Bingham Springs Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 9 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This tiny and rustic campground is located adjacent to a meadow and a small pond in the northwestern portion of the Ochoco National Forest. The campground is also adjacent to the Twin Pillars North Trailhead which provides access into Mill Creek Wilderness . The campground is bordered by ponderosa and lodgepole pines, and the open meadow makes for some gorgeous stargazing on warm summer nights.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Meadow
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. 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.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, 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
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Ochoco Divide Group SiteOchoco National Forest · 7.1 mi
Ochoco Ranger RentalOchoco National Forest · 9.5 mi
Ochoco Forest CampOchoco National Forest · 9.6 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mitchell, OR
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Bingham Springs 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 →