Farewell Bend Campground
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 6156 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – October 31Open May 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Farewell Bend Campground was constructed in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corp. The campground is located 18 miles west of Crater Lake National Park and in the midst of an old growth forest. There are 60 campsites that can accommodate trailers, rvs and tents. The Rogue River is located within the campground allowing for fishing and swimming. Union Creek Resort is within a mile from the campground and provides access to a convenience store, restaurant, ice cream shop and lodging. Keep reading
Recreation
The entire length of the Upper Rogue River is closely followed by the Upper Rogue River Trail. The trail is hiker-only and easily traveled for short segments at a time. Hikers can also enjoy the Rogue Gorge Trail System that travels from Farewell Bend Campground through Union Creek Campground and down to Natural Bridge Day Use Area.
Facilities
This large campground contains a variety of campsites to accommodatetents trailers and rvs. Drinking water and flush toilets are provided, as well as picnic tables and campfire rings. Firewood is available for purchase at the Campground Host Site.
Natural Features
The Upper Rogue River is fed by snowmelt and springs originating on the peaks of the Cascade Range, including the slopes of Mt. Mazama—the volcanic caldera that contains Crater Lake. Along the uppermost portion of the Upper Rogue, the river is narrow and shallow, but very swift. The river has, for a two-mile stretch, carved more than 200 feet down into the Mazama pumice (which was deposited about 8,000 years ago during the explosion that created Crater Lake). Downstream, the Upper Rogue passes through the narrow, turbulent Rogue Gorge of black lava and soon plunges entirely underground (into a lava tube) for about 250 feet at Natural Bridge. Interpretive trails at both of these places provide good views of the river, with signs that explain the natural history. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 560-3400.
Nearby Attractions
Diamond Lake Resort, Crater Lake National Park, Lost Creek Lake, Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway, National Falls, Rogue Gorge, Natural Bridge and Mount McLoughlin are all wonderful sights to see.
What the agency tells you
Caution: Bears frequent the area. Be aware, keep a clean camp and store all food items in closed containers.
One vehicle is included in campsite fee, an additional fee for extra vehicles must be paid at campground.
First-come, first-served sites are available.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Off-road vehicles are not allowed in the campground.
For current conditions at Farewell Bend Campground, please call the High Cascades Ranger District at 541-560-3400.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 61 · 5 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…trailers and rvs. Drinking water and flush toilets are provided, as well as picnic tables and campfire…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…to accommodatetents trailers and rvs. Drinking water and flush toilets are provided, as well as picnic…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Night sky · 238th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 56 of the 61 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 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
63 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 56 mapped sitesAll 63 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 61 of the 63 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 61 of the 63 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 104 ft | 141 ft | 888 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 57 ft | 865 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 56 ft | 64 ft | 813 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 56 ft | 70 ft | 763 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 46 ft | 67 ft | 712 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 46 ft | 78 ft | 683 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 007 & 008 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 51 ft | 104 ft | 648 ft | $44 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 008 | type not stated | 40 ft | 108 ft | 621 ft | $22–$44 | |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 009 & 010 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 129 ft | 125 ft | 576 ft | $44 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 010 | type not stated | 40 ft | 162 ft | 550 ft | $22–$44 | |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 011 Host | host pad | 40 ft | 88 ft | 156 ft | 552 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 012 Host | host pad | 40 ft | 74 ft | 154 ft | 580 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 161 ft | 609 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 147 ft | 644 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 220 ft | 563 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 176 ft | 660 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 121 ft | 695 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 67 ft | 110 ft | 741 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 64 ft | 113 ft | 793 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 64 ft | 174 ft | 743 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 120 ft | 842 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 62 ft | 113 ft | 954 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 105 ft | 1,011 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 93 ft | 1,067 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 66 ft | 85 ft | 1,129 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 104 ft | 94 ft | 1,213 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 60 ft | 116 ft | 1,177 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 27 ft | 1,266 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 60 ft | 113 ft | 1,180 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 64 ft | 19 ft | 1,278 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 64 ft | 17 ft | 1,287 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 66 ft | 16 ft | 1,298 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 033 & 034 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 82 ft | 99 ft | 1,207 ft | $44 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 034 | type not stated | 40 ft | 109 ft | 1,208 ft | $22–$44 | |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 035 & 036 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 14 ft | 1,315 ft | $44 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 036 | type not stated | 40 ft | 21 ft | 1,331 ft | $22–$44 | |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 037 & 038 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 107 ft | 107 ft | 1,242 ft | $44 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 038 | type not stated | 40 ft | 131 ft | 1,272 ft | $22–$44 | |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 039 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 135 ft | 47 ft | 1,514 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 040 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 114 ft | 67 ft | 1,617 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 041 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 101 ft | 131 ft | 1,670 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 042 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 101 ft | 189 ft | 1,722 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 043 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 291 ft | 1,685 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 044 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 334 ft | 1,729 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 045 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 222 ft | 1,828 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 046 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 337 ft | 1,789 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 047 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 250 ft | 1,876 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 048 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 305 ft | 1,873 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 049 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 135 ft | 342 ft | 1,818 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 050 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 112 ft | 441 ft | 1,889 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 051 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 103 ft | 477 ft | 1,810 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 052 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 103 ft | 492 ft | 1,712 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 053 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 106 ft | 512 ft | 1,578 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 054 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 106 ft | 602 ft | 1,593 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 055 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 120 ft | 548 ft | 1,458 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 056 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 151 ft | 473 ft | 1,316 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 057 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 415 ft | 1,217 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 058 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 325 ft | 1,260 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 059 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 123 ft | 343 ft | 1,061 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 060 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 109 ft | 464 ft | 949 ft | $22 |
| FAREWELL BEND CAMPGROUND | 061 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 109 ft | 519 ft | 852 ft | $22 |
| S&P | Group Standard S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $22–$44 | |||
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $22–$44 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 63 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Union Creek Campground - Rogue RiverRogue River National Forest · 0.9 miNatural Bridge CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 2.1 miAbbott Creek CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 4.4 mi
Jim Creek Group CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 5.2 miRiver Bridge CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 7.1 mi
Mill Creek CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 8.5 miFrom Medford, OR, take OR-62 (Crater Lake Hwy) about 12 miles past Prospect to Farewell Bend Campground. From Klamath Falls, travel north on US 97 to OR-62 (Crater Lake Hwy). Travel west about 15 miles past Crater Lake National Park to Farewell Bend Campground, at the intersection of OR-62 and OR-230.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Prospect, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 70°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 38°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Farewell Bend 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 →