Devil's Flat Campground
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- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 43 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Enjoy a beautiful drive through the picturesque Cow Creek drainage on your way to one of the most interesting campgrounds in the Umpqua. Located under a bluff and surrounded by a forest of cedar, pine, and madrone, Devil’s Flat is a small campground with three campsites, a bevy of hiking opportunities, and a handful of historic landmarks. On the north side of the campground, you can see the stone ruins of an old water fixture built by the Civilian Conservation Corps “Fire-Eaters” in the 1930s. On the south side is the old Devil's Flat Guard Station, where you’ll find a Ranger Cabin built in 1915 and a 1920s-era horse barn. Near the ranger cabin, in a fir tree, you can also see the tiki carving that gave Devil’s Flat its name. Keep reading
Recreation
Devil’s Flat offers easy access to beautiful hikes of varying length and difficulty: Cow Creek Falls Trail #1422 makes a 0.3-mile loop along cascading Cow Creek Gorge. Elk’s Skull Bluff Trail #1428A makes a 0.5-mile loop from the campground to a vantage point of the Upper Cow Creek drainage. Maranatha Trail #1422A travels 1.5 miles to a viewpoint over the Cow Creek drainage. Devil’s Flat Trail #1428 leads five miles to the top of Red Mountain.
Facilities
Three tent/trailer sites Vault Toilet Each site has a picnic table and fire ring Open year-round; first come, first serve Gravel Road, Spurs, and Parking Maximum Vehicle Length: 22 feet Natural Features Visitors to the Umpqua National Forest are often taken aback by the unique landscapes of southwestern Oregon. High Cascades glaciation, whitewater rapids, and explosive geologic events have shaped the distinctive landscape on the 983,239 acres of forest that provides spectacular scenery as well as an abundance of natural and cultural resources. Verdant stands of hemlock, fir and cedar transition to forests of mixed conifers and hardwoods at lower elevations, while alpine ecosystems dominate high peaks. The translation of the word "Umpqua," meaning "thundering waters," defines the area. The Forest's waterways and diversity create desirable habitat for many species of fish and wildlife, in addition to providing outstanding recreational opportunities to our local communities and visitors.
Nearby Attractions
Galesville Reservoir Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 440-4930.
Charges & Cancellations
This is a Scan and Pay campground . There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with Scan and Pay payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded.
What the agency tells you
- Campfires are allowed in Forest Service installed metal fire rings when conditions allow. Learn more about current fire information: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/umpqua/fire/info - Quiet hours between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. - Check in: 1:00 p.m.; Check out: 11:00 a.m. - Electric or water hook ups are not available. - Drinking water is not available, please bring your own. - Trash facilities are not available; pack it in, pack it out - Fireworks are prohibited. - OHV/ATV use is prohibited in the campground. - There is no cell phone coverage - Dogs must be on a leash. - Maximum length of stay anywhere on the forest is 14 days. - Must pay via Scan & Pay onsite with the Recreation.gov app. - $5.00 per extra vehicle per night.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 4
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 22 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 4 of 4 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Creek
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Night sky · 549th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:46 UTC
recreation.gov lists 3 of the 4 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee $5 per vehicle per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
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.
“This is a Scan and Pay campground. There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with Scan and Pay payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded.” · 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 · 7
recreation.gov availability, read 15:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 3 mapped sitesAll 4 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. 4 of the 4 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Devil's Flat | 1 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 157 ft | 596 ft | $10 |
| Devil's Flat | 2 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 157 ft | 633 ft | $10 |
| Devil's Flat | 3 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 308 ft | 351 ft | $10 |
| Extra Vehicle Fee | Extra Vehicle Fee | type not stated | 22 ft | $5 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Threehorn CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 8.2 mi
Elderberry FlatMedford Butte Falls Field Office · 11 mi
Pickett Butte LookoutUmpqua National Forest · 12 mi
Three C Rock CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 12 mi
Whisky Camp Guard StationUmpqua National Forest · 16 mi
Butler Butte CabinRogue River National Forest · 18 miFrom Azalea, OR, travel east on County Road 36 for about 17 miles to Devil’s Flat Campground, located on the left side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Days Creek, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Devil's Flat 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 →