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Redfish Inlet Cg
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ID · 44.09941, -114.95221
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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? — Redfish Inlet Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
Open today Season May 1 – Sep 30. Closes after Sep 30.
U.S. Forest Service record: “May - September” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Redfish Inlet Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
No MVUM road within 1 mi of the pin; access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 Redfish Inlet Cg
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,551 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Redfish Inlet CgNIFC · 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 Redfish Inlet Cg · 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
- LLaundry4 mi
- ShShower4 mi
- FFuel8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- @Mail30 mi
- WWater36 mi
- RxPharmacy41 mi
- +Urgent care46 mi
- DDump48 mi
- EVEV fast charger51 mi
- MMechanic54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 36-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 8 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 51-mi run (and back).
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 — Redfish Inlet Cg
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
6,551 ft
State
ID
Coordinates
44.09941, -114.95221
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Redfish Inlet Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureRedfish Lake · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)Lily Lake (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townStanley · ~8.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~26.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesMountain Village Mercantile · ~8.1 mi
EV charging — from Redfish Inlet Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger51.0 mi straight-line SE — Hailey, ID (at a public site) · RIVIAN_ADVENTURE · CCS · 6 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · none within 50 · 36 within 100 · 62 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)55.1 mi — Bellevue, ID - Tesla Supercharger, Bellevue
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO51.3 mi — ANNEX EVCS BLAINE COUNTY 1, Hailey
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.8 mi — Redfish Lake Lodge, Stanley, ID (at a campground) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-10-13 · 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 398508 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Redfish Inlet Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletRedfish Inlet Cg · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSockeye Cg · ~2.8 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPoint Cg · ~3.1 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMount Heyburn Cg · ~3.1 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Redfish Inlet Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Redfish Lake as a perennial lake or pond, 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.
- 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 Redfish Inlet Cg elsewhere
Other camps near Redfish Inlet Cg
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Sockeye Cg~2.8 mi · fee
- Point Cg~3.1 mi · fee
- Mount Heyburn Cg~3.1 mi · fee
- Outlet Cg~3.6 mi · fee
The unit that manages Redfish Inlet Cg
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Redfish Inlet Cg are set by Sawtooth National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Redfish Inlet Cg
Open season
May - September
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 Redfish Inlet Campground, https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/sawtooth/recreation/redfish-inlet-campground (read 2026-08-24; page "Last updated" July 7, 2025), "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 07759 / MANAGING_ORG 041404), WATER_AVAILABILITY = "No water is available". Page "Seasons of Use": "May - September" -- that is the season of the SITE, not a statement about when the water is turned on. 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 Redfish Inlet Cg
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
- 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 — Redfish Inlet Cg
Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Getting unstuck →All field notes →