Grayback Campground
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 4039 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
This campground is located in a beautiful forested setting, with the Oregon Caves National Momunent located approximately 5 miles further down the road. Several of the campsites are located along Sucker Creek, which also provides cool waters to jump in or just soak your feet in on hot summer days. Revel in the amazing biodiversity that is so unique to the Illinois Valley by venturing out on the 1-mile, family-friendly Grayback Interpretive Trail that leads to Grayback Creek and around the historical Civilian Conservation Corps camp at the Cedar Guard Station. There is a pleasant day use area with a small amphitheater and a large picnic area, complete with shelters and a fireplace. Keep reading
Recreation
There is hiking, swimming and fishing available at the campground.
Facilities
39 campsites (tent-sites) with picnic tables, and fire pits 10 day use sites Drinking water Vault toilets Garbage disposal Campground host available Amphitheater style benches with a small stage Natural Features Campground features scenic access to Sucker Creek and Grayback Creek, including a popular swimming hole. The area is surrounded by old-growth forests, wildflower-rich riparian zones, and the Grayback Interpretive Trail, with the Oregon Caves National Monument located only 5 miles away.
Nearby Attractions
Oregon Caves National Momunent located approximately 5 miles further down the road.
What the agency tells you
- First come, first serve camping, limited to 14 days.
- Day use area is reservable through calling the front desk at 541-592-4000.
- Campfires are allowed in developed Forest Service installed metal fire rings when conditions allow. Learn more about current fire information: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/rogue-siskiyou/fire/info
Everything else this campground posts · 7
- Fireworks are prohibited.
- Camp trailers/RVs are allowed, however no electric or water hookups are available.
- OHV/ATV use prohibited in campground.
- Quiet hours between 10pm and 6am.
- Dogs must be on a leash.
- There is no cell phone coverage.
- Must pay via Scan & Pay onsite with the Recreation.gov app. App must be downloaded with cellular service prior to arriving at the campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 40
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…pits 10 day use sites Drinking water Vault toilets Garbage disposal Campground host available…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…tables, and fire pits 10 day use sites Drinking water Vault toilets Garbage disposal Campground host…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Water access
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 39 of the 40 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.
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Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“$15/night for campsites, $5/night for extra vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
40 sites
All 40 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. 40 of the 40 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Extra Vehicle Fee | Extra Vehicle Fee | type not stated | $5 |
| Grayback | 01 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 02 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 03 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 04 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 05 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 06 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 07 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 08 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 09 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 10 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 11 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 12 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 13 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 14 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 15 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 16 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 17 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 18 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 19 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 20 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 21 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 22 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 23 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 24 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 25 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 26 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 27 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 28 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 29 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 30 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 31 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 32 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 33 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 34 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 35 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 36 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 37 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 38 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Grayback | 39 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
25 of 40 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Chinquapin Group CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 0.7 mi
Cave Creek CampgroundOregon Caves Protective Buffer Zone Protection Area (Administrative) · 4.5 mi
Bolan Lake CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 8.6 mi
Bolan Mountain LookoutSiskiyou National Forest · 9.1 miSelmac Lake ParkMedford Grants Pass Field Office · 10 mi
Little Falls CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 13 miFrom Cave Junction, OR, travel 12 miles east along Oregon State Highway 46 (Oregon Caves Highway).
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Williams, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 72°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Grayback 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 →