Lee Thomas Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 37 mi
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 one hour 30 minutes southwest of Paisley, Oregon, Lee Thomas Campground is located right on the banks of the North Fork of the Wild and Scenic Sprague River. Lodgepole pine trees, rock outcroppings, and riparian meadows characterize the landscape. All seven campsites are close enough to hear the river riffling by. Campground amenities include picnic tables, fire grates, one vault toilet, and potable water. Just one mile east of the campground is the Lee Thomas Trailhead , which accesses Deadhorse Rim Trail #139 .
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…include picnic tables, fire grates, one vault toilet, and potable water. Just one mile east of the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…fire grates, one vault toilet, and potable water. Just one mile east of the campground is the Lee…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Meadow
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
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Campbell Lake CampgroundFremont National Forest · 4.8 mi
Currier Guard StationFremont National Forest · 9.0 mi
Clear Spring CampgroundFremont National Forest · 11 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Paisley, 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
Lee Thomas 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 →