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Glacier View Campground is located next to beautiful Redfish Lake, beneath the Sawtooth Mountain Range, at an elevation of 6,500 feet.
Glacier View is in the heart of the beautiful Sawtooth National Recreation Area, where outdoor activities abound.
Redfish Lake offers excellent boating, water skiing, canoeing, kayaking and fishing for rainbow trout and Kokanee salmon. Little Redfish Lake is just down the road, offering additional fishing and canoeing.
The Redfish Lake Visitor Center is within 1/4-mile, offering interpretive activities, evening programs and wildlife, geology and historical exhibits.
The campground offers several family sites, many with views of the lake and rugged Mount Heyburn. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs throughout the site are paved.
Younger visitors love the campground's two playgrounds. Sandy Beach Boat Ramp is less than a mile away and an RV dump station is just over a mile away.
Summer wildflowers are plentiful, lodgepole pines provide partial shade and Fishhook Creek is nearby. Temperatures are cool, with an average summer high of 78 degrees and a low of 40 degrees.
The Sawtooth National Recreation Area offers a myriad of excellent hiking and biking opportunities; an estimated 750 miles of trails crisscross the valley and surrounding mountains.
Alpine Way, Fishhook Creek, Redfish Lake Creek and Bench Lakes Trails all offer trailheads in the immediate area. The Idaho Centennial Trail passes nearby.
The Salmon River offers excellent fishing for rainbow trout, Westslope cutthroat trout and occasional hybrid cutbows and bull trout.
Popular area events include an Arts and Crafts Fair in July, and Wagon Days, Salmon Festival, Quilt Fair, and Fireman's Ball in September.
From Stanley, Idaho, take State Highway 75 south approximately 4 miles. Go west onto Forest Road 214. Turn left at Glacier View Campground entrance sign.
06/27/21 I have changed my rating. I am filing a comaint against the campground concessionaire after our visit last week.
This is a great Campground. The Campground hosts are phenomenal. Lots of Wildlife very accustomed to humans that will walk right into your camp. Keep your food picked up and put away. Beautiful views of the Saw tooth mountains and redfish Lake. Walking distance to the lodge. I'm giving this a three solely based on the parking issues and the forest Service as well as the campground concessionaire they make extra parking very difficult and having extra vehicles or people who come and go throughout a long-stay everyone has to be documented in accounted for. I get that they have to account for people but they make it very difficult for their Campground host to keep track with all the paperwork that's required of them. We have come up with a solution with the spreadsheet so that they know who all is in our group and what areas are we parking in so they know whose cars are who s. It is ridiculous that you pay $8 a day to park the car in the campground and then drive three blocks down 2 North Point Beach where you have to pay another $8 to park there or if you go to Point Beach you have to pay a another $8 to park there. The Operators at Redfish Lake Lodge are phenomenal.
This campground has very nice plots to rent with excellent facilities! It is a stones throw from the Goat Trail which has views that are totally worth the intense hike up to Goat Lake.
Nice and convenient to red fish lake. Too many inconsiderate generator users for my taste. What ever happened to piece and quiet in the outdoors? Replaced by people sitting in their campers watching TV with their generator blasting the neighbors.
This campground is one of the most beautiful campgrounds you'll find; well maintained, clean, spacious with partial shade or full shade, the camp hosts, the Edmunds are doing a fabulous job at maintaining it! We were there over Memorial weekend, had spot#63 C loop and had a fantastic time!
Great dry campground. Plenty of space and lots of trees between spots. Feels very private. Each spot has a trailer spot and a tent pad. There are flushing toilets throughout the grounds and potable water spigots as well. I don't think any of the spots are directly on the lake but a short walk, quick bike ride or car ride down to the day use area is easy access to the water, very close. Red Fish Lake itself is awesome. Super clear water and gorgeous views of the sawtooths. Another nice thing is there are hiking / mountain biking trails throughout the campground. The town of Stanley is about a 10 min or so drive away that has some restaurants, a small mercantile and a gas station. Red Fish Lake Lodge is also a short bike / car ride away and they have aquatic rentals and a bar there along with a nice beach area. All in all, very nice campground and awesome lake. We will probably go back next year.
