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Big Trinity Lake Campground is within the beautiful Trinity Recreation Area. There are 17 campsites on Big Trinity Lake and there are more sites near the beautiful smaller lakes in Rainbow Basin. Trinity Lake camping offers a quiet retreat in a beautiful high alpine landscape. The sites are situated within a popular summer recreation area with many activities to enjoy.
From Boise, Idaho, travel east on Interstate 84 (I-84) to Mountain Home, Idaho. At the I-84 and State Highway 20 junction, take Highway 20 east for 35 miles to Pine/Featherville turnoff. Travel north on Forest Highway 61 for 29 miles to Forest Service (FS) road 172. Proceed 15 miles northwest to FS road 129. Continue 3 miles to the Guard Station junction. The roadway is paved up to the junction of FS road 172. FS road 172 is native material (dirt) and trailer traffic is not recommended. There are signs noting each of the junctions.
Beautiful campground. Very peaceful. Lucked out and saw an osprey fishing. Spot 17 is awesome. There is a little creek flowing next to it. Ice cold water. I stepped into the lake and had muck up to my knee. So much for wading. There are sections of the road with very fine and deep moon dust.
Nice little hike to get there but it was a fun night of fishing and getting eaten alive by mosquitoes.
Beautiful place! The only downfall are the constant ATV's driving up from Anderson reservoir.
Beautiful spot, 10$ per night for camping. Fishing was poor -1 star for that. The road from Featherville is far easier than the road from Anderson Ranch (which requires 4 wheel drive and clearance).
I went on a Monday, so the place was almost totally deserted- very nice. The lake and scenery are beautiful and the fishing was good. This campground is for sleeping in tents, there really isn't any flat ground except for where it has been leveled for tents. I really didn't see anywhere you could park a trailer or larger RV. The campground was clean- lots of firewood stacked everywhere- though there wasn't anyone else in the campground- I was in on the SW end of the lake.
The drive up is rough, need good clearance, though I did see a few people with horse trailers on the way- those horses had to take a beating. Also- the road from Fall Creek up is still closed, you need to go through Pine-Featherville.
