About Summit Lake Campground
Summit Lake Campground is a quiet retreat and a short distance from Warm Lake. The campground offers 3 campsites and the small but lovely Summit Lake is a treat. **Natural Features:** The campground is situated in a scenic pine forest, which provides partial shade in the campground. Lunch Creek runs alongside the campground and summer wildflowers are abundant. **Recreation:** The campground is near Johnson Creek and offering great fishing opportunities for cutthroat, rainbow, lake and bull trout. Billy Rice Swim Beach is a short drive from the campground toward Warm Lake. It is on the north side of the lake and is a fun place to go for an afternoon picnic and swim. The surrounding area near Warm Lake offers great hiking, mountain biking, horseback and off-road vehicle riding, and hunting. Check on the Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) of the Cascade District for specific riding areas. The…
- Season: Beginning of June – Mid-September
- Managed by: USFS - Boise National Forest
- Where: 22 mi south of Yellow Pine, ID · 44.64504, -115.58562
Things to do:
Official page for this camp (fees, closures, booking)
Weather by month
Typical daily highs and lows (°F), 1991–2020 NOAA normals. Best months: Jul–Sep (comfortable days, mild nights, little rain). Nights below freezing: Oct–May.
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Trails near camp
| Trail | Open to | From camp | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Lake Cg | ATV road | at camp | 0.1 mi |
| Summit Lake | Hiking | at camp | 0.2 mi |
| Lunch Creek | ATV road | 1.2 mi | 3.3 mi |
| Bear Creek / Warm Lake | Horse, Dirt bike | 2.1 mi | 3.2 mi |
| Rock Creek | Horse, Dirt bike | 2.6 mi | 3.0 mi |
| Warm Bear Saddle | Horse, ATV / OHV, Dirt bike | 2.9 mi | 1.1 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: 24.1 mi
Nearest of each within 25 miles, straight-line.Camps nearby
- Penn Basin Campground 3.3 mi
- Buck Mountain Campground 3.4 mi
- Warm Lake 3.5 mi
- Shoreline 3.9 mi
- Picnic Point (Id) 4.3 mi
- Stolle Meadows Cabin 5.6 mi