Irondyke Forest Camp
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 5All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Irondyke Forest Camp is a small rustic facility located along the Wild and Scenic Lostine River. Situated near the river in the cool pine and fir trees, the site is popular for summer and fall camping and hunting. The campground provides 5 sites and opportunities to explore Eagle Cap Wilderness or to enjoy nearby Hells Canyon. The primary use season is from early June to the end of September. Quiet hours are 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. Keep reading
Facilities
Irondyke Campground provides 5 campsites with picnic tables, fire rings and parking spaces.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 5
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Backpacking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Water access
- Wilderness access
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 7.7 km away
- No change
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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Every line of the receipt · 17
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
5 sites
All 5 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. 5 of the 5 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Williamson CampgroundWallowa National Forest · 3.2 miCanyon Forest CampgroundWallowa National Forest · 3.8 miFrom Enterprise, Oregon travel west on Highway 82 for 10 miles to Lostine, Oregon; In Lostine turn left at Lostine River Road and go 7 miles; The Lostine River Road turns into Forest Road 8210 at Forest Boundary; Continue 7.5 miles on Forest Road 8210 to Forest Camp entrance on right side of road.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Joseph, OR
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

Irondyke Forest Camp 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 →