Best Dispersed Camping near Hamer, ID

Stayed at the trailhead parking lot boondocking (No toilets, no water, no electric).  Fairly level area with a fire ring, picnic tables under a shelter, metal charcoal grill and easy access to the lava field (Hells Half Acre) hiking trails.    Access from US 20 to the trailhead parking is gravel and easily accessible for all vehicles with several large turnouts that can be camped at.  The rest of the loop past the turn to the trailhead parking is not graveled but still passable by most vehicles.  I would be more hesitant to use the loop in wet weather where the ground may be soft.

Unfortunately as you can see in a couple of the pictures not everyone cares for our public lands appropriately, there is some garbage left around and someone has taken it upon themselves to use signs and structures for target practice.

- AT&T has 2 bars of LTE and very slow data with a 243ms ping time and a 10Mbps download once it eventually started 

- T-Mobile has 3 bars and my hotspot was able to achieve 18.85Mbps download although it too had a long ping time of 292ms

- Starlink has an unobstructed view of the sky with a 226.6Mbps download speed and 27ms ping

Coordinartes: 44.16547,-112.90392. Beautiful views. Large dirt and gravel site, right along side to Skull Canyon Road, about a mile from ID Hwy 28. Canyon walls on each side. Rough narrow rocky track to the site from the highway; recommend high clearance. High humps on this track. Small rock fire ring. Grass and sagebrush all around site. Some leveling may be required. Tent camping possible. Very peaceful; can hardly hear road noise from highway. The only vehicle that drove by was a national forest truck. No cell service. There are several boondocking sites, some with vault toilets nearby, along Hwy 28 in the Birch Creek Recreation Area.

Easy access only a couple miles on bumpy but car safe gravel road. Great verizon cell phone signal in the river gulch area. ( you can see the tower). Not all of the sites are designated. So this means if you are in one of the things that looks like a site but isnt marked, that anyone can roll up and setup right next to you. So try to get a numbered spot. Some sites are on the river but dont have easy river access, there is a steep bank. The road along the sites is very very dusty and locals using the boat access fly down the road in trucks as fast as they can and will leave your stuff covered in dust. Traffic does down at night but starts up early, much more traffic than I would have thought. There is a busy pool style hot spring down the road but its filled with camp ground people. However the pizza place is okay.