Fox Creek Group Camp
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 18 mi
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – October 31Open May 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fox Creek Group Camp is situated in a large, open area surrounded by dense forest near the point where Fox Creek flows in the Breitenbush River. The groups site accommodates tent campers plus RVs and trailers of any size. The groups site caters to groups of up to 75 guests with ample parking. It is equipped with an accessible vault toilet, dumpster, campfire rings and picnic tables. The campground is a short walk from the Breitenbush River, a tributary of Oregon's North Santiam River, at an elevation of 1,700 feet. The river's clean waters flow from short forks of snow melt in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. There is no water service at this site. Reservations for this site can be made up to 12 months in advance of arrival date by reserving online at RECREATION.GOV or by calling 877-444-6777. Keep reading
Recreation
Fox Creek is a central access point to miles of scenic hiking trails. Willamette National Forest boasts 1,700 miles of trails, many of which trek through wilderness areas like the nearby Mount Jefferson Wilderness. Campers can fish and swim in the Breitenbush River. Rainbow trout is the most common catch for anglers.
Facilities
No drinking water is available at this site. The group site caters to groups of up to 75 guests with ample parking. It is equipped with an accessible vault toilet, dumpster, campfire rings and picnic tables.
Natural Features
The campground is a short walk from the Breitenbush River, a tributary of Oregon's North Santiam River, at an elevation of 1,700 feet. The river's clean waters flow from short forks of snow melt in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. The Willamette National Forest stretches for 110 miles along the western slopes of the Cascade Range in western Oregon. The varied landscape of high mountains, narrow canyons, cascading streams, and wooded slopes offer excellent sightseeing and recreation opportunities.
Nearby Attractions
Head to Detroit Lake for a variety of activities including power boating, water skiing, kayaking and canoeing. Within 10 miles there are also opportunities for off-highway vehicle recreation, hunting, hiking, backpacking, scenic driving, and soaking in hot springs. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 967-3917.
What the agency tells you
There is no water at this facility; visitors must bring their own.
Fires in campfire rings only.
For more information on Willamette National Forest, click here
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Don't Move Firewood: Please protect Pacific Northwest forests by preventing the spread of invasive species. Firewood can carry insects and diseases that can threaten the health of our western forests. You can make a difference by obtaining and burning your firewood near your camping destination. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Contact the Detroit Ranger Station for the combination to the gate before you arrive if you do not receive it with your reservation details. Make sure to lock the gate when you leave.
No discharging firearms, no possession of fireworks, and no use of chainsaws.
Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and the check-out time is 11:00 a.m.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…It is equipped with an accessible vault toilet, dumpster, campfire rings and picnic tables. The…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…melt in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. There is no water service at this site. Reservations for this site…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Lake, River, Creek
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 578th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
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.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
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
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FOX CREEK GROUP CAMP | Fox1 | group standard area nonelectric | 40 ft | 374 ft | $65 |
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 · the phone number
Where it is
Humbug CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 1.6 mi
Gold Butte LookoutWillamette National Forest · 2.3 mi
Cleator BendWillamette National Forest · 2.5 mi
Breitenbush CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 2.9 miElk Lake (OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 4.7 miElk Lake CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 4.7 miFrom Detroit, Oregon, drive east on State Highway 22. After crossing the bridge, take a left onto Forest Service Road (FSR) 46/Breitenbush. Follow FSR 46 for about 6.5 miles to Fox Creek Group Camp.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Detroit, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 47°F, day 61°F.
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
Fox Creek Group Camp is in Oregon’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Janelle Bynum (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →