Bogus Basin weekday closures
Forest stewardship work near Bogus Basin will resume and bring temporary weekday public‑safety closures starting April 27. (Officials say the closures are tied to restoration and wildfire‑risk reduction work that restarts later this month.) (ktvb.com)
Weekday closures on Bogus Basin Road and nearby trails are now set to start Monday, April 27, as logging and forest-restoration work resumes south of the ski area. (ktvb.com) The Boise National Forest said the Deer Point Forest Stewardship Project is entering its second season about one mile south of Bogus Basin, with restrictions scheduled to run through June 19. (fs.usda.gov) Boise County plans to close Bogus Basin Road from mile marker 12 to the work zone for all vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. The road will stay open on weekends and on Memorial Day. (ktvb.com) Other closures will run from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 p.m. Friday each week, covering the Stack Rock Trailhead, the Stack Rock Trail from the trailhead to its junction with Eastside, Sweet Connie and Mr. Big, Pat’s Trail, and National Forest System roads 297A, 297C and 275. (ktvb.com) The work is part of a 1,300-acre, four-year project that the Forest Service announced in April 2025 for land one mile southwest of Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area. The agency said the project is meant to improve forest health in the Boise foothills’ wildland-urban interface, where development meets fire-prone forest. (fs.usda.gov) Forest managers said the plan uses commercial logging on selected species and removes hazard trees damaged by insects and disease. The Forest Service said the work is aimed at lowering catastrophic wildfire risk and reducing problems tied to dwarf mistletoe and bark beetles in Douglas-fir stands. (fs.usda.gov) The closure footprint has shifted since last year’s first season. In 2025, Boise County closed Bogus Basin Road from mile marker 9.8 to the paved parking lot from May 12 through June 20; this year’s road closure starts higher up the mountain at mile marker 12 and is scheduled from April 27 through June 19. (fs.usda.gov; ktvb.com) Bogus Basin said last year that weekday closures would not affect weekend access, and the recreation area pointed riders and hikers to the Ridge to Rivers interactive map for trail-by-trail updates. Ridge to Rivers says its map tracks current closures and alternate routes in the Boise foothills. (bogusbasin.org; ridgetorivers.org) The Forest Service said closures will be adjusted as work moves through the project area through 2028. For now, the message for late-spring visitors is simple: weekday access above mile marker 12 will be limited again starting April 27. (fs.usda.gov; ktvb.com)
