Beaver Dam Group Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 38 mi
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $40From, per site
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
- Season
- June 1 – October 31Open June 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Experience the night stars and the big trees at this small, semi-primitive camping area that is located along Beaver Dam Creek. Keep reading
Recreation
Nearby hiking includes Pacicfic Crest Trail, Brown Mountain and Fish Lake Trail.
Facilities
This campground is a rustic site with limited amenities. There are 4 individual campsites each with a picnic table and fire pit. The campground accommodates tents and one small trailer / rv (28 feet maximum). No water or garbage service is available.
Natural Features
Beaver Dam Group Campground offers access to Beaver Dam Trail #1001, giving campers an opportunity to explore two different types of habitats: a riparian area and old growth forest.
Nearby Attractions
Howard Prairie Lake is 10 miles from Beaver Dam Group Campround. The reservoir has boating, fishing and swimming opportunities. Amneties offered at Howard Prairie Resort include a store, restaurant and boat ramp.
What the agency tells you
Entry through the access gate and to the campground is by combination lock. The combination will be included in your confirmation letter.
For current conditions please call the High Cascades Ranger District at (541) 560-3400
All garbage and food must be packed out.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Learn more about Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/rogue-siskiyou/home
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.
Caution: Bears frequent the area; be aware, keep a clean camp and store all food items in closed containers.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…small trailer / rv (28 feet maximum). No water or garbage service is available. Natural Features…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
- Hiking
Full this Saturdayread 15:34 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 19. read 15:34 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $40 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.
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 15:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites
All 1 sites
| 1 - 4 | group standard area nonelectric |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Big Elk Guard StationRogue River National Forest · 3.8 mi
North Fork Campground (OR)Rogue River National Forest · 5.1 mi
Doe Point CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 6.5 mi
Fish Lake Campground - Rogue RiverRogue River National Forest · 6.7 mi
Willow Prairie HorsecampRogue River National Forest · 7.2 mi
Willow Prairie CabinRogue River National Forest · 7.2 miFrom Ashland, OR, follow Dead Indian Memorial Highway 22 miles east and turn north (left) on to Forest Road 37. Continue 1 mile 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 Rocky Point, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 58°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Beaver Dam Group 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyCliff BentzU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJeff MerkleyU.S. Senator · Oregon
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRon WydenU.S. Senator · Oregon
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Beaver Dam Group Campground, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon
Dear Cliff Bentz, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Beaver Dam Group Campground, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Beaver Dam Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Beaver Dam Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Beaver Dam Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Beaver Dam Group Campground (Rogue River National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Beaver Dam Group Campground, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Beaver Dam Group Campground, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Beaver Dam Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Beaver Dam Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Beaver Dam Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Beaver Dam Group Campground (Rogue River National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Beaver Dam Group Campground, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Beaver Dam Group Campground, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Beaver Dam Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Beaver Dam Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Beaver Dam Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Beaver Dam Group Campground (Rogue River National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com