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Huckleberry Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · ID · 47.26878, -116.08539
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Huckleberry Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,235 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Huckleberry 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 Huckleberry 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
- DDump0 mi
- @Mail13 mi
- GGrocery13 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- OOutfitter16 mi
- FFuel16 mi
- RxPharmacy16 mi
- LLaundry16 mi
- MMechanic16 mi
- PPropane18 mi
- +Urgent care19 mi
- EVEV fast charger19 mi
- ShShower40 mi
- WWater43 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 43-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 13 mi out.
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 — Huckleberry Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
2,235 ft
Ground slope
1.4% · flat
State
ID
Coordinates
47.26878, -116.08539
Cost
Fee · priced on the land manager's own page (recreation.gov, read 2026-09-18)
Nearby & resupply — around Huckleberry Campground · Bureau of Land Management · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSaint Joe River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townHerrick · ~1.0 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelConoco · ~18.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~0.2 mi
- GroceriesAvery Store & Motel · ~13.2 mi
- PharmacyKohal's · ~16.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicClinic · ~18.7 mi
EV charging — from Huckleberry Campground · Bureau of Land Management · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger19.3 mi straight-line N — 76 Station - Tesla Supercharger, Kellogg, ID (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 68 within 100 · 97 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS19.6 mi — Walmart 4249 (Smelterville, ID), Smelterville
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO19.6 mi — Walmart 4249 (Smelterville, ID), Smelterville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)42.9 mi — The Coeur D'Alene Resort - Tesla Destination (at a hotel) · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.55 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 463501 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Huckleberry Campground · Bureau of Land Management · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletHuckleberry Cg - Vault Toilet #3 · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletHuckleberry Cg - Vault Toilet #4 · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletHuckleberry Cg - Vault Toilet #5 · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletHuckleberry Cg - Vault Toilet #2 · at this camp · BLM
Coming out here — Huckleberry Campground · Bureau of Land Management · ID
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Saint Joe River as a perennial river, ~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 1.4% — flat. 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 Huckleberry Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Huckleberry Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Ccc Campsite And Trailhead~2.1 mi
- Big Creek~2.9 mi · fee
- Marble Creek~4.7 mi
- Donkey Creek~5.8 mi
The unit that manages Huckleberry Campground
Huckleberry Campground is in the Coeur d'Alene Field Office, Coeur d'Alene 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 Mica Creek at 4,480 ft, about 12 miles away. It sits about 2,245 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 — Huckleberry Campground
Fee note
$60 a night per the Recreation.gov page, read 18 Sep 2026: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/273785
Reserve
https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/273785
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) | Fee 2026-09-18: $60 per night, by site type and season (Recreation.gov rates table). Source: https://www.recreation.gov/api/camps/campgrounds/273785/rates (fee_backfill, figure verified on that page).
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 Huckleberry 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 — Huckleberry Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Cold-weather camping →Off-grid communication →All field notes →