U.S. Forest Service · Umatilla National Forest · OR
Fairview Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 17 mi
Wildfire
0489 Parrish fire · 17 mi away · 404 acres · 100% contained · updated Aug 10, 2026
Wildfire
0446 Camel Hump fire · 21 mi away · 6,789 acres · 100% contained · updated Sep 12, 2026
Wildfire
0445 Crosswhite fire · 26 mi away · 342,923 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 3, 2026
Wildfire
0444 Twickenham fire · 27 mi away · 254 acres · 100% contained · updated Aug 10, 2026
Wildfire
0442 Redrock fire · 28 mi away · 256 acres · 100% contained · updated Aug 10, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 3, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
4,320 ftElevation
2,444 ftWater · Wilson Creek
27.9 miSW of Heppner, OR
35%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 106th darkest of 770 in OR
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Fairview Camp is drive-through loop off State Highway 207 offering five campsites and an accessible vault toilet. Two campsites directly across from the toilet are fully accessible. A free-flowing water fountain provides potable water from May to October. Remnants from a wildfire in the late 1980s can be seen along the egdes of this small campground. There is no garbage service, so please pack out all garbage and dispose of it at home. The campground is used primarily for hunting and OHV riding--its trailhead accesses 80 miles of OHV roads and trails on the Heppner Ranger District. Keep reading
Also, Morrow County OHV Park is only 6 miles north on State Highway 207 and offers over 200 miles of OHV marked and groomed trails. The main season of use is from late fall to early winter during big game hunting season. It also serves as an overflow camping site when Bull Prairie Lake Campground is at full capacity.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…five campsites and an accessible vault toilet. Two campsites directly across from the toilet are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are fully accessible. A free-flowing water fountain provides potable water from May to October.…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
Source: Stated in the agency description
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 5
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.
This is a fee free campsite.
All campsites are first come first serve.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
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 here
Bull Prairie Campground (OR)Umatilla National Forest · 2.6 mi
Tamarack CabinUmatilla National Forest · 6.2 mi
Lone Pine CampgroundPrineville Central Oregon Field Office · 13 miBig Bend CampgroundPrineville Central Oregon Field Office · 13 miMuleshoe CampgroundPrineville Central Oregon Field Office · 16 mi
John Day River Basin Developed Campgrounds18 mi
Bull Prairie Campground (OR)Umatilla National Forest · 2.6 miTamarack CabinUmatilla National Forest · 6.2 miLone Pine CampgroundPrineville Central Oregon Field Office · 13 miBig Bend CampgroundPrineville Central Oregon Field Office · 13 miMuleshoe CampgroundPrineville Central Oregon Field Office · 16 miJohn Day River Basin Developed Campgrounds18 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 Afternoon72°Mostly Sunny
Tonight44°Mostly Cloudy
Saturday62°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night38°Partly Cloudy
NWS forecast for Spray, OR
Source: National Weather Service, PDT forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 22°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
90°32°10°
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: LONG CREEK, OR (USC00355020), 34 miles away and 580 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Fairview 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
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: Spray, OR, 9 mi NNE. Straight line.