Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Grandview Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ID · 44.17431, -111.31321
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Grandview Campground · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 20342 (Grandview Campground), 70 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 20342 (Grandview Campground), 70 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 20342 (Grandview Campground): “01/01-12/31” 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 Grandview Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,932 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Grandview CampgroundNIFC · 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 Grandview Campground · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater4 mi
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- MMechanic19 mi
- RxPharmacy23 mi
- +Urgent care31 mi
- ShShower32 mi
- OOutfitter34 mi
- DDump35 mi
- AAir-up54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 10 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 — Grandview Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,932 ft
Ground slope
4.5% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~8.7 mi · other track
State
ID
Coordinates
44.17431, -111.31321
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Grandview Campground · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureHenrys Fork · ~0.3 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townWarm River · ~3.7 mi
- Nearest rail line~8.7 mi · other track
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~3.8 mi
- FuelFuel · ~9.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesJacksons · ~9.7 mi
- PharmacyFalls Drug · ~23.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicOld Faithful Clinic · ~30.8 mi
- HardwareHG Lumber and Hardware · ~9.8 mi
EV charging — from Grandview Campground · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger11.8 mi straight-line SW — Fall River Office, Ashton, ID (at a parking lot) · Non-Networked · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-06-06 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 23 within 100 · 48 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)34.9 mi — West Yellowstone, MT - Tesla Supercharger, West Yellowstone
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO17.4 mi — Island Park City Offices, Island Park
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)19.7 mi — SpringHill Suites Island Park Yellowstone · Blink Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — 511 Main Pizzeria and Soda Fountain - Tesla Destination, Ashton, 9.7 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.48 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 319564 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Grandview Campground · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletGrandview Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLower Mesa Falls · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletUpper Mesa Falls · ~1.2 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBear Gulch Trailhead · ~1.9 mi SE · USFS
Coming out here — Grandview Campground · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Henrys Fork as a perennial stream, ~0.3 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 4.5% — gentle. 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 ~8.7 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. No track the atlas classes as a main line is mapped within 10 mi. 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.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Grandview Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Grandview Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Warm River Campground~3.7 mi · fee
- Pole Bridge Dispersed Camping~6.3 mi
- Riverside Campground~9.4 mi · fee
- Cave Falls Campground~15.1 mi · fee
The unit that manages Grandview Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Grandview Campground are set by Caribou-Targhee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Grandview Campground
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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-26: the page contradicts itself on the single-site rate -- its Fee Site and Info block reads 'Single Site (Electric): $26 per night' and four lines below it a season table reads 'Single Site (electric) $ 31.00'. The camp's recreation.gov listing (id 233391, Grandview Campground (Idaho), 0.059 mi from this pin, current season 2026-05-22 to 2026-09-27) breaks the tie at $31 for a standard electric site, so budget $31. Both channels agree on the double electric site at $52, and the page adds $7 per additional vehicle. All nine sites have 15/30/50-amp electric hookups. After the season the campground is weather-dependent first-come/first-served with no fee, no toilets and no water -- a seasonal condition, not a free campground, so this stays flagged as a fee site. Sources: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/caribou-targhee/recreation/grandview-campground (page last updated June 30, 2026) and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233391.
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 Grandview 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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- 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 — Grandview Campground
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Dumping grey & black →Reading the aerial →All field notes →