Customer Reviews

Camping Idaho (Regional Camping Series)

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The format of this series of guides provides for really limited information, just a list of standard information about public campgrounds.

We only looked at three campgrounds from this book, and in all cases the list of information about them had significant errors.

For example, we stayed in space 25 of a campground listed as having 15 spaces; two campgrounds that we drove to were down dirt roads while the book stated that they were down paved roads; one of these was down a completely different road than the book said.

These might seem like nitpicking complaints about insignificant details, but there is nothing in the book but insignificant details.

This camping guide was okay, but is getting outdated. It was done in 2005, and some of the campgrounds have changed significantly since then. (Lake Cascade's Ridgeview now has hookups). Not a lot of detail on road conditions. No information on any private campgrounds, so most of this you could find online with a trip to the Forest Service and State Parks websites. If you are camping in Southwest Idaho, there is an Idaho Statesman camping guide that has a lot more information and details and came out in 2009, so it's much more up to date.

I just moved to Idaho, so wanted to get an idea of places to camp. It's a good book, I got a lot of information from it.