Boondocking in the Sawtooth National Forest

The Sawtooth Mountains are gorgeous! They are also rather remote but that doesn't stop the nature lovers who came to camp, fish, hike, and play in the lakes and streams. It gets very busy in the summer. In 2020 our friends who were camp hosts at Mt Heyburn Campground invited us to share their campsite and we spent a week enjoying their company and walking/rolling along the shores of beautiful Redfish Lake. This year we didn't try to get reservations or attempt to snag a first come/first serve site at the lake. Instead we boondocked in a meadow about 16 miles north of the little tourist town of Stanley. 

This campsite is very pretty. A short gravel road travels along a small stream at the edge of a meadow. There are three or four good sized camping spots where any RV will fit. It's just off of Route 21 so there's  traffic noise that dies down at night. We were happy to see that nobody had been driving through the meadow and the grass and flowers were undisturbed.

 

 If all the meadow spots are taken there's a much larger booncocking area a few hundred feet north off of Route 21. Several forest roads loop around giving campers a choice of sites. This area gets more people so it's a bit more worn than the meadow where we camped. 

The ground is hard packed so rolling is fairly easy. The roads make good walking and rolling trails. Forest  44.36001, -115.1393