About Warm Lake
Warm Lake Campground is near the eastern shore of beautiful Warm Lake, at an elevation of 5,300 feet. Visitors enjoy boating, fishing, swimming, hiking and viewing local wildlife. Warm Lake offers great fishing opportunities for cutthroat, rainbow, lake and bull trout. Boating, canoeing and swimming are popular activities. A developed swim beach is available less than a quarter-mile away, at Warm Lake Lodge. Billy Rice Swim Beach is just over a mile from the campground, on the north side of the lake. The area offers a day-use site for picnicking and swimming. A boat ramp is located at nearby Shoreline Campground. The surrounding area offers great hiking, mountain biking, horseback and off-road vehicle riding, and hunting. The WeWuKiye (Wa Wu Kia) Trail No. 252 was recently built and can be accessed at Shoreline Campground. It is popular for hiking and mountain biking. For off-road…
- Season: Mid-May – Mid-Sepember
- Managed by: Boise National Forest, FS
- Where: 22 mi northeast of Cascade, ID · 44.65222, -115.65556
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: Jun–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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warm Lake Cg-North | ATV road | at camp | 0.1 mi |
| Warm Lake Cg Access | ATV road | 0.1 mi | 0.3 mi |
| Bear Creek / Warm Lake | Horse, Dirt bike | 1.1 mi | 3.2 mi |
| Kline Mountain South | Horse, ATV / OHV, Dirt bike | 1.2 mi | 1.4 mi |
| Kline Mountain Loop | Horse | 1.3 mi | 3.6 mi |
| Warm Bear Saddle | Horse, ATV / OHV, Dirt bike | 1.5 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: 21.2 mi
Nearest of each within 25 miles, straight-line.Camps nearby
- Shoreline 0.5 mi
- Picnic Point (Id) 0.8 mi
- South Fork Salmon River Campground 2.3 mi
- Summit Lake Campground 3.5 mi
- Stolle Meadows Cabin 4.2 mi
- Penny Springs Campground 4.5 mi