Big Wood River dispersed
nearest town: Ketchum ID
part of: Sawtooth National Forest
A Forest Service Campground in the Idaho region.
Number of visits: 1
GPS: 43.8127,-114.5879
Bathroom: • Water: no
20 miles north of Ketchum Route 75 opens up into a beautiful, wide valley. The road follows the west side, the Big Wood River is on the east side, and along here there is a big, flat open area in between, with good-ish gravel roads over to the edge of the river where many dispersed campsites are set up.
Pretty cool!
This is the same river that flows through Ketchum and Sun Valley.
Some ATT cellphone reception but not great.
Notes on each visit (posted cost • senior cost):
I turned off at the second big field, where there is a gravel pit. I am the second site north of the gravel pit. First site turns out to be a sheepherder's layover. I know this because many sheep, the dogs, the man and his horse all showed up in the morning!