U.S. Forest Service · Umpqua National Forest · OR
Apple Creek Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 14 mi
Wildfire
Castle fire · 14 mi away · 3,615 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 10, 2026
Wildfire
W Fork Evans Creek fire · 49 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 15, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
1,300 ftElevation
213 ftWater · North Umpqua River
16.5 miE of Glide, OR
65%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 280th darkest of 770 in OR
Opens June 1. No closing date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Camp right along the bank of the Wild and Scenic North Umpqua at this secluded spot located at the confluence of Apple and Panther Creeks. Deep pools and steady riffles offer anglers diverse fishing opportunities with easy access to wade-able areas. Keep reading
Facilities
7 campsites with picnic tables and fire pits 1 double campsite with picnic tables and fire pits No drinking water Vault toilet Garbage disposal Grey water waste sump Campground host available
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “No drinking water Vault toilet Garbage disposal Grey water waste sump Campground host available”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…with picnic tables and fire pits No drinking water Vault toilet Garbage disposal Grey water waste sump…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note
“$10 for campsite $5 for extra vehicle” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 5
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near hereDeer Flat Group CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 1.0 mi
Deer Flat Group Site (Horseshoe Bend Campground)Umpqua National Forest · 2.8 mi
Horseshoe Bend Campground (OR)Umpqua National Forest · 2.8 mi
Island CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 3.2 mi
Steamboat Ball Field Group SiteUmpqua National Forest · 3.5 mi
Canton Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 4.0 mi
Deer Flat Group Site (Horseshoe Bend Campground)Umpqua National Forest · 2.8 miHorseshoe Bend Campground (OR)Umpqua National Forest · 2.8 miIsland CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 3.2 miSteamboat Ball Field Group SiteUmpqua National Forest · 3.5 miCanton Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 4.0 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight50°Mostly Cloudy
Saturday64°Partly Sunny1% rain
Saturday Night47°Partly Cloudy
Sunday64°Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Glide, OR
Source: National Weather Service, MFR forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical June night 47°F, day 76°F.
90°32°20°
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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.
Measured at: TOKETEE FALLS, OR (USC00358536), 12 miles away and 760 ft higher
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
developing
Roadless
Roadless
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 5, 2026
Who answers for this land
Apple Creek Campground 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 17, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.