Happy Camp Campground
1Heads up1 fire 45 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Located approximately one hour from Paisley, Oregon, Happy Camp is a campground ideally located along peaceful Dairy Creek. The stream flows through the middle of the campground, offering fishing opportunities for rainbow trout. At an elevation of 5289, this campground features nine camping sites. All campsites include picnic tables and fire rings, but no garbage receptacles. * Remember to "pack it in, pack it out." There is one vault toilet and water is available at Clear Springs Forest Camp , approximately 1.5 miles to the west on Forest Service Road 047. Besides fishing, hiking on the nearby trails, and relaxing at Happy Camp, remember to bring your horseshoes to use at the horseshoe pits or picnic under the historic shelters. The picnic shelters were built in the 1930's by Civilian Conservation Corps.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…"pack it in, pack it out." There is one vault toilet and water is available at Clear Springs Forest Camp…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…it out." There is one vault toilet and water is available at Clear Springs Forest Camp , approximately 1.5…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. 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.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Clear Spring CampgroundFremont National Forest · 1.6 mi
Dairy Point CampgroundFremont National Forest · 2.3 mi
Campbell Lake CampgroundFremont National Forest · 7.0 miDeadhorse Lake CampgroundFremont National Forest · 7.4 miJones Crossing CampgroundFremont National Forest · 9.9 miMoss Meadows Horse CampFremont National Forest · 10 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Paisley, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 20°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
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
Happy Camp 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 →