Meadow Creek Cabin in ID -- Campground & RV Camping

Meadow Creek Cabin is a backcountry station built in the 1920s, set in a pine-forested canyon along Meadow Creek. Access requires a 15-mile hike or horseback ride. The complex includes a main cabin, bunkhouse, tack shed, woodshed, outhouse, and stock corral. Indoors, it offers six beds with mattresses, a wood heating stove, wood cook stove, propane refrigerator, lighting, cookware, and an unverified water system. Visitors come to fly fish for trout in Meadow Creek or ride and hike nearby routes like the Meadow Creek National Recreation Trail, near the historic Indian Hill Lookout.

Getting there: Travel to Lowell, Idaho, located approximately midway between Lewiston, Idaho and Missoula, Montana on Highway 12, milepost 97 at the confluence of the Lochsa and Selway Rivers. Cross the bridge and drive 20 miles up the Selway River. Cross the Selway Falls Bridge on the right. Travel about a mile to the trailhead at Slim's Camp. It's a 15-mile hike or horseback ride on National Recreation Trail #726 to Meadow Creek Cabin. Another route is from Elk City by way of Kirk's Fork Trail #830 to Anderson Butte, then Butte Creek Trail #809 to the Meadow Creek Trail #726. Take a right on this trail approximately 1/4 mile to the Meadow Creek Cabin. This route is open to motorcycles the whole way. This route is a total of approximately 14 miles to the cabin.

• Little separation from through roads or other sites here, a single-site campground with the nearest through road 0.1 miles off.
• Mount Stewart stands 647 ft above the map pin, 0.5 miles southeast.
• Middle Fork Clearwater River runs 0.1 mi off.
• Estimated night sky: Bortle 5, a rural sky with a glow on the horizon.
• Cabins and shelters rather than pads.

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