Dougherty Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 45 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 12All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Dougherty Campground is situated in an open pine forest and grassland near the northern boundary of the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. The site offers 4 tent/trailer sites, and 8 tent-only sites. Primary activities include camping, picnicking, berry picking and hunting during the fall season. Use season is generally June through early October. Quiet hours are 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. Keep reading
Facilities
Dougherty Campground has 12 campsites that offer picnic tables, fire rings and parking spaces.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Wildlife viewing
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
12 sites
All 12 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. 12 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Dougherty | 01 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Dougherty | 02 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Dougherty | 03 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Dougherty | 04 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Dougherty | 05 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Dougherty | 06 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Dougherty | 07 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Dougherty | 08 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Dougherty | 09 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Dougherty | 10 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Dougherty | 11 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Dougherty | 12 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Buckhorn CampgroundHells Canyon National Recreation Area · 12 mi
Wenatchee Guard StationUmatilla National Forest · 25 miWickiup CampgroundUmatilla National Forest · 28 miMisery Spring CampgroundUmatilla National Forest · 29 miPittsburg CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 31 miFrom Enterprise, Oregon travel north on Highway 3 for 14 miles to Forest Road 46; Turn right on Forest Road 46 and go about 13 miles to the Crow Creek Road; Turn left on Crow Creek Road and go about 1 mile; Turn right on the Chesnimus Creek Road (will become Forest Road 4625) go about 6.5 miles to Forest Road 4670; Turn left on Forest Service Road 4670 and go north 9.5 miles towards Billy Meadows; After Billy Meadows Guard Station look for Forest Road 46 and turn right on this road; Go about 1.8 miles on Forest Road 46; The campground entrance is located to the left off Forest Service 46 on the 583 road.
Note: most of the roads are graveled.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Anatone, WA
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
Dougherty 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 →