About Silver Creek Campground
Silver Creek Campground is located 25 miles north of Garden Valley, Idaho, in beautiful Peace Valley at an elevation of 4,490 feet. Peace Valley offers a variety of great trails. Fishing and hunting are popular activities as well. Peace Valley contains many trails for hiking, mountain biking, as well as horseback and OHV riding. Peace Creek Trail, Silver Creek Summit Trail, and Bull Creek Trail all begin nearby. Silver Creek, Peace Creek, and the nearby Middle Fork Payette River offer good-to-excellent fishing most of the year. Anglers in the area cast for whitefish and rainbow trout. In-season big game hunting for deer, elk and bear is a popular activity in the surrounding mountains. This campground offers paved roads and paved parking spurs, drinking water, and accessible vault toilets. Many single and double campsites are available, all of which are accessible. Each site is equipped…
- Fees: Fee
- Season: End of May – End of September
- Managed by: Boise National Forest, FS
- Where: 14 mi east of Smiths Ferry, ID · 44.33083, -115.80417
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Official page for this camp (fees, closures, booking)
Weather by month
Typical daily highs and lows (°F), 1991–2020 NOAA normals. Best months: Jun–Sep (comfortable days, mild nights, little rain). Nights below freezing: Oct–Apr.
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Trails near camp
| Trail | Open to | From camp | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plunge + Cabin Cr Group | ATV road | at camp | 0.3 mi |
| Silver Creek | ATV road | at camp | 10.5 mi |
| Peace Creek | Horse, Dirt bike | 0.8 mi | 7.3 mi |
| Devil's Slide | Horse | 0.9 mi | 6.3 mi |
| Upper Pine Creek | Horse, ATV / OHV, Dirt bike | 1.4 mi | 10.8 mi |
| Pine Creek Loop | Horse, ATV / OHV, Dirt bike | 1.7 mi | 5.2 mi |
Straight-line distance from camp, from Forest Service, BLM, state and OpenStreetMap trail data.
Good to know
No signal at camp
From the carriers' FCC coverage maps, which tend to be generous.The Milky Way casts shadows and the sky is crowded with stars.
Class 1 of 9, from NASA/NOAA night-light data.Dump station: 16.8 mi
Nearest of each within 25 miles, straight-line.Camps nearby
- Peace Valley Campground 1.9 mi
- Boiling Springs Rental Cabin 3.4 mi
- Campsite · 10 mi E of Smiths Ferry 4.9 mi
- Trail Creek Campground 5.1 mi
- Rattlesnake 5.8 mi
- Campsite · 10 mi E of Smiths Ferry 6.4 mi