Chewaucan Crossing Campground/Trailhead
1Heads up1 fire 49 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This highly used campground is ideally located right on the Chewaucan River, 20 minutes south of Paisley, Oregon. Chewaucan Crossing Trailhead, within the campground, accesses Fremont National Recreation Trail #160 a multi-use trail, and a challenging trek in both directions as hikers must climb out of the river canyon. You can hike, mountain bike, or horseback ride north to Yamsay Mountain or south to Cox Pass. A pedestrian bridge crosses the river and links to the trail. There are many fishing opportunities for rainbow and brook trout. The site is surrounded by a high desert, pine, and juniper setting. Amenities include a vault toilet, parking area, adequate trailer turnaround, horse corrals, and each of the five campsites has a picnic table and fire ring. Alert : There is no potable water. Visitors need to pack plenty of water. Remember to "pack it in, pack it out."
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and juniper setting. Amenities include a vault toilet, parking area, adequate trailer turnaround, horse…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…a picnic table and fire ring. Alert : There is no potable water. Visitors need to pack plenty of water. Remember to…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. 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 · 4
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, 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 · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
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the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Paisley, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 21°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
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Chewaucan Crossing Campground/Trailhead 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 →