Priest Lake is cedar and hemlock over the pad and the Selkirks across a lake 19 miles long. Getting there is the long run north past the lakes near town and up ID-57 from Priest River, and that distance is why people bring the rig for a week and leave it parked on one shore. The kids live in the shallows, and everyone comes back at night to real beds and a fridge that stays cold. It's a summer trip, and the good weeks are worth booking early.
On the east shore, Priest Lake State Park's Indian Creek campground keeps the week easy, with cabins among the campsites, a visitor center, and a park store that sells gasoline. With 93 campsites it's the bigger camp, and it's the side of the lake with electricity and a dump station. That counts in July, when a motorhome full of people wants the air conditioner running through the afternoon.
Across the water, the Forest Service camps on the west shore are quieter and simpler. Reeder Bay has the beach everyone remembers, sloping gently into clear water, plus paved spurs, water hydrants and flush toilets but no hookups, so the rig runs on its tanks and batteries for the stay. Beaver Creek, the other west-shore camp, keeps it plainer still with drinking water and vault toilets. Only the state park lists a dump station, so a west-shore week means planning the holding tanks around the whole stay.
Silver Valley, Wallace, and the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes
East of Coeur d'Alene, I-90 runs into the Silver Valley, a narrow, heavily mined valley with Kellogg and Wallace strung along the river. The Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes follows that river through it, smooth enough for kids on small bikes to ride a stretch and be back at the rig for dinner. The trail covers 73 paved miles from Mullan to Plummer, with camping along it prohibited, so the rig sleeps at a park and the bikes come off the rack in the morning.
Wallace is worth an afternoon off the bike, for lunch among the old brick storefronts and a look at the town's mining past in its museum or on a mine tour. Blue Anchor RV Park in Osburn, off I-90 between Kellogg and Wallace, puts the rig in the middle of all of it. It has large pull-through sites and full hookups, and if you're heading east before going north to the lake, it's a good first night.
Lake Coeur d'Alene, with the rig parked in town
Lake Coeur d'Alene is what fills the town every summer, and a family can take a whole week of it without moving the rig. Tamarack RV Park, on Government Way, parks you under tall ponderosa pines, with full hookups and 20, 30 and 50 amp service at every site, pull-throughs, and no wood fires allowed as of September 2026. Beach days end with showers in the rig and the air on, and it makes an easy night in town before the run up to Priest Lake.
Silverwood's rides make a loud day off the water for the kids, and the theme park runs its own RV park. It's written up on the Coeur d'Alene campervan page along with Heyburn State Park and the run out to Farragut, Sandpoint and Schweitzer, and that page also fits two people happy in a smaller rig. For RV trips farther south in the state, start with the Idaho RV page.