Marsters Spring Campground
1Heads up1 fire 49 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $6From, per site
- Sites
- 1110 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located 20 minutes south of Paisley, Oregon, Marsters Spring is a rustic and peaceful campground along the banks of the Chewaucan River. The water level stays consistent on this river, providing good habitat for fish. Anglers can cast their line for catch-and-release trout. A creek flows amid sagebrush and through a mixed stand of alder, juniper and ponderosa pines. The Chewaucan Crossing trailhead is just one and a half miles up the road which accesses the National Recreation Trail #160. Ten widely spaced campsites offer privacy. All sites have picnic tables and fire grates, and there are two vault toilets. A hand pump gives access to fresh water during open season. Trash service is provided throughout the summer months. Recreation recreational activities include flyfishing, picnicking, hiking, mountain biking and nature viewing. Keep reading
Facilities
2 vault toilets, trash receptacles, and water (hand pump) Natural Features natural features include the Chewaucan River, and its rugged canyon surrounding the campground.
Nearby Attractions
National Recreation Trail #160, Morgan Butte Fire Lookout, Chewaucan River,
What the agency tells you
Campsites are operated on a first come-first serve basis, and must be occupied within the first 24 hours. Camping stay is only allowed for 14 days maximum. Trash service is approximately once a week, pack out what you can. Practice leave-no-trace policy. Potable water is only available during the fee-season, at spigots scattered across the campground. Water system is turned off and drained during the winter months. Signage will be posted at designated kiosks regarding water quality, testing, and safety. Dogs must be kept on a leash.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and fire grates, and there are two vault toilets. A hand pump gives access to fresh water during…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and there are two vault toilets. A hand pump gives access to fresh water during open season.…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Biking
- Birding
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Picnicking
- Water access
- Whitewater rafting
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 10 of the 11 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
“Camping: $6/Night for single unit, $2/Night for extra vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $6 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites
All 11 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. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 01 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 02 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 03 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 04 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 05 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 06 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 07 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 08 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 09 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| Extra Vehicle Fee | Extra Vehicle Fee | type not stated | $2 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Chewaucan Crossing Campground/TrailheadFremont National Forest · 0.6 miJones Crossing CampgroundFremont National Forest · 1.2 mi
Campbell Lake CampgroundFremont National Forest · 8.5 mi
Bald Butte Lookout (Fremont-Winema National Forest, OR)Fremont National Forest · 9.4 miDeadhorse Lake CampgroundFremont National Forest · 9.7 mi
Happy Camp CampgroundFremont National Forest · 11 miFrom Paisley, OR take Highway 31 north toward Silver Lake, Oregon turn left on County Highway 2-08, Mill Street, and continue left on Forest Service (FS) Road 33. Follow FS Road 33 to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Paisley, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 21°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
Marsters Spring 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 →