Basin Lake, Salmon River Mountains, Idaho County, Idaho     Custom Search User input for Basin Lake, Salmon River Mountains, Idaho County, Idaho: Be the first to submit input for Basin Lake. Help improve this web site with your great input. Submit Input: Your Name: Write or Paste Input here: Upload picture:      Review Guidelines       If you are in Idaho county it's always a good idea to stop by Basin Lake. This lake is so wonderful. Hiking is a popular thing to do around Basin Lake; Black Butte Trail is a magnificent local trail. You'll need more than a day to discover everything Basin Lake has to offer, you can camp at Papoose Creek Campground. You just can't picture the amount of outdoors cool stuff the Salmon River Mountains has to offer. So much enjoyable stuff in the neighborhood       of Basin Lake, truly impressive. Good hiking is available along the Coyote Springs Trail, and you'll stumble on a beautiful lake called Swamp Angel Lake. The Salmon River Mountains scenery is always beautiful. Get your heart beating on the perfect whitewater of Big Creek, and a charming lake like Cottonwood Lake is a brilliant place to visit. During the long summer days at Basin Lake highs are commonly in the 80's while night lows are commonly in the 40's. Throughout                  the wintertime highs are mostly in the 30's, and overnight lows in the 10's for Basin Lake. There's whitewater on Monumental Creek for all you adrenaline people, and Cottonwood Butte is clearly visible from Basin Lake. Whohoo, so much entertaining stuff in one place! The Salmon River Mountains is so good! Go for a hike on the Farrow Mountain Trail. There's so much to do here at Basin Lake that you need to camp here for a while, Parrot Placer Campground is a splendid place for that. An average amount of rain falls at Basin Lake; the wettest month of the year is mostly January, that's the one that snows the most; July is when it's the driest.   Current weather conditions at Basin Lake, Salmon River Mountains, Idaho County, Idaho Local climate location: ELK CITY R S 33 miles away   Coordinates: Latitude: 45.31861 Longitude: -114.7894 Salmon River Mountains Lakes Complete list of all the lakes in the Salmon River Mountains. Salmon River Mountains Outdoors Info Complete outdoors info for the Salmon River Mountains. Idaho Lakes Complete list of all lakes in Idaho Idaho County Lakes Complete list of all lakes in Idaho County Books about Basin Lake List of books available on Amazon.com about Basin Lake, Salmon River Mountains, Idaho County, Idaho. Outdoors Recreation Near Missoula, Montana Very comprehensive list of a variety of outdoors recreation in the vicinity of Missoula, Montana, the metro area neareast to Basin Lake. Find info on campgrounds, hiking trails, ski resorts, lakes, beaches, parks, whitewater and more. Idaho Outdoors Index This is a very comprehensive index of outdoors activities in the great state of Idaho.     These outdoors activities are available near Basin Lake.   Camp Grounds Near Basin Lake: Papoose Creek Campground, Valley County, 8 miles away Parrot Placer Campground, Lemhi County, 9 miles away Cache Bar Campground, Lemhi County, 11 miles away Elk Bar Campground, Valley County, 11 miles away   Whitewater Near Basin Lake: Monumental Creek, Valley CountyCounty, 9 miles away       Class III-IV - 60 miles long (Upper Monumental Campground to Cache Bar) Big Creek, Valley CountyCounty, 13 miles away       Class III-IV - 54 miles long (Big Creek Airstrip to Cache Bar)   Trails Near Basin Lake: Farrow Mountain Trail, Idaho County, 5 miles away Coyote Springs Trail, Idaho County, 6 miles away Black Butte Trail, Valley County, 7 miles away   Lakes Near Basin Lake: Cottonwood Lake, Idaho CountyCounty, 2 miles away Swamp Angel Lake, Idaho CountyCounty, 2 miles away