U.S. Forest Service · Umatilla National Forest · OR

Bear Wallow Creek Campground

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
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$8From, per site
Drawn from the record · 3,890 ft · 39% tree cover · Bear Wallow Creek within reach · Bortle 2 sky
3,890 ftElevation
74 ftWater · Bear Wallow Creek
20 miS of Pilot Rock, OR
39%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 208th darkest of 770 in OR

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

This campground offers a pleasant experience among the pines adjacent to State Highway 244. It features 8 campsties, including 1 accessible site and 2 accessible vault toilets. There is no potable water or garbage service, so please dispose of your garbage at home. Attractions in this area include hunting, bird watching, photo opportunities, and a 1/4-mile-long, accessible interpretive trail detailing the life cycle of steelhead salmon.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…1 accessible site and 2 accessible vault toilets. There is no potable water or garbage service, so…”
Drinking water
None, bring your own
“…site and 2 accessible vault toilets. There is no potable water or garbage service, so please dispose of your…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $8 with nothing added. 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
A night$8Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$16DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 6

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$8
Single site: $8 per night (extra $5 fee per vhicle exceeding the two-vehicle-per-site allowance).
Occupancy is limited to 8 people and 2 vehicles per site.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$8
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$16

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($8), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight41°Partly Cloudy
Saturday64°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night34°Partly Cloudy
Sunday62°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Ukiah, OR

Typical weather

Typical October night 29°F, day 57°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 20°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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.

Measured at: MEACHAM, OR (USW00024152), 28 miles away and 167 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Cliff Bentz, official portrait

Bear Wallow 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
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.
Nearest place of any size: Ukiah, OR, 9 mi ENE. Straight line.