Lobster Creek Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 35 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 7All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lobster Creek Campground has 7 campsites with picnic tables and fire pits: 3 tent sites and 4 tent/trailer sites). Located amidst trees and near the mighty Wild and Scenic Lower Rogue River , there is a boat launch that provides river access, and a gravel bar for day-use. Keep reading
Facilities
7 campsites with picnic tables and fire pits: 3 tent sites and 4 tent/trailer sites Flushing toilets Picnic tables are available at each site Garbage disposal is available on site. There is a boat launch available. Camp hosts are on site.
Nearby Attractions
Frances Shrader Old Growth Trail #1172 Myrtle Tree Trail #1163 Lower Rogue River Trail #1168 Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 247-3600.
What the agency tells you
First come, first serve camping, limited to 14 days. - Must pay via Scan & Pay onsite with the Recreation.gov app. App must be downloaded with cellular service prior to arriving at the campground. - Trash service available - Campfires are allowed in developed Forest Service installed metal fire rings when conditions allow. Learn more about current fire information: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/rogue-siskiyou/fire/info - Fireworks are prohibited. - Camping is only allowed in designated sites. - OHV/ATV use prohibited in campground. - Quiet hours between 10pm and 6am. - Dogs must be on a leash. - There is limited cell phone coverage.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 7
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…3 tent sites and 4 tent/trailer sites Flushing toilets Picnic tables are available at each site Garbage…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Paddle Boating
- Picnicking
- Scenic drives
- Water access
- Water sports
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:00 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
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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 · 14
What you actually pay
“Additional Vehicle Fee: $5 per vehicle per day NOTE : 50% discount for Interagency Senior and Access Pass holders on a single campsite.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:00 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
7 sites
All 7 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. 7 of the 7 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
Quosatana CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 3.4 mi
Lake of the Woods LookoutSiskiyou National Forest · 11 mi
Snow Camp LookoutSiskiyou National Forest · 13 miOak Flat CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 13 mi
Laird Lake CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 15 miSunshine Bar CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 15 miFrom Gold Beach, Oregon, travel 10 miles East on County Road 595 and then Forest Road 33.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gold Beach, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 42°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 Septembers are colder than the September line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Lobster Creek Campground is in Oregon’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Val Hoyle (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →