The Forks Campground
- No fees.
- fee
- May–Jun, Aug–Sep
- best months
- At 5,440 ft
- Jarbidge Field Office
The Forks Campground is a small Bureau of Land Management site on the East Fork of the Jarbidge Wild and Scenic River, about two miles north of Murphy Hot Springs and across from the Jarbidge River Put-in. It sits within the Jarbidge Field Office of the BLM, and two-wheel drive vehicles are enough to reach it. Summer is the most comfortable time to visit. Typical averages from a nearby weather station at Murphy Hot Springs show July highs around 86°F with lows near 46°F, while September cools to highs in the upper 70s and has the fewest wet days of the year. Juniper Grove Campground is less than a mile away, and Big Cottonwood Campground is about 1.5 miles off. Paddlers can head to the Jarbidge River, roughly 5 miles away, or the East Fork Jarbidge River, about 9 miles away.
- Juniper Grove CampgroundCamping0.8 mi
- Big Cottonwood CampgroundCamping1.5 mi
Jarbidge RiverCanoeingPhoto: Famartin, CC BY-SA 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)4.8 mi- Buck CreekCanoeing7.3 mi
- ROBINSON HOLE CUTOFFHiking8.3 mi
- Robinson Hole to 3 Day CreekHiking8.5 mi
- East Fork Jarbidge RiverCanoeing8.6 mi
Clover TrailHikingPhoto: Matt Lavin, CC BY-SA 2.0 (via Flickr)8.8 mi
Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)
- Juniper Grove CampgroundCamping · ~1 min drive
- Big Cottonwood CampgroundCamping · ~3 min drive
- Sawmill CampgroundCamping · ~19 min drive
- Pavlak CampgroundCamping · ~23 min drive
- Upper Bluster CampgroundCamping · ~23 min drive
- Pine Creek CampgroundCamping · ~24 min drive
- Slide Creek CampgroundCamping · ~24 min drive
- Big Bend CampgroundCamping · ~42 min drive
- Wildhorse Crossing CampgroundCamping · ~58 min drive
- Lud Drexler Park CampgroundCamping · ~1h 2m drive
Best time to visit The Forks Campground
Best months: May–June and August–September. Best months have typical highs of 55–85 °F, lows of 30 °F or warmer (32 °F where the station doesn't record snow), at most one snowy day and no more than 12 wet days.
Jan
41° / 18°
8 wet
Feb
43° / 19°
8 wet
Mar
50° / 24°
10 wet
Apr
55° / 28°
11 wet
May
65° / 35°
11 wet
Jun
75° / 40°
7 wet
Jul
86° / 46°
5 wet
Aug
85° / 45°
5 wet
Sep
77° / 37°
5 wet
Oct
62° / 29°
7 wet
Nov
48° / 22°
8 wet
Dec
40° / 16°
8 wet
Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Murphy (Desert) Hot Springs, ID, 2 mi away at 5,152 ft. This station doesn't record snowfall. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
