Joaquin Miller Horse Camp
1Heads up1 fire 27 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $8From, per site
- Sites
- 12All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Joaquin Miller Campground is located 19 miles north of Burns, Oregon on US Highway 395. Despite the easily accessed location, this 8 site campground receives light use most of the year. Developed to accommodate stock, Joaquin Miller has two pipe stock corrals and hitching rails available to users. Please pack out what you pack in, there is no trash service provided. Keep reading
Facilities
Horse corrals vault toilets Nearby Attractions Idlewild Campground Rock Springs Campground Idlewild Loop Trail Joaquin Miller Horse Trail Poison Creek Reservoir Burns BLM Contact Info For local information, please call (541) 573-4300 or call (541) 575-3000 for general information.
What the agency tells you
Malheur National Forest Fire Public Use Restrictions
Malheur National Forest Alerts
14 Day Stay Limit
Everything else this campground posts · 1
No cell phone coverage
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…provided. Facilities Horse corrals vault toilets Nearby Attractions Idlewild Campground Rock Springs…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Creek
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:46 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
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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, $8 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 sites
All 12 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. 12 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Joaquin Miller | 01 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Joaquin Miller | 02 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Joaquin Miller | 03 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Joaquin Miller | 04 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Joaquin Miller | 05 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Joaquin Miller | 06 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Joaquin Miller | 07 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Joaquin Miller | 08 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Joaquin Miller | 09 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Joaquin Miller | 10 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Joaquin Miller | 11 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Joaquin Miller | 12 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
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
Idlewild CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 miLittle Crane CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 miFrom the town of Burns, OR., travel 2.8 miles east on US Highway 20 to the junction with US Highway 395 turn north onto US Highway 395. Continue on US Highway 395 north towardst he town of John Day, OR., approximately 16.4 miles, the campground will be on the left.
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
Joaquin Miller Horse 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 →