U.S. Forest Service · Rogue River National Forest · OR

Carberry Group Campground

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ReservableBookable through December 31; an off-peak season follows January 1 to April 30.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Taking bookingsSites offered on 29 of the next 30 nights; a database flag says not open read 14:23 UTC
Sites
1All of them booked ahead
2,030 ftElevation
221 ftWater · Applegate Lake
14.1 miSW of Ruch, OR
86%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 517th darkest of 770 in OR

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices

In the agency’s own words

This facility is a Group/ Facility Campsite, whereby you reserve the ENTIRE facility for your use. You get the gate code and have a HUGE parking lot behind a locked gate with 11 campsites. Some near parking lot some close by nestled against Cooper Creek. Close walk to river access which goes to Applegate Lake. Open year round. Perfect for RV's, campers etc. Great spot to set up camp for hunting, fishing parties etc. Keep reading

Recreation

Creekside camping, with easy access to Applegate Lake and surrounding wilderness. This campsite is used for hunting groups, large gatherings of all types as well as small groups.

Facilities

The campground is LOCKED. Please check-in at Hart Tish Park General Store to get the key for the campground. Forest Service vault toilets. Fire rings, Picnic tables. Close to Cooper Creek and walk to river access to Applegate Lake.

Natural Features

Creekside camping, with easy access to Applegate Lake and surrounding creeks and river. Copper creek runs through part of this campground.

Nearby Attractions

Applegate Lake, Jacksonville, Britt Festival, Hunting and fishing, vineyards, wilderness, hiking, Bigfoot Trap....

What the agency tells you

Rule

The campground is LOCKED. Please check-in at Hart Tish Park General Store to get the key for the campground.

Rule

This campsite is a Group/ Facility Campsite, whereby you reserve the ENTIRE facility for your use.

Rule

Reservations MUST be made 2+-days prior to arrival to ensure facility is clean and ready for your use. To check for day of availability you can visit The General Store at Hart-Tish Park or by calling 541-899-9220.

Everything else this campground posts · 1
Rule

Cancellations: Recreation.gov collects an $8 reservation fee, which is non-refundable. The campsite cancellation fee is a flat $10 for your entire reservation. EXAMPLE: if you booked (2) nites at $75 per nite, your total camping fee would be $158. If you cancelled at least 48-hours prior to your reservation arrival, your refund would be: $158-$8-$10 = $140 net refund. If you late cancel (within 48-hr of your arrival), you will also forfeit the first-nite camping fee. In this same example, you would be refunded: $158-$8-$10-$75 = $65 net refund. Processing refunds is time-consuming & expensive for the facility, and we potentially will not refill your camping spot. This loses revenue for the facility due to your situation & circumstances changing. The Facility is NOT responsible for acts of God / weather / fire-restrictions / smoke / or other things outside the control of the facility. If we are not evacuated/camp hosts on site we cannot refund. Thanks for your understanding. If you have any questions, please email: info@applegatelake.com

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
1 · 1 group, 1 cabin
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Pit Toilets
PIT TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
Store
Nearby
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, River, Creek
Berry Picking
Hunting
Kayaking
Mountain biking
Paddle Boating
Water access
Wildlife viewing
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Something open on 29 of the next 29 bookable nightsread 14:23 UTC

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

OpenBookedNot reservable

Booking windowThrough December 31Bookable now through December 31, 2026, the end of the peak season. The off-peak season that follows runs January 1, 2027 through April 30, 2027; recreation.gov releases it on its own schedule, so check there before counting on those nights.recreation.gov
Sites, a night, from$75From the rate schedule matched to 1 of its 1 sites. U.S. Forest Service publishes no campground-level rate we can read.derived by CAMPANAC
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
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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Fri, Jan 1 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
Sites, a night, from$75
Derived by CAMPANAC from the rate schedule matched to 1 of its 1 sites. U.S. Forest Service publishes no campground-level rate for this campground that we can read, only per-site rate templates its own record matches to each site’s own type.
Group area, a night$75
Rates for the season the campground is in now, May 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.
Night for the ENTIRE Campground .$75
Now open year-round.
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
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
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

recreation.gov availability, read 14:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

1 sites

All 1 sites

SleepsUp 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today75°Mostly Sunny
Tonight45°Partly Cloudy
Sunday75°Sunny
Sunday Night43°Partly Cloudy1% rain

NWS forecast for Williams, OR

Typical weather

Typical October night 39°F, day 72°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°32°20°

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: CAVE JUNCTION 1 WNW, OR (USC00351448), 26 miles away and 653 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Roadless
Kangaroo5,969 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Kinney7,505 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Little Grayback7,986 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area

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

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 30, 2026

Who answers for this land

Cliff Bentz, official portrait

Carberry Group 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: recreation.gov is offering sites on 29 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
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: Williams, OR, 12.7 mi SSE (a census designated place). Straight line.