Part of Wallowa Whitman National Forest
Located on Windy Saddle above the Hells Canyon Wilderness, Windy Saddle Horse Camp is a small campground with 4 campsites. The campground has long camp spurs for trailers, an overflow parking area for stock trailers or day use, hitching rails and a loading ramp.
Quiet hours are from 10pm to 6am,
Primary use season is from July to September.
Windy Saddle Horse Camp is s small campground of 4 campsites, each with a picnic table, fire ring and parking space.
With the continued hot temps and low Relative Humidity’s predicted in the weather on top of all the continued large fires going in the region, the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest will move to an IFPL 4 on Saturday morning the 8th of August at 0001.
With tinder dry forest fuels and high daytime temperatures, conditions are prime for potential human-caused forest fires. We ask that you be extremely careful when out on the forest.
For more information on public-use restrictions, contact your local Forest Service office or visit our websites:
http://bmidc.org/restrictions.shtml or www.fs.usda.gov/wallowa-whitman
<p>From Riggins, Idaho travel south on Highway 95 for 1.3 miles to Seven Devils Road (becomes Forest Road 517); Turn right on Seven Devils Road and go 17 miles to trailhead and horse camp road junction; Take a right at the road junction and continue on towards the Heaven's Gate Lookout for about 0.1 miles to the horse camp entrance road (one way traffic); Follow this road around to the horse camp. </p><p><strong>ADVISORY:</strong> Forest Road 517 is very steep, and narrow. Low clearance vehicles, RVs and vehicles pulling trailers are not recommened or advised to use caution when traveling the upper sections of this road. The road can also be slippery when wet or frozen and is not recommended for trailers in the late fall and winter.</p>