Fales Flat Campground

Fales Flat Campground is a group facility on the Nez Perce Fork of the Bitterroot River, also well equipped for equestrian campers. The campground provides access to a variety of hiking and horseback riding trails in the area, as well as historic sites that denote the presence of the Nez Perce many years ago. Fly fishing and wading in the Nez Perce Fork, which runs alongside the campground, are popular, and a variety of trails and unimproved roads are great for hiking and horseback riding. Three trails originate near the campground. Watchtower Trail is just down the Nez Perce a mile. Sheephead Creek Trail, across the road, accesses the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and can be hiked as a loop, or up to or down from the top of Nez Perce Pass. Barecone Trail starts just below the campground and is a steep, 2-mile climb to Bare Cone Lookout. The campground offers one large group site for tent and RV camping, accommodating 15 to 100 people. Hookups are not available and parking surfaces are gravel. The site is equipped with multiple tables and a large campfire circle, and vault toilets are provided; drinking water and trash collection bins are not. A few individual and equestrian sites are available first-come, first-served, with access to a horse staging area and hitching racks. The campground sits in a large meadow at the base of Nez Perce Pass, an area believed to have been used by the Nez Perce Nimi'ipuu tribe during its travels to the buffalo country in eastern Montana. The pass is a corridor into the heart of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Areas, and the Montana/Idaho stateline sits atop it, where there is interpretive information and trailhead access north and south.