Coverdale Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 7All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The Coverdale Campground is situated along the Wild and Scenic Imnaha River in the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. This small rustic campground with 7 sites offers both tent and trailer sites near the river in an open ponderosa pine and fir setting. Popular activities include fishing, day hikes, relaxing, picnicking and photography. Drinking water is located at the Indian Crossing and Ollokot Campgrounds seasonally. Primary use season is from June to September. Quiet hours are from 10pm to 6am. Keep reading
Facilities
The campground has 7 campsites with picnic tables, fire rings and parking spaces.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 7
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…relaxing, picnicking and photography. Drinking water is located at the Indian Crossing and Ollokot…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 35 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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Every line of the receipt · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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.
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
7 sites
All 7 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. 7 of the 7 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 agency’s directions
Where it is
OlloKot CampgroundHells Canyon National Recreation Area · 3.8 miIndian Crossing CampgroundHells Canyon National Recreation Area · 4.5 mi
Lick Creek CampgroundHells Canyon National Recreation Area · 6.4 mi
Twin Lakes CampgroundHells Canyon National Recreation Area · 6.7 mi
Lake Fork CampgroundHells Canyon National Recreation Area · 6.8 miFrom Enterprise, Oregon travel south on Oregon State 82 to Joseph for about 6.5 miles; In Joseph turn left on Oregon State 350 for about 8 miles; Turn right on the Wallowa Loop Road (also known as the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway or Wallowa Mountain Loop Road); Travel on this road which eventually becomes Forest Road 39 for 30 miles; Before Imnaha River bridge turn right on Forest Road 3960 and go 4 miles along Imnaha River; Campground entrance is on the left near the Imnaha River.
From Halfway, Oregon head east out of town on Record Road to Highway 86 for 1 mile; Travel east on Highway 86 for 9 miles to Wallowa Loop Road (also known as Forest Road 39 and Hells Canyon Scenic Byway) towards Enterprise and Joseph; Travel about 23 miles on Forest Road 39 to Forest Road 3960; . Turn left off Forest Road 39 onto Forest Road 3960 and go 4 miles to campground; Campground entrance is signed on left near the Imnaha River.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wallowa Lake, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 18°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Coverdale 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 →