U.S. Forest Service · Siskiyou National Forest · OR
Butler Bar Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 31 mi
Wildfire
W Fork Whiskey Creek fire · 31 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Wildfire
Crooks Creek Rd 3440 fire · 49 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 15, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
620 ftElevation
176 ftWater · Elk RiverOcean · 8.6 mi · to the Pacific Ocean
21.5 miNE of Gold Beach, OR
41%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 169th darkest of 770 in OR
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Butler Bar Campground has primitive camping with access to the Wild and Scenic Elk River , and is adjacent to the Copper-Salmon Wilderness and Grassy Knob Wilderness . Planning to ride the Wild Coast Scenic Bikeway ? This is one of the campgrounds along the way! Keep reading
Facilities
7 campsites with picnic tables, and fire pits No drinking water Vault toilet No garbage disposal - Please pack it out
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “No drinking water Vault toilet”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…with picnic tables, and fire pits No drinking water Vault toilet No garbage disposal - Please pack it…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Coast
Source: Stated in the agency description
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near hereSunshine Bar CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 2.2 mi
Laird Lake CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 3.8 mi
Sixes River Campground ORCoos Bay Myrtlewood Field Office · 5.9 mi
Edson Creek Campground (OR)Coos Bay Myrtlewood Field Office · 9.4 mi
Rock Creek CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 11 mi
Daphne Grove CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 11 mi
Laird Lake CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 3.8 miSixes River Campground ORCoos Bay Myrtlewood Field Office · 5.9 miEdson Creek Campground (OR)Coos Bay Myrtlewood Field Office · 9.4 miRock Creek CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 11 miDaphne Grove CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 11 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today65°Partly Sunny7% rain
Tonight46°Partly Cloudy4% rain
Sunday63°Mostly Sunny
Sunday Night43°Mostly Cloudy4% rain
NWS forecast for Port Orford, OR
Source: National Weather Service, MFR forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
80°30°
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.
Measured at: PORT ORFORD #2, OR (USC00356784), 12 miles away and 578 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
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Butler Bar Campground is in Oregon’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Val Hoyle (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →
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.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 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: Port Orford, OR, 10.7 mi E. Straight line.