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Maiden Rock

Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ID · 48.09919, -116.51005
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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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
USGS topographic map of Maiden Rock
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Aerial image of Maiden Rock
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Weather outlook — at Maiden Rock
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,074 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Maiden RockNIFC · 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 Maiden Rock · Idaho Panhandle National Forests · ID

15 MI30 MI60 MIYOUR CAMPN ↑Water · 9 miWDump · 10 miDChevron · Propane · 32 miPChevron · Fuel · 5 miFFood Mart · Grocery · 5 miGSandpoint Super Drug · Pharmacy · 12 miRxPeck Landscape Supplies and Farm Store · Hardware · 7 miHA-10 Autobody · Mechanic · 8 miMMiller' Maytag Laundromat · Laundry · 19 miLShower · 25 miShKaniksu Community Health · Urgent care · 13 mi+North 40 · Outfitter · 15 miOMail · 8 mi@Northern Lights Inc · EV fast charger · 8 miEV
Straight-line miles · bearings approx · roads run longer
Nearest of each
  • FFuel5 mi
  • GGrocery5 mi
  • HHardware7 mi
  • @Mail8 mi
  • MMechanic8 mi
  • EVEV fast charger8 mi
  • WWater9 mi
  • DDump10 mi
  • RxPharmacy12 mi
  • +Urgent care13 mi
  • OOutfitter15 mi
  • LLaundry19 mi
  • ShShower25 mi
  • PPropane32 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water

The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Maiden Rock

Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
2,074 ft
State
ID
Coordinates
48.09919, -116.51005
Cost
Free

Nearby & resupply — around Maiden Rock · Idaho Panhandle National Forests · ID (OpenStreetMap)

  • Nearest townTalache · ~3.1 mi
  • Drinking waterDrinking water · ~9.2 mi
  • FuelConoco · ~7.7 mi
  • Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
  • GroceriesConoco · ~7.7 mi
  • PharmacySeeber's Pharmacy & Gifts · ~25.2 mi
  • Hospital / clinicBonner County Hospital · ~12.5 mi
  • HardwareHayden Ace Hardware · ~26.9 mi

EV charging — from Maiden Rock · Idaho Panhandle National Forests · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)

Nearby restrooms — around Maiden Rock · Idaho Panhandle National Forests · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)

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Other camps near Maiden Rock

If this one is full, gated or washed out.

The unit that manages Maiden Rock

Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Maiden Rock are set by Idaho Panhandle National Forests, not by the campsite — check there before you go.

Snow, and when this opens

The nearest automatic snow station is Mosquito Ridge at 5,270 ft, about 13 miles away. It sits about 3,196 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 — Maiden Rock

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 2026-08-24 (nightshift fire 120): USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse Recreation Sites layer (apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0), extract cached locally as data\_mt_water_edw.json, objectid 2376514, site "MAIDEN ROCK" (recreation area "MAIDEN ROCK"), WATER_AVAILABILITY = "No, drinking water is not provided". Matched to this camp on coordinates (0.0008 mi from the agency point). Agency record only -- not field-verified, and no natural water here is claimed to be potable.
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 Maiden Rock

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.

Before you go — Maiden Rock

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