Idlewild Campground
1Heads up1 fire 27 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930's, Idlewild Campground is an easily accessible campground located just off of US Highway 395. The campground is lightly used and only becomes busy during the fall hunting season. Please pack out what you pack in, there is no trash service provided at this campground. The campground is a great place for those traveling through who would like a nice quiet place to camp that is easy to reach. Facilities reservable group picnic shelter located within Idlewild Campground Contact Info For local information, please call (541) 573-4300 or call (541) 575-3000 for general information. Keep reading
Nearby Attractions
Idlewild Loop Trail Idlewild Sno-Park Joaquin Miller Horse Camp Joaquin Miller Horse Trail King Mountain Lookout Poison Creek Reservoir Burns BLM
What the agency tells you
14 Day Stay Limit
Malheur National Forest Fire Public Use Restrictions
Malheur National Forest Alerts
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- 3 of 26
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Creek
- Hiking
- Mushroom Picking
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.
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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
26 sites
All 26 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. 26 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Idlewild | 01 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 02 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 03 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 04 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 05 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 06 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 07 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 08 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 09 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 10 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 11 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 12 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 13 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 14 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 15 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 16 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 17 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 18 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 19 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 20 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 21 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 22 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 23 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 24 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 25 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Idlewild | 26 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Buck Spring CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Deerhorn CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Dixie CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Falls Campground (Malheur National Forest)Malheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Joaquin Miller Horse CampMalheur National Forest · 0.0 miLittle Crane CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 miDirections from Burns, OR., travel 2.8 miles on US Highway 20 to the junction with US Highway 395, turn left onto US Highway 395 and head north. Follow US Highway 395 for approximately 14.6 miles to the junction with Forest Road 2820. Continue on Forest Road 2820 for 0.8 miles to the junction with Idlewild Campground Road. Follow Idlewild Road for approximately 1 mile to the campground.
The agency publishes this point for 18 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Prairie City, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 11°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
Idlewild 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 →