About the Book

Leave behind the stress and crowds of your busy life and enter a place of towering beauty and magnificent views, of quiet and solitude, of challenges and rewards.  The Intermountain Region is such a place.  Here you will find rugged mountains, open spaces, lush green valleys, rivers and lakes, a wide variety of wildlife, trees touching the sky, delicate wild flowers, many memories, and great fun.  All you need is a wide variety of camping opportunities and the Intermountain Region has that.  Enjoy Ebenezer campground with its mature, fruit bearing apricot trees in the Salmon National Forest (NF) and challenging hikes, vistas, and history of Red Canyon campground in Dixie NF.  The campgrounds found in the Spring Mountain National Recreation Area (NRA) of Toiyabe NF just north of Las Vegas, NV and the Wasatch NF’s Tanners Flat, Albion Basin, and Spruces campgrounds, provide city dwellers a convenient place for a great mini-vacation.  Mackinaw campground in Fishlake NF and Lucerne Valley campground in Ashley NF’s Flaming Gorge NRA are great destination campgrounds for a longer adventure.  And then other campgrounds, like Bridger NF’s Green River Lake and Tin Cup in the Challis NF, offer solitude and challenges for any who venture to distant places.  And there is more, so much more.  The breathtaking beauty, open spaces, and the adventures awaiting visitors to the Intermountain Region mean one visit will probably lead to another and another and another.

Whether you camp in a tent or a recreational vehicle (RV), there are campgrounds in the U.S. National Forests to satisfy the needs of most campers.  The U.S. National Forest Campground Guide - Intermountain Region, describes 337 developed campgrounds in 18 National Forests located in 5 states.  All of the campgrounds were personally visited and researched by the authors of this Guide.

There are more than 50 items of information for each campground, narrative descriptions (including authors’ anecdotes), maps displaying the relative location of the campgrounds, and quick look-up tables to help in the selection of a campground.  In addition, there are sidebars throughout the Guide containing useful information about camping, the forests, things to do, and the authors’ experiences.

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