Camping at Huckleberry Campground, Idaho

North Idaho offers many beautiful places to explore! Our family especially enjoys camping with our family and friends in our RV or tent. We also enjoy visiting the lakes, hiking, and floating the rivers. Huckleberry Campground in Idaho is a beautiful campground that has spacious campsites and easy river access for swimming, kayaking, or floating. We’ve made many awesome memories at this campground over the past few years.

Spacious Group Campsites

One of my favorite things about camping is spending time with my husband Andy and our kids. We decided to invest in an RV a few years ago so that we could easily camp with young children. Although an RV has space for daytime naps and a secure sleeping environment, it also requires a big campsite. Huckleberry Campground has many of these spacious campsites as well as group campsites, which allow friends with several RVs to camp together.

Convenient Access to the St. Joe River

Just down the path from this group campsite pictured above, the St. Joe River flows in July at perfect speed and depth for floating in inflatable tubes. Our kids also enjoy splashing in the river, finding frogs, and kayaking through the slow moving water.

Several of the campsites at Huckleberry Campground in Idaho are situated right on the bank of the St. Joe River. Huckleberry Campground has 33 camp sites which are ideal for RV camping, trailer camping, or tent camping.

Huckleberry Campground Idaho

Additionally, Huckleberry Campground has all the camping essentials; spacious camp sites, close river access, large trees overhead, picnic tables and benches, firepits, distance from a main road, and a quiet camping loop for kids to ride bikes. We’ve really enjoyed our camping trips at this North Idaho campground.

One year, our family brought our toy hauler RV trailer, RZR side by side offroad vehicle, and several kids bikes. We took the RZR to the nearby mountains and enjoyed exploring the offroad trails. Back at our camp site, our kids rode their bikes around the campground loop. After riding bikes, we enjoyed sitting around a campfire in our camp chairs and roasting hot dogs and marshmallows.

RV Camping

One of the main benefits of camping in an RV is that we can bring our home on wheels on adventures. An RV also makes camping with young kids easier. Our family has gone camping in Idaho at Huckleberry Campground, at Priest Lake, and at Farragut State Park. We’ve also taken our RV to Oregon and Arizona. A big RV or toy hauler like ours requires a large campsite, which Huckleberry Campground has plenty of! Just a 90 minute drive from Coeur d’Alene, Huckleberry Campground is located 29 miles east of St. Maries on the banks of the St. Joe River.

Quality Family Time

In addition to fun memories and easy exploring, camping with kids also creates quality family time. We’ve learned new skills, celebrated birthdays, and enjoyed simple summer days with our kids while camping. We create quality family time by bringing board games, making yummy camp food, and playing outside.

Furthermore, we sometimes bring fun kids camping activities. Our kids sometimes paint rocks with acrylic craft paint or play with bubbles. If we do watch a movie, we often watch it outside the trailer after dark. We sit in camp chairs and enjoy snacks and drinks. Our RV toy hauler has an exterior tv screen for an outdoor movie watch party!

Camping at Huckleberry Campground in 2020 and celebrating my husband Andy’s birthday.

Huckleberry Campground Idaho

Location: Huckleberry Campground is located near Calder, Idaho, 29 miles east of St. Maries on the banks of the St. Joe River. It also near off-roading mountain trails.

Camping facilities: Huckleberry Campground has amenities like picnic tables, fire rings, and vault toilets. Campsites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The earlier you make a camping reservation, the best chance you’ll have of getting the dates you want.

Seasonal access: Campsites at Huckleberry Campground in Idaho can be reserved from May to October, and availability is opened for reservations six months in advance.

Peaceful atmosphere: Huckleberry Campground is very peaceful and serene environment. Visitors will near the nearby river’s sounds, as well as wildlife and natural sounds at night. The stars are also very bright in the night sky, due to this campground’s remote location.

Camping Activities

Outdoor activities: This camping area is great for many outdoor activities including hiking, fishing, kayaking, swimming, bird watching, bike riding, and relaxing. In mid-summer, the nearby St. Joe River runs at a perfect depth and speed for floating in inflatable tubes down the river.

Huckleberries: In late July and August, you can find huckleberries in many parts of North Idaho, often in higher elevation forest areas.

Wildlife: This area is home to local animals such as deer, elk, moose, various fish, squirrels, rabbits, racoons, mice and more species.

Nearby attractions: As mentioned, nearby logging trails are great for off-road riding, side by sides, dirt bikes and ATVs. Visitors could also try mountain biking on the gravel trails. Kayaking and river floating is popular on the St. Joe River. 29 miles away, the small town of  St. Maries (population 2,500) offers some shopping, coffee shops, and bookstores.

Scenic beauty: Near the campground, visitors can enjoy beautiful forests and scenic mountain views. Huckleberry Campground is technically off-grid and away from a cell phone signal. However, you can drive 2.5 miles up a nearby gravel logging road to get a cell signal.

Huckleberry Campground near Calder, Idaho is a very special camping destination. Our family looks forward to making many more memories there!

Katie Wallace

Hi, I’m Katie! I live with my husband and 4 kids in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. I love Jesus, coffee, creative projects, photography, and traveling. I’ve previously worked as a web designer, journalist, and barista. I hope you enjoy our creative projects and family adventures!