Cabin Creek USFS Airport is a public-use airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 in Valley County

Valley County, Idaho

Valley County is a rural county located in west central Idaho in the United States. Established in 1917, it was named after the Long Valley of the North Fork of the Payette River, which extends over 30 miles from Payette Lake at McCall south to Cascade to Round Valley.The valley was formerly a...

, Idaho

Idaho

Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

, United States

United States

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. It is located 17 nautical miles (31 km) east of Big Creek Ranger Station. The airport owned by the U.S. Forest Service. The airstrip is near Cabin Creek in the Payette National Forest

Payette National Forest

The Payette National Forest, is a U.S. National Forest located in central western Idaho, in parts of Valley, Idaho, Adams, and Washington counties. The land area consists of approximately 2.3 million acres of federally managed lands...

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Facilities and aircraft

Cabin Creek USFS Airport covers an area of 4 acres (1.6 ha) at an elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

 of 4,289 feet (1,307 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

 designated 2/20 with a turf

Grass

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 and dirt

Soil

Soil is a natural body consisting of layers of mineral constituents of variable thicknesses, which differ from the parent materials in their morphological, physical, chemical, and mineralogical characteristics...

 surface measuring 1,750 by 40 feet (533 x 12 m). For the 12-month period ending August 27, 2008, the airport had 900 aircraft operations, an average of 75 per month: 67% air taxi

Air taxi

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 and 33% general aviation

General aviation

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External links

• Cabin Creek USFS Airstrip at MountainFlying.com
• Topo map as of 1 July 1962 from USGS The National Map