Castle Rock Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $8From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Located south of Prineville, Oregon, this six-site campground offers year-round camping and Crooked River access along the Lower Crooked Back Country Byway. Castle Rock looms above its namesake campground on the Chimney Rock section of the Crooked Wild and Scenic River. An ADA-accessible vault toilet is onsite. Keep reading
Know Before You Go
Open year-round on a first-come, first-served basis; no potable water available. Cell phone service is not available in the campground. Watch for bicyclists: the section of State Highway 27 between Prineville and Bowman dam is a state scenic bikeway Point of Interest Castle Rock Campground is the first in a series of twelve Bureau of Land Management recreation sites along the Crooked Wild and Scenic River, south of Prineville, Oregon. Eight additional campgrounds, two day-use areas and a trailhead offer ample access to camping, fishing, hiking and photography.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Wild and Scenic River. An ADA-accessible vault toilet is onsite. Know Before You Go Open year-round on a…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…on a first-come, first-served basis; no potable water available. Cell phone service is not available in…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Fishing
- Cell signal · Cell signal · BLM says
- None
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $8 with nothing added. 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 · 7
What you actually pay
“$2 per extra vehicle (tow vehicles excluded) with a maximum of two vehicles allowed per site.” · the Bureau of Land Management’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($8), 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 · 6
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Stillwater CampgroundPrineville Deschutes Field Office · 0.9 mi
Chimney Rock CampgroundPrineville Deschutes Field Office · 1.9 mi
Lone Pine CampgroundPrineville Deschutes Field Office · 2.0 mi
Cobble Rock CampgroundPrineville Deschutes Field Office · 2.4 mi
Poison Butte CampgroundPrineville Deschutes Field Office · 3.1 mi
Big Bend Campground3.7 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Juniper Canyon, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 24°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
Castle Rock 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…first-served basis; no potable water available. Cell phone service is not available in the campground. Watch for bicyclists: the section of State…”