Buckhorn Campground
1Heads up1 fire 42 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
Located near the Buckhorn Tower Viewpoint , the Buckhorn Campground is a small rustic campground nestled in the trees just below the ridgeline. The site is popular with summer campers and fall hunters. Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
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
Saddle Creek CampgroundHells Canyon National Recreation Area · 25 miSeven Devils CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 32 miFish Creek Group Use CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 36 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for White Bird, ID
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
Buckhorn 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 →