Pink House Recreation Site

RV sites with full hookups $18/night ($9 with Senior/Access Pass), tent sites $10/night, additional vehicles $4/night; group day-use pavilions $25/day (small) or $50/day (large) plus online service fee.

Large sandy beach with a gentle, shallow shoreline is explicitly called out by a Campendium reviewer as a place to 'let the kids take a swim,' and it's a short walk from the campsites with no cliffs or jumps involved. That said, it's open, unsupervised river water (no lifeguards), reviewers note the water runs cold, and the reach is used for tubing over 'mellow' but real rapids just upstream, so younger kids should be watched closely rather than left to swim freely.

No significant hike is required. The swimming area is close to parking and access.

Three paved day-use lots with designated accessible spaces, plus trailer/RV parking for boat-launch users; day-use parking is free. Overnight parking in the day-use lots is prohibited (campers must use campsites).

Recreation.gov and BLM both list boating, kayaking, canoeing, and tubing as activities here, and the site has a concrete boat ramp described as 'one of the most heavily used boat launching sites upstream from Lewiston.' No specific restrictions (no-wake zones, electric-only, horsepower limits) were found in official sources; the upstream reach is popular for tubing over its 'mellow rapids.'

Summer, when the beach and river are used for swimming and tubing, though the site and beach (for foot access) are open year-round.

Campsites are first-come, first-served (not reservable); a campground host is present; the beach is closed to vehicle access June 1-September 30; as of 2026 flush toilets and the RV dump station are intermittently unavailable during a sewage lift station renovation.

Pink House Recreation Site is on Clearwater River, a natural river verified in USGS hydrography data.