U.S. Forest Service · Wallowa National Forest · OR

Boundary Campground

1Heads up1 fire 42 mi away
Wildfire
Paradise fire · 42 mi away · 9,656 acres · 86% contained · updated Sep 15, 2026
ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks April 16. Season not published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$10From, per site
Sites
8All of them booked ahead
3,700 ftElevation
25 ftWater · Bear Creek
13.1 miNW of Enterprise, OR
67%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 279th darkest of 770 in OR

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Located along the Bear Creek riparian area on the northern end of the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Boundary Campground is a rustic campground. The campground has 8 tent-only campsites, 2 of which are accessible sites. Popular activities include fishing, picnicking and family camping. The Bear Creek Trailhead is located nearby. Primary use season is from June to mid-October. Quiet hours are from 10pm to 6am. Keep reading

Facilities

Boundary Campground has 8 tent-only campsites, with 2 of the sites being accessible sites. Sites include parking area, picnic table and fire ring.

Natural Features

Nearby Attractions

Tents and rigs

Sites
8
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Creek
Backpacking
Fishing
Hiking
Water access
Wilderness access
Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 29 km away
No change
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (29 km) · Oct 3, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$10plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$28DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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Every line of the receipt · 17

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night$10
S&P Standard$10
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Apr 29, 2026 to Oct 9, 2026.
Overnight Use: Single Site: $10/night.
Interagency Senior/Access Recreation Passes provide a 50% discount to Single Campsites ONLY.
The discount applies only to the fee for the campsite physically occupied by the pass holder, not to any additional fee or campsite(s) occupied by members of the pass holder's party. https://store.usgs.gov/recreational-passes Please be prepared to pay with CASH or CHECK.
Single unit campsites = $10.00/night.
A self-service fee station is located at the campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
One nightDerived$18
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$28

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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

8 sites

All 8 sites

Up to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 8 of the 8 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Boundary Campground01standard nonelectric$10
Boundary Campground02standard nonelectric$10
Boundary Campground03standard nonelectric$10
Boundary Campground04standard nonelectric$10
Boundary Campground05standard nonelectric$10
Boundary Campground06standard nonelectric$10
Boundary Campground07standard nonelectric$10
Boundary Campground08standard nonelectric$10

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Coordinate45.47299, -117.55776
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Getting there

From Enterprise, Oregon head northwest on State Highway 82 towards Wallowa;  in Wallowa look for Boundary Campground signs and turn left on First Street and go 0.4 miles; Turn left on North Bear Creek Road and go 1.2 miles (road make several turns); Turn left onto Forest Road 8250 and go 6 miles; Turn right onto Forest Road 040 and go 0.7 miles to Campground. 

Forest Roads are gravel surface.

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight44°Partly Cloudy
Saturday67°Mostly Sunny1% rain
Saturday Night37°Mostly Clear1% rain
Sunday64°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Lostine, OR

Typical weather

Typical October night 31°F, day 63°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 19°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°10°

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: WALLOWA, OR (USC00358997), 7 miles away and 777 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Huckleberry11,238 acres · 1 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Cliff Bentz, official portrait

Boundary 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (29 km) · Oct 3, 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: Lostine, OR, 6 mi W. Straight line.