Humbug Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 19 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $21–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2321 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Wading and fishing are popular activities in the Breitenbush River, and rainbow trout is the most common catch for anglers. The Willamette National Forest has about 1,700 miles of trail. While many are in wilderness areas, a number of trails are low-elevation, easy-access trails for year-round hiking. Keep reading
Facilities
Humbug Campground sites have picnic tables, grills and easy access to the vault toilets. Drinking water spigots are spread throughout the campground. Most campsites offer sweeping views of the river.
Natural Features
The campground lies in the Willamette National Forest, which stretches for 110 miles along the western slopes of the Cascade Range. The varied landscape of high mountains, narrow canyons, cascading streams and wooded slopes offer varied recreational opportunities for visitors. The Breitenbush River is a tributary of the North Santiam River, and its clean waters flow from short forks of snowmelt in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. A variety of plants and foliage separate the spacious campsites and provide privacy from other sites.
Nearby Attractions
Detroit Lake has a marina and provides plenty of opportunity for water recreation like boating, water skiing and kayaking. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 967-3917.
What the agency tells you
There are no electric hookups available
Off-road vehicles are not permitted
First-come, first-served sites may be available
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Limit 1 vehicle per site; a $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for additional vehicles
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
You must stay in the campsite that you reserved. Site swapping is not allowed 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.
Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from the area after eating
Scan and Pay might be offered at this campground; It is recommended that you pay by cash or check for FCFS campsites. There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with FCFS payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded. Please download the Rec.Gov app prior to arriving at the campground as there may be no cellular service or very limited service at the campground. If no Scan & Pay option is available you must pay via cash or check.
Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly.
Check-In 2:00PM
Check-Out 12:00PM
No Overflow Parking. No Day Use Parking.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 23
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables, grills and easy access to the vault toilets. Drinking water spigots are spread throughout the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and easy access to the vault toilets. Drinking water spigots are spread throughout the campground. Most…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Fishing
- Night sky · 599th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 21 of the 23 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 · 14
What you actually pay
“a $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for additional vehicles” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $21–$40 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
23 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 21 mapped sitesAll 23 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. 23 of the 23 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.
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 75 ft | 345 ftHumbug Creek | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 75 ft | 338 ftHumbug Creek | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 74 ft | 460 ftHumbug Creek | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 74 ft | 421 ftHumbug Creek | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 65 ft | 507 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 65 ft | 462 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 77 ft | 396 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 62 ft | 228 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 49 ft | 179 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 47 ft | 166 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 55 ft | 202 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 47 ft | 152 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 51 ft | 138 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 53 ft | 133 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 44 ft | 130 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 16 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 44 ft | 174 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 17 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 71 ft | 103 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 18 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 71 ft | 166 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 19 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 88 ft | 117 ft | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 20 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 125 ft | 75 ftHumbug Creek | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 21 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 125 ft | 146 ftHumbug Creek | $21–$40 |
| HUMBUG CAMPGROUND | 22 | type not stated | 44 ft | 201 ftHumbug Creek | $21 | |
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | 70 ft | $21 |
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
Fox Creek Group CampWillamette National Forest · 1.6 mi
Gold Butte LookoutWillamette National Forest · 2.4 mi
Cleator BendWillamette National Forest · 3.9 mi
Breitenbush CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 4.3 miElk Lake (OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 4.3 miElk Lake CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 4.4 mi4.6 miles northeast of Detroit, Oregon. From Highway 22 at Detroit, turn east onto Breitenbush Road/Forest Service Road 46 and continue for 4.6 miles to Humbug Campground on the right.
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.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 36°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 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
Humbug Campground 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 →