Acorn Woman Lakes
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 22 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Acorn Womans Lake Campgrounds are nestled in a mixed-conifer forest on the banks of Acorn Womans Lake. The facility provides remote spread-out tent-only campsites that are reachable via foot trails. The unique, remote setting offers visitors stunning scenery and access to a multitude of recreational opportunities with a campsite far enough from other campsites. Some campsites are up to 0.8 of a mile from parking area, some are closer. Forest Service vault toilets are spread out and a short walk away. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking and fishing top the list of recreational opportunities at Acorn Womans Lake Campground. Two mountain lakes, a river and a handful of hiking trails are accessible from the campground. Anglers enjoy the remote location and scenic backdrop of two natural lakes, providing excellent fishing opportunities for coldwater and warmwater species. Acorn Womans Lake sustains rainbow and cutthroat trout, yellow perch, brown bullhead and black bass. The smaller Lake provides a rare fishery for 8-11" wild, native coastal cutthroat trout. A 0.25-mile hiking trail connects the lakes. Motors are not permitted on the lakes. From the campground, Acorn Womans Lake Trail is a 1-mile interpretive hike that provides visitors with many opportunities for picnicking and swimming. The 2-mile Summit Lake Trail travels through a mixed conifer forest and small water crossings.
Facilities
Acorn Woman Lakes Campground contains a day use area, 10 individual sites and five group sites. All sites are walk-in and designated for tent camping only. They are reachable by walking on foot trails from the parking area. Vehicles must be parked in the designated parking lot, and all personal belongings must be carried to the campsite. The closest campsites are approximately 1/4 mile from parking, and the farthest campsites are approximately 1.5 miles from parking. SOMETIMES we do offer an ATV portage service for your camping gear. We will not transport people. This service is at the discretion of the Camp Host and charged at $25 per trip. ATV's break down, camp hosts need time off so ALWAYS have carts as a plan B. For more info email info@applegatelake.com. Picnic tables, campfire rings and vault toilets are provided. Group site $19 campers MUST WALK TO THE BATHROOM NEAR THE DAY USE AREA. HUMAN WASTE MAY NOT BE PLACED IN TRASH RECEPTACLES. Drinking water is available on the East side hand pump by campsite #2 SOME SEASONS. Campers must supply their own drinking water or have containers to fill at this handpump IF IT IS OPERATIONAL. Contact Star Ranger Station for more information (541) 899-3800 Please note, there is a two-night minimum when you desire to reserve a Friday or Saturday night. Visit www.applegatelake.com for more information.
Natural Features
The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest is composed of two distinct geological provinces: the Cascade Range and the Siskiyou Mountains. The Cascade Range is dominated by snow-capped volcanic peaks such as 9,495 foot Mt. McLoughlin within the Sky Lakes Wilderness. The Siskiyou area embodies world-class rivers, remarkable fisheries and the most complex and treasured plant communities in the Pacific Northwest. Diverse landscapes provide habitat for a wide-range of wildlife, from spotted owls and elk to salamanders and sandhill cranes.
Nearby Attractions
Remote Wilderness. Hiking trails.
Charges & Cancellations
Please see the recreation.gov rules & regulation policies. These policies are system-wide, and not specific to each facility. We are NOT staffed to handle or manage cancellations and/or changes via telephone. Please do not call or leave any messages for these issues. Please NOTE: In Southern Oregon, we unfortunately get difficult conditions due to forest fire smoke. The USFS has the difficult decisions as to whether to temporarily close these facilities, or for them to remain open. If the facilities are closed, refunds will be honored. If the facilities remain open, the sites will be maintained, and reservations will be honored. If you have any specific questions regarding cancellations/changes or mofications to your existing reservation, it may be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Please email us at applegatelake@gmail.com.
What the agency tells you
FF means: First-come / First served. Acorn Woman Lakes has no-cell-service. We do not know if someone has already arrived and taken that spot. You can email us at info@applegatelake.com, and we can give you up-to-the-minute advice, but ultimately, you'll need drive up and take your chances. If the Camp Host is onsite, he/she will have the best information. If you take an empty site WITHOUT CHECKING IN WITH THE CAMP HOST, and a valid reservation shows-up, they obviously have preference to camp there. Due to the lack of available cell-reception, this in an imperfect system, that's why we always suggest advance-reservations.
If you have advance reservations, or you are attempting first-come /fist served camping, we always suggest that you check-in at Hart Tish Park General Store. You'll get the latest information, and maybe you can purchase some fogotten items, such as, an extra bag of ice.
Portage service MAY be available at $25 per trip. Please confirm this service BEFORE your visit. Email: info@applegatelake.com. Always have carts as a back up plan in case ATV is not available/broken down etc.
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Vehicle parking is in designated parking lot area. DO NOT BLOCK THE GATE. No parking at individual campsites. / Campsites are hike-in, accessible only by foot trails. Each campsite is allowed 1-vehicle parking, each additional vehicle $7/night.
Please PRINT and BRING your Reservation confirmation AND PLACE ON DASHBOARD OF YOUR VEHICLE. Routine checks are made. Please print a copy of your camping reservation and place on your dashboard. This ensures the camp host will not think your vehicle is a day use visitor that did not pay. Thank you. EXTRA VEHICLES ARE $5 A DAY.
Only non-motorized boats allowed on lakes.
Firewood may be available for sale from Camp-Host. Bear bins are in place at the group sites only at this time.
When your first camping night is a Friday or Saturday night, a two-night minimum reservation is required.
Click here for more information about Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.
Don't MOVE Firewood: Please protect Pacific Northwest forests by preventing the spread of invasive species. Firewood can carry insects and diseases that can threaten the health of our western forests. You can make a difference by obtaining and burning your firewood near your camping destination. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Cancellations: Recreation.gov collects an $8 reservation fee, which is non-refundable. The campsite cancellation fee is a flat $10 for your entire reservation. EXAMPLE: if you booked (2) nites at $25 per nite, your total camping fee would be $58. If you cancelled at least 48-hours prior to your reservation arrival, your refund would be: $58-$8-$10 = $40 net refund. If you late cancel (within 48-hr of your arrival), you will also forfeit the first-nite camping fee. In this same example, you would be refunded: $58-$8-$10-$25 = $15 net refund. Processing refunds is time-consuming & expensive for the facility, and we potentially will not refill your camping spot. This loses revenue for the facility due to your situation & circumstances changing. The Facility is NOT responsible for acts of God / weather / fire-restrictions / smoke / or other things outside the control of the facility. Thanks for your understanding.
Fire and Smoke situation: The Facility is OPEN. However, the camp-host MAY NOT be on-site. This could mean no Portage or daily trash service. Please pack-in/pack-out. If you need toilet paper or trash bags, please stop by the Hart Tish Park General store, we will be happy to supply for free. Please email us BEFORE your arrival for the latest info. ALWAYS CHECK UPDATES OF CURRENT FIRE LEVELS AND RESTRICTIONS PRIOR TO YOUR LEAVING.
Acorn Woman Lakes Campground contains a day use area, 10 individual sites and five group sites. All sites are walk-in and designated for tent camping only. They are reachable by walking on foot trails from the parking area. Vehicles must be parked in the designated parking lot, and all personal belongings must be carried to the campsite. The closest campsites are approximately 1/4 mile from parking, and the farthest campsites are approximately 1.5 miles from parking. SOMETIMES we do offer an ATV portage service for your camping gear. We will not transport people. This service is at the discretion of the Camp Host and charged at $25 per trip. ATV's break down, camp hosts need time off so ALWAYS have carts as a plan B. For more info email info@applegatelake.com. Picnic tables, campfire rings and vault toilets are provided. Group site $19 campers MUST WALK TO THE BATHROOM NEAR THE DAY USE AREA. HUMAN WASTE MAY NOT BE PLACED IN TRASH RECEPTACLES. Drinking water is available on the East side hand pump by campsite #2 SOME SEASONS. Campers must supply their own drinking water or have containers to fill at this handpump IF IT IS OPERATIONAL. Contact Star Ranger Station for more information (541) 899-3800 Visit www.applegatelake.com for more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15 · 15 walk-in, 5 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…area, some are closer. Forest Service vault toilets are spread out and a short walk away. Recreation…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…MAY NOT BE PLACED IN TRASH RECEPTACLES. Drinking water is available on the East side hand pump by campsite…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
“Additional vehicles are $5 per day.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“Please see the recreation.gov rules & regulation policies. These policies are system-wide, and not specific to each facility. We are NOT staffed to handle or manage cancellations and/or changes via telephone. Please do not call or leave any messages for these issues. Please NOTE: In Southern Oregon, we unfortunately…” · this campground’s own terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 15 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 15 of the 15 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 001 | walk to | 966 ft | 139 ftAcorn Woman Lakes | 78 ft | $25 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 002 | walk to | 621 ft | 331 ftAcorn Woman Lakes | 804 ft | $25 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 00345 Group | group walk to | 84 ft | 99 ftAcorn Woman Lakes | 259 ft | $75 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 00678 Group | group walk to | 84 ft | 171 ftAcorn Woman Lakes | 215 ft | $75 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 009 | walk to | 299 ft | 95 ftAcorn Woman Lakes | 534 ft | $25 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 010 | walk to | 511 ft | 400 ftAcorn Woman Lakes | 1,367 ft | $25 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 011 | walk to | 511 ft | 264 ftAcorn Woman Lakes | 1,603 ft | $25 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 012 | walk to | 277 ft | 59 ftAcorn Woman Lakes | 1,285 ft | $25 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 013 | walk to | 277 ft | 41 ftAcorn Woman Lakes | 1,219 ft | $25 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 014 | walk to | 355 ft | 19 ftAcorn Woman Lakes | 1,186 ft | $25 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 015 | walk to | 1041 ft | 47 ftTéel Creek | 1,942 ft | $25 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 016 Group | group walk to | 410 ft | 100 ftTéel Creek | 467 ft | $75 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 017 Group | group walk to | 410 ft | 163 ftTéel Creek | 57 ft | $75 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 018 | walk to | 657 ft | 460 ftTéel Creek | 1,083 ft | $25 |
| Acorn Woman Lakes | 019 Group | group walk to | 682 ft | 97 ft | 635 ft | $75 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Flumet Flat Group CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 2.0 mi
Jackson Campground on the Applegate RiverRogue River National Forest · 2.0 mi
McKee Bridge Community Kitchen2.7 mi
HART-TISH PARK at APPLEGATE LAKE4.7 mi
Beaver Sulphur Group CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 4.8 miHart-tish CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 4.9 miFrom Jacksonville, Oregon, take Highway 238 west 7 miles and turn left at Ruch on Road 859. Go 14 miles to Applegate Dam, cross over the dam (Road 1075) and continue on pavement 2 miles. When pavement ends, continue 7 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ruch, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 68°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 29°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Acorn Woman Lakes is in Oregon’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Cliff Bentz (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →