Bird Track Springs Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 22 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 22All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
If a campground with riverside trails and great bird watching opportunities sounds appealing, Bird Track Springs Campground may be the place for you. This campground is just a short drive from I-84 on State Highway 244 through river-side farm land. The campground has 22 campsites nestled beneath towering ponderosa pine trees in the Grand Ronde River valley. In addition, the Bird Track Interpretive Trail is located on the other side of the Highway and provides a 1.2 mile trail along the Grande Ronde River with 5 smaller spur trails which wind along the river and through cottonwood trees Primary use season is May -October. Quiet hours are from 10pm to 6am. Keep reading
Facilities
Bird Track Springs Campground has 22 campsites with picnic tables, fire rings and parking spurs.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Birding
- Hiking
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 34 km away
- Patchy color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 14:29 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.
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Every line of the receipt · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 14:29 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 sites
All 22 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. 22 of the 22 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Bird Track Springs | 1 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 10 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 11 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 12 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 13 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 14 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 15 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 16 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 17 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 18 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 19 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 2 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 20 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 21 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 22 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 3 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 4 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 5 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 6 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 7 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 8 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Bird Track Springs | 9 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Umatilla Forks CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 5.0 miSpool Cart CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 8.0 mi
Summit Guard Station BunkhouseUmatilla National Forest · 13 miFrog Heaven Forest CampWhitman National Forest · 16 mi
Umapine CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 18 miFrom La Grande, Oregon travel north on Interstate 84 for about eight miles; exit the interstate onto the Ukiah/Hilgard exit number 252 onto State Highway 244 towards Ukiah. Travel on State Highway 244 for about six miles. The campground is on the left side of the road, directly across the highway from Bird Track Interpretive Site.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for La Grande, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 24°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Bird Track 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 →