Big Creek Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $8From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Big Creek Campground sits at the edge of beautiful Logan Valley along Big Creek and is a great starting point for multiple recreation opportunities, including mountain biking, hiking, stream fishing, hunting and bird watching and exploring the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness. In the spring and early summer the area is exceptional for wildflower viewing. Keep reading
Recreation
Big Creek Campground offers a central base for all your recreation activities. From casting a line in Big Creek to biking nearby terrain and hiking Strawberry Mountain wilderness, adventure is all around.
Facilities
Each campsite has a picnic table, fire ring, and parking for camp trailers. Accessible vault toilets are conveniently located in the middle of the campground. Potable water is available during the summer months.
Natural Features
Big Creek Campground is located in Logan Valley with views of the Strawberry Mountains. Big Creek borders the campground. Contact Info For local information, please call (541) 820-3800 or call (541) 575-3000 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Prairie City Ranger District Strawberry Mountain Wilderness Logan Valley Murray Campground Lake Creek Youth Camp Malheur River Malheur River Ford Trailhead
What the agency tells you
14 Day Stay Limit
Drinking water is available only during warmer months; water will be shut off from early October until late May (specific dates required to prevent freezing lines depend on area temperatures).
Malheur National Forest Fire Public Use Restrictions
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Malheur National Forest Alerts
No cell phone coverage.
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.
No trash service; Pack it in/Pack it out
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…parking for camp trailers. Accessible vault toilets are conveniently located in the middle of the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…located in the middle of the campground. Potable water is available during the summer months. Natural…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Water access
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:46 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $8 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 15:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites
All 15 sites
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.
| Big Creek | 01 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 02 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 03 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 04 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 05 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 06 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 07 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 08 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 09 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 10 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 11 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 12 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 13 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 14 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Big Creek | 15 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Buck Spring CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 10 mi
Deerhorn CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 10 miFrom the town of Prairie City, OR., turn onto South Main Street. Follow South Main Street to the junction with Bridge Street. Turn left onto Bridge Street and follow out of town past the local cemetary. The road then becomes County Road 62. Follow County Road 62 approximately 19 miles to the junction with Forest Road 16. Turn West onto Forest Road 16, follow for approximately 6 miles the campground will be on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Seneca, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 11°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
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Big 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 →