U.S. Forest Service · Siskiyou National Forest · OR
Ludlum Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 24 mi
Wildfire
West Side Rd 5565 fire · 24 mi away · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Tartar Gulch Rd fire · 31 mi away · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Crooks Creek Rd 3440 fire · 37 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
420 ftElevation
193 ftWater · Dry CreekEstuary · 5.3 mi
6.3 miE of Harbor, OR
82%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 481st darkest of 770 in OR
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Ludlum Campground is located adjacent to Wheeler Creek and the Winchuck River, just minutes from ocean beaches, and 30 minutes from the redwoods of northern California. There are opportunities to hike; one option is the Chimney Camp Trail #1279 , which is a pleasant hike along Wheeler Creek. Ludlum House Recreation Rental is also adjacent to the campground. Keep reading
Facilities
7 campsites with barrier-free picnic tables and fire pits Drinking water Vault toilets Garbage disposal
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables and fire pits Drinking water Vault toilets Garbage disposal”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…barrier-free picnic tables and fire pits Drinking water Vault toilets Garbage disposal”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Beach, Coast
Source: Stated in the agency description
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note
“$10 for campsite $3 for extra vehicle” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 5
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Ludlum HouseSiskiyou National Forest · 0.2 mi
Miller Bar Camping and Day Use AreaSiskiyou National Forest · 7.9 mi
Nook Bar Camping and Day Use AreaSiskiyou National Forest · 8.0 miNorth Fork CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 8.6 miSouth Fork Camping and Day Use AreaSiskiyou National Forest · 11 mi
Quail Prairie LookoutSiskiyou National Forest · 14 mi
Ludlum HouseSiskiyou National Forest · 0.2 miMiller Bar Camping and Day Use AreaSiskiyou National Forest · 7.9 miNook Bar Camping and Day Use AreaSiskiyou National Forest · 8.0 miNorth Fork CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 8.6 miSouth Fork Camping and Day Use AreaSiskiyou National Forest · 11 miQuail Prairie LookoutSiskiyou National Forest · 14 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight51°Mostly Cloudy
Saturday73°Mostly Sunny1% rain
Saturday Night49°Mostly Clear
Sunday67°Patchy Fog then Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Harbor, OR
Source: National Weather Service, MFR forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 42°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
80°30°
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.
Measured at: BROOKINGS 2 SE, OR (USC00351055), 7 miles away and 370 ft lower
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.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Ludlum 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.