Bull Prairie Campground (OR)
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 3 of the next 3 nights read 16:45 UTC
- A night
- $14–$19Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bull Prairie Campground is a local gem; a beautiful, woodsy place to enjoy a vacation, host a family reunion or social event, and to enjoy multiple recreational pursuits. This moderate-sized campground is located adjacent to 28-acre Bull Prairie Lake, which is stocked annually with trout. An accessible, family-friendly paved trail along the lake is ideal for morning jogs, bicycle rides, picnicking, and shore or dockside fishing. The lake has a boat ramp, dock and trailer parking area, but only non-motorized boating is allowed. Nearby trails connect the campground and lake with the Morrow County OHV Park, 8 miles away. Note: ATVs are only allowed at the dump station and in the north part of the campground (sites 25-28). While this campground offers potable water, there is no garbage service so please pack out all garbage and dispose of it at home. Keep reading
Recreation
An accessible, family-friendly paved trail around the lake is designed for people who enjoy morning jogs, bicycle rides, picnicking, and shoreline or dock fishing. Non-motorized boating is allowed with a boat ramp, dock, and parking area for trailers. Within the campground adjacent to the lake is a large day-use picnic area with accessible facilities. Besides beautiful scenery, the lake offers many opportunities for wildlife viewing and photography. Hunting activities can be undertaken nearby, but not within this recreation site.
Facilities
This campground features 28 tent/RV campsites, 2 tent-only campsite, 3 double campsites, 1 group campsite, and 8 accessible vault toilets. Potable water is available seasonally throughout the campground and picnic area; no RV hookups are available. A 1.2 mile paved trail loops around the lake, together with 3 accessible fishing docks.
Natural Features
This campground is fully forested with Ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, grand fir, and spruce. Trout are stocked in the nearby lake. Deer, chipmunks, squirrels, and rabbits frequent the campground and waterfowl inhabit the lake and shore. It is also possible to sight an occasional elk in the nearby area. Bears and cougars live in the surrounding forest, but rarely enter the campground and bear-proof storage is not required. Mushroom and berry picking occur seasonally.
Nearby Attractions
The Morrow County OHV Park is located 8 miles north of the campground. Heppner, OR, located 41.5 miles to the north, is the closest town for supplies and gasoline. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 676-2155.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancelling a Reservation: Customers may cancel their reservation prior to arrival either online or through the call center. A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refund for a cancellation. Depending on when you cancel in relation to your arrival day, it may be considered a late cancellation (see below). Individual Campsites: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. Group Facility (including Cabins and Lookouts): Customers who cancel a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee.
What the agency tells you
For additional information and current road conditions please contact the Recreation Department at the Heppner Ranger District. (541-676-2155)
Check in with Camp Host upon arrival.
Check out 12:00 PM Check in 2:00 PM. Check in is no earlier than 2:00 PM unless arrangements have been made with Recreation in advance.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
- OHV use is prohibited in the main campground. All off road vehicles must remain on trailer's in main campground. They may be off loaded and loaded in day use area by the boat dock. - Dogs must be on a leash at all times. - No discharging of firearms or possession of fireworks allowed. - Some campsites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. - Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from the area after eating. - Don't Move Firewood: Please protect Pacific Northwest forests by preventing the spread of invasive species. Firewood can carry insects and diseases that can threaten the health of our western forests. You can make a difference by obtaining and burning your firewood near your camping destination. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information. - Camping or otherwise occupying a single location (including leaving camping equipment and/or related supplies) for a period longer than 14 consecutive calendar days within a 30-day period is prohibited. ‘Location’ means the occupied area, the occupied campsite, and the National Forest System lands in the immediate vicinity thereof. - Additional vehicles after the first 2 will require an additional $5 fee (per additional vehicle) paid on site. - Motorized boating (gas or electric) is prohibited on the lake. - Trash service is not available at this site. If you pack it in, please pack it out.
Dump station available for $10.00 Pay station at dump site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 30 · 1 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…1 group campsite, and 8 accessible vault toilets. Potable water is available seasonally throughout…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…25-28). While this campground offers potable water, there is no garbage service so please pack out all…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Berry Picking
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Mushroom Picking
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Paddle Boating
- Picnicking
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
42 of 56 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:45 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
“Single sites: Extra $5 fee per vehicle exceeding the two-vehicle-per-site allowance Double sites: Site 8, 11, 12, 20, and 26 are $19/night, up to 5 vehicles allowed Group sites: Site 10 is $25/night, up to 10 vehicles…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$19 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.
“A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refund for a cancellation. Individual Campsites: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation).” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 7
recreation.gov availability, read 16:45 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
30 sites
All 30 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. 29 of the 30 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Bull Prairie Lake | 1 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 10 | group standard nonelectric | |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 11 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 12 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 13 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 14 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 15 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 16 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 17 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 18 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 19 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 2 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 20 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 21 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 22 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 23 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 24 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 25 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 26 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 27 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 28 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 29 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 3 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 30 | tent only nonelectric | $14 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 4 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 5 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 6 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 7 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 8 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
| Bull Prairie Lake | 9 | standard nonelectric | $14–$19 |
25 of 30 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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Ditch Creek Guard Station CabUmatilla National Forest · 19 miMuleshoe CampgroundPrineville Central Oregon Field Office · 19 miFrom Heppner, Oregon: Travel south on Highway 207 for approximately 36 miles. Turn east on Forest Service Road 2039 and follow signs to Bull Prairie Recreational Area.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Spray, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 22°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
Bull Prairie Campground (OR) 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 →