Willow Creek Campground

"This was our first time here at this campground. We were fortunate to spend Tuesday night thru Saturday here, where it was pretty peaceful until the crowd showed up on Thursday night. Thankfully, the large groups near us were very respectful during the night. When we arrived, there was trash everywhere and the bathrooms had trash in them (very smelly). While not necessarily my responsibility, I love nature and always leave places better then when I found them. I gave each of my kids (minus the baby) a grocery bag and we started feom the top of the campground and worked our way to the bottom, picking up even the smallest bits of trash we could find. I want to make sure my kids learn and understand the importance of keeping our wildlife grounds clean. We picked up quite a bit of trash in about 45 minutes. While there, the bathrooms got cleaned out as well, so it was much more pleasant, although still smelly as you could imagine.We enjoyed fishing, although the fish weren't really biting the whole week for the most part. There are bass, trout and suckers in the river. The family swim time was the best. Bring goggles... I found lots of lost treasures (fishing lures) stuck on rocks that I recovered, as qwll as cleaning up old fishing line and misc. trash off the bottom of the river. The water is crystal clear and it's fun to swim across to the other side or float a little bit down river and do it all again. The kids had a blast. We brought our mountain bikes and did a couple short rides with our kiddos on the main road. Bring lots of mosquito repellent with deet. We had that and citronella candles and were fine for the most part. If you venture down by the river away from the campground like we did on our bikes, you'll be sorry, as there was no amount of repellent to keep the blood thirsty mosquitos from raising a fast flying army against us... literally! We rode as fast as our youngest bike riding child could go, which wasn't fast enough to escape the savages from practicing their acupuncture techniques on us all. In general, we did love getting outdoors and swimming in that beautiful, perfect part of the river."

"We stayed 2 nights and enjoyed ourselves. Pump for water was locked. Bathrooms were filthy no toilet paper. Overall had a great space to set up camp. No bugs, lots of butterflies no other wildlife other that Squirrels, chipmunks, lots and lots of birds. Road to the camp is horrendous 😫 and the other way was better but not for the faint of heart with height fear like me. Very very beautiful."

"very good campsite that’s close to Boise. clean and great swimming in the hotter months, also very dog friendly. can get pretty busy so best to get there early. me and my dog coconut had a very fun time (:"