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Orogrande Airport is a remote backcountry strip in the mountains of Idaho County, Idaho, sitting a short distance northeast of the small settlement of Orogrande. Owned and maintained by the U.S. Forest Service, it offers a single grass runway at 4,400 feet elevation and sees only light general-aviation traffic, making it a destination of interest chiefly to backcountry and bush pilots.
Orogrande Airport is a small, public-use backcountry airfield owned by the U.S. Forest Service, serving the tiny community of Orogrande in the mountains of central Idaho. With a single grass runway and no instrument approach, it is a classic Idaho backcountry strip that will appeal to sim pilots who enjoy remote, terrain-surrounded fields flown under visual conditions.
The airfield lies in Idaho County, Idaho, about one nautical mile northeast of the central business district of Orogrande. No controlled airspace or ATC services are associated with the field in the available information, consistent with its status as a remote, lightly used backcountry strip.
Orogrande Airport has one physical runway, 01/19, aligned roughly north-south and surfaced in grass, measuring 2,921 feet in length. There is no ILS or other instrument approach available.
No communications frequencies are published for Orogrande Airport, and there is no radio or navigational aid service associated with the field. Pilots should plan for a self-announced, non-towered operation with no ATC or navaid support.
No published joining or circuit procedures are available for this airfield. Given its short grass runway and mountain setting, pilots should exercise the caution typical of backcountry strip operations, though specific local procedures are not documented in available sources.
The airfield is located about one nautical mile northeast of the town of Orogrande, which itself provides the primary visual reference for locating the strip amid the surrounding mountainous terrain.
Orogrande Airport is owned by the U.S. Forest Service and has long served as a small general-aviation access point for the remote mining town of Orogrande in Idaho County. It covers a modest area of about 10 acres and has operated as a public-use turf airstrip supporting light aircraft traffic into this isolated part of the Idaho backcountry.
The airfield remains a public-use, Forest Service-owned strip supporting general aviation traffic, with around 100 aircraft operations recorded in the twelve months ending September 2021, an average of about eight movements a month. It has no instrument approach, no known radio frequencies, and no fuel or other services noted in available information.
