U.S. Forest Service · Siskiyou National Forest · OR
Big Pine Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 14 mi
Wildfire
Crooks Creek Rd 3440 fire · 14 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Wildfire
Three Mill Rd 774 fire · 16 mi away · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
W Fork Whiskey Creek fire · 17 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Wildfire
West Side Rd 5565 fire · 22 mi away · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Foothill Blvd 5651 fire · 25 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
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
2,180 ftElevation
57 ftWater · Myers Creek
12.2 miSW of Merlin, OR
68%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 506th darkest of 770 in OR
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Temporary Closure Order due to hazardous trees. These sites are located in a rustic camp. Campsites are suitable for tents and trailers. This site is home to what was once the world's tallest ponderosa pine tree--it is now the second tallest! Keep reading
Facilities
12 campsites with picnic tables, and fire pits Drinking water (hand pump) 3 vault toilets Garbage disposal (during open season)
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…fire pits Drinking water (hand pump) 3 vault toilets Garbage disposal (during open season)”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with picnic tables, and fire pits Drinking water (hand pump) 3 vault toilets Garbage disposal…”
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. 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
“$5 for campsite $2 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 here
Sam Brown CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 1.3 mi
Onion Mountain LookoutSiskiyou National Forest · 3.1 mi
Spalding Pond CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 7.8 mi
Sixmile CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 12 mi
River Bench CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 12 mi
Store Gulch CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 12 mi
Sam Brown CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 1.3 miOnion Mountain LookoutSiskiyou National Forest · 3.1 miSpalding Pond CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 7.8 miSixmile CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 12 miRiver Bench CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 12 miStore Gulch CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 12 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
This Afternoon80°Sunny
Tonight51°Partly Cloudy
Saturday66°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night47°Partly Cloudy1% rain
NWS forecast for Selma, OR
Source: National Weather Service, MFR forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 72°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
100°32°20°
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: CAVE JUNCTION 1 WNW, OR (USC00351448), 21 miles away and 803 ft lower
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.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 5, 2026
Who answers for this land
Big Pine 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: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
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 16, 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.
Nearest place of any size: Selma, OR, 10.7 mi NNW (a census designated place). Straight line.