Cave Creek Campground
6Heads up1 park alert · 5 fires, nearest 13 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 2 of the next 2 nights read 15:53 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 17All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cave Creek Campground is open for reservations Memorial Day - Labor Day weekends. Sites are open to tent camping only and cannot accommodate RVs or travel trailers. Reservations are accepted 1 month in advance either online or at one of the visitor centers between 9 am and 4 pm. Visitor centers are located at 201 Caves Highway and 21000 Caves Highway, Cave Junction, Oregon 97523. Only credit/debit cards are accepted for all cave tour fees, campground fees, and Interagency Passes. Entrance to Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve is free, but cave access is only available with a guide. Keep reading
The Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve offers a variety of hiking trails through old growth forests, high mountain meadows, or along babbling moutain creeks. The surface areas of the park remain open year-round. There is no fee to enter the park or hike the surface hiking trails. Looking for an adventure? Explore a mountain inside and out. Twist and bend through angled marble passages deep underground on a ranger-guided tour of the Oregon Caves. Wonder at the smooth flowstones, stalactites and stalagmites. Above ground, you can hike old growth forests and high mountain meadows. Visit, discover, and have fun. Cave tours generally run late March through early November. Hiking trails are open year-round.
Recreation
Hiking trails.
Facilities
Camping site, campfire rings, picnic tables, drinking water and vault toilets Natural Features Cave Creek running through the campground and surrounded by old growth forest.
Nearby Attractions
Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve Charges & Cancellations Cancellation must be submitted at least 24 hours prior to your selected time to receive a refund. You may cancel online or by calling (877) 444-6777. On site refunds are not available. Expect construction and other summer traffic related delays when planning your route through Hwy. 199 and Hwy. 46.
What the agency tells you
Cave Creek Campground is open for tent camping only. Sites cannot accommodate RVs or Travel Trailers.
The drive from Cave Junction to the Oregon Caves takes a minimum of 60 Minutes. *Please, DO NOT, trust Google Map, GPS devices and similar applications - from the east these direct you through Williams, Oregon and over a confusing route on mountainous gravel roads. Western travelers are promised an earlier arrival time than safely possible. *Maintain your lane. We understand the route is narrow and mountainous, but for your safety and everyone else traveling Hwy. 46, please, maintain your lane at all times.
If you have a pet be prepared! Pets must be on a leash and stay on paved roads when not in a vehicle. Pets are prohibited on trails, inside the cave, and in park facilities. Pets may be left unattended in vehicles, however, please be aware that if pets display signs of distress due to conditions such as hot weather, owners may be cited for endangering an animal. Whenever possible, please leave your pets at home, or look into nearby boarding options.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
No Wifi or cell service in the campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 17 · 17 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Paved pads
- 16 of 17
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- 16 of 17 sites
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Meadow
- Birding
- Caving
- Environmental Education
- Evening Programs
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Hunting
- Information Site
- Ranger programs
- Mountain biking
- Picnicking
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Visitor center
- Night sky · 524th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
34 of 34 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:53 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
These counts cover the 17 reservable sites only. This campground also has first-come sites, and recreation.gov publishes no availability for a site you can’t reserve.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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.
“Cancellation must be submitted at least 24 hours prior to your selected time to receive a refund. You may cancel online or by calling (877) 444-6777. On site refunds are not available. Expect construction and other summer traffic related delays when planning your route through Hwy. 199 and Hwy. 46.” · 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:53 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
17 sites
All 17 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. 17 of the 17 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Main Loop | Site #1 | tent only nonelectric | $20 | |
| Main Loop | Site #10 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #11 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #12 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #13 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #14 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #15 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #16 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #17 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #18 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #2 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #4 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #5 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #6 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #7 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #8 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
| Main Loop | Site #9 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Chinquapin Group CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 3.8 mi
Grayback Campground4.5 mi
Bolan Lake CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 6.2 mi
Bolan Mountain LookoutSiskiyou National Forest · 6.7 miWest Branch CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 12 mi
Carberry Group CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 13 miThe drive from Cave Junction to the Cave Creek Campground takes a minimum of 45 minutes. The last 8 miles up the Caves Highway are narrow, steep, and winding. Large RV's and Travel Trailers are not recommended. Car sickness is a real possibility.
For Googlemap and similar applications, enter "Oregon Caves" - make sure "Oregon Caves National Monument" comes up as your destination.
DO NOT trust Google Map, GPS devices and similar applications - from the east these direct you through Williams Oregon and over a confusing route on mountainous gravel roads.
From I-5/Grants Pass:
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Williams, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 32°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Cave Creek 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 →