8 Campsites near Optimist Park
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Bruneau Dunes
Bruneau, Idaho
15.4 miles SNorth America's tallest single-structure sand dune rises 470 feet above twin lakes, with stargazing at Idaho's only public observatory on select evenings nearby.
Camp, Canoe, Hike, Horseback
Little Camas Reservoir
Mountain Home
22.4 miles NEIrrigation reservoir on the western Camas Prairie northeast of Mountain Home, with a free Forest Service boat ramp, primitive shoreline camping and trout fishing. Water levels swing hard, and there is no trout stocking in 2026.
Camp, Canoe, Kayak
Anderson Ranch Reservoir
Pine
26.1 miles NEA 14-mile Reclamation reservoir on the South Fork Boise River northeast of Mountain Home, best known for kokanee fishing. This pin marks the free Fall Creek Boat Ramp on the west shore, with free Forest Service campgrounds a short drive away.
Camp, Canoe, Hike, Kayak, Swim
Irish Boat Ramps
Boise, Idaho
34.1 miles NWA year-round scramble starting at a Boise-area reservoir and climbing steeply up an old Jeep road along a ridgeline — the first 1.5 miles are very steep, with bumps and pine trees along the way.
Camp
Badger Creek Campground
Boise City-Nampa, ID, Idaho
36.5 miles NA small 5-site riverside campground at 3,200-foot elevation on the Middle Fork of the Boise River, with fishing for rainbow, cutthroat, and whitefish and access to the William Pogue National Recreational Trail nearby.
Camp
Loftus Hot Spring
Mountain Home, Idaho
41.2 miles NLoftus Hot Spring is a free Boise National Forest soak on the Middle Fork Boise River, with a hot waterfall between ~110F and ~104F pools.
Camp, Hot Springs
McKinney Butte Lava Tubes
Gooding, Idaho
45.7 miles ETwo forking lava tubes near Bliss — one open to anyone, the other gated (BLM permit required) — that survived the Bonneville Flood and a 1993 landslide.
Camp, Cave
Mormon Reservoir
Fairfield
47.6 miles EIrrigation reservoir on McKinney Creek about five miles south of Fairfield, with a free Idaho Fish and Game boat ramp, docks, toilets and primitive camping. It is stocked with rainbow trout, but the water drops hard by late summer and in dry years.
Camp, Canoe, Kayak
