U.S. Forest Service · Kisatchie National Forest · LA
Enduro Camp
1Heads up1 fire 3.5 mi away
Wildfire
Turkey Creek fire · 3.5 mi away · 232 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 14, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 14, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
270 ftElevation
3,279 ftWater · an unnamed pond
10.5 miSE of Fort Polk North, LA
49%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 11th darkest of 22 in LA
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The Enduro camp has vaulted restrooms. There are no trash receptacles so please bring out what you bring in. There is no water available at this site so be sure to bring plenty of your own.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…so please bring out what you bring in. There is no water available at this site so be sure to bring plenty…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The Enduro Camp has a $10/single site/night fee.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near hereFullerton Recreation AreaKisatchie National Forest · 2.0 miValentine Lake Recreation AreaKisatchie National Forest · 26 miLoran CampKisatchie National Forest · 28 mi
Kincaid Lake CampgroundKisatchie National Forest · 29 mi
Kincaid Lake Swim Area CLOSED, Camping CLOSEDKisatchie National Forest · 30 miKisatchie Bayou Recreation AreaKisatchie National Forest · 31 mi
Kincaid Lake CampgroundKisatchie National Forest · 29 miKincaid Lake Swim Area CLOSED, Camping CLOSEDKisatchie National Forest · 30 miKisatchie Bayou Recreation AreaKisatchie National Forest · 31 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
This Afternoon70°Sunny
Tonight47°Clear
Sunday73°Sunny
Sunday Night47°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Pitkin, LA
Source: National Weather Service, LCH forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 56°F, day 80°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 39°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
100°30°
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.
Measured at: ROSEPINE RSCH STN, LA (USC00168046), 16 miles away and 32 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Enduro Camp is in Louisiana’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Mike Johnson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 17, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Pitkin, LA, 5.2 mi NW (a census designated place). Straight line.