Payette National Forest · Idaho
Overview The Paddy Flat Guard Station is located in the Payette National Forest of central Idaho. Guests enjoy the remote area for its hunting opportunities and abundance of hiking, biking, horseback riding and off-highway vehicle roads and trails. Abundant streams and numerous alpine lakes within travel distance offer fantastic fishing opportunities.
Sites at Paddy Flat Guard Station are reserved through Recreation.gov. Sites here can be reserved in advance through the official system, and they are claimed fast — cancellations then trickle back all season, unannounced, at any hour of the day or night.
| Total sites | 2 |
|---|---|
| Site types | Cabin |
| Hookups | Electric hookups at some sites |
| Location | McCall, ID |
| Book through | Recreation.gov |
| Official listing | Recreation.gov |
Because sites are booked months ahead, a steady share of reservations get cancelled as trips fall through. Each cancellation instantly returns that site and those nights to the official calendar — first-come, first-served, no waitlist, no announcement. Refreshing the booking page yourself, every few minutes for weeks, works in theory. In practice, the people who get these sites are the ones who hear about the opening first.
ItOpened scans the Recreation.gov calendar for Paddy Flat Guard Station around the clock. When a site matching your dates and your vehicle opens, you get a text with a direct link to it. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell — your fee pays for monitoring, and openings are first-come, so speed is the whole game.
| Cold Springs Campground - Payette NF (ID) | Cancellation alerts available |
|---|---|
| Last Chance | Cancellation alerts available |
| Grouse Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Upper Payette Lake Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Cabin Creek | Cancellation alerts available |
| Spring Creek Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Mann Creek Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Big Flat | Cancellation alerts available |
| Evergreen Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Hazard Lake | Cancellation alerts available |
| Kennally Creek | Cancellation alerts available |
| Brownlee | Cancellation alerts available |
| Buckhorn Bar | Cancellation alerts available |
| Lake Fork | Cancellation alerts available |
| Ponderosa | Cancellation alerts available |
| Chinook | Cancellation alerts available |
| Huckleberry | Cancellation alerts available |
| Lafferty | Cancellation alerts available |
| Poverty Flat | Cancellation alerts available |
| Jeanette | Cancellation alerts available |
| Big Creek | Cancellation alerts available |
| Burgdorf | Cancellation alerts available |
| Camp Creek | Cancellation alerts available |
| Four Mile | Cancellation alerts available |
| Secesh Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Buck Park Cabin | Cancellation alerts available |
| Burgdorf Guard Station | Cancellation alerts available |
Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Site facts come from the official directory listing for Paddy Flat Guard Station; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.