Sawtooth National Forest
National Forest · Jerome, Idaho
Two point one million acres in south-central Idaho, proclaimed as the Sawtooth Forest Reserve by Theodore Roosevelt in May 1905 and run today from an office in Jerome. It is managed as four units, and one of them - the Sawtooth National Recreation Area - is the part everybody has heard of and has its own entry. The rest is the Fairfield and Ketchum districts in the Soldier and Smoky mountains, and the Minidoka Division scattered in five separate pieces down near the Utah line, where Cache Peak stands 10,339 feet above the sagebrush and almost nobody goes.
370 American Avenue, Jerome, Idaho, 83338, United States
Open year round with no entrance station and no general forest fee. ⚠ THE SAWTOOTH NATIONAL RECREATION AREA IS PART OF THIS FOREST AND HAS ITS OWN ENTRY, its own visitor centre and its own day-use parking fees at developed sites - this row covers the Fairfield, Ketchum and Minidoka districts. THE SUPERVISOR'S OFFICE AT JEROME keeps weekday hours, typically 8:00 to noon and 1:00 to 4:30, closed on federal holidays - ⚠ AND JEROME IS NOT IN THE FOREST; it moved there in 2018 after 32 years in Twin Falls. District offices at Fairfield, Ketchum and Burley are the useful ones for local conditions. ⚠ THE MOUNT HARRISON ROAD AND LAKE CLEVELAND SIT ABOVE 8,000 FEET AND HOLD SNOW INTO JULY despite being in the far south of the state. Campgrounds are a mix of first-come and recreation.gov and the southern division sites rarely fill. Free self-issue wilderness registration at the trailheads. Fire restrictions are common from July.
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