
Ground slope
27.5% · steep
Nearest rail line
~4.2 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~3.6 mi · US Hwy 30
State
ID
Coordinates
42.65434, -112.28174
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around Goodenough Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureGoodenough Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townMcCammon · ~4.5 mi
- Nearest rail line~4.2 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~3.6 mi · US Hwy 30
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~4.7 mi
- FuelMaverik · ~14.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationPocatello's public and free dump station and drinking water · ~15.3 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~3.8 mi
- PharmacyAlbertsons Pharmacy · ~16.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicPortneuf Medical Center · ~16.7 mi
- HardwareAffordable Supply · ~16.1 mi
EV charging — from Goodenough Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger3.8 mi straight-line E — Flying J 641, Mccammon, ID · eVgo Network · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach7 within 25 mi · 11 within 50 · 48 within 100 · 148 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)18.6 mi — Pocatello, ID - Tesla Supercharger, Pocatello
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO18.1 mi — Hirning Buick GMC, Pocatello
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)17.1 mi — Fairfield by Marriott, Pocatello, ID · Blink 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 374739 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Goodenough Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletGoodenough Creek Campground - Vault Toilet 2 · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletGoodenough Creek Campground - Vault Toilet 1 · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletGoodenough Creek Campground - Vault Toilet 3 · ~0.2 mi W · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletScout Mountain Warming Shelter · ~4.7 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Goodenough Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · ID
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Goodenough Creek as a perennial stream, under 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 27.5% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~4.2 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- US Hwy 30 is mapped ~3.6 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Goodenough Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Goodenough Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Scout Mountain~4.7 mi · fee
- Mink Creek Group Site~8.5 mi · fee
- Big Springs Campground~12.2 mi · fee
- Petticoat Peak Wilderness Study Area~16.2 mi
The unit that manages Goodenough Creek Campground
Goodenough Creek Campground is in the Pocatello Field Office, Idaho Falls District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Pebble Creek at 6,520 ft, about 12 miles away. It sits about 1,088 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. 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 — Goodenough Creek Campground
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Goodenough Creek Campground
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.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- 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 — Goodenough Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Cold-weather camping →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →