McBride Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
McBride Campground is a small campground located along Brooks Ditch, northwest of Halfway, OR. This 10 unit campground has lots of shade, provided by a mixed pine-fir forest. The campground is popular in the summer with local campers and berry pickers, and in the fall for hunters. Quiet hours are from 10pm to 6am. Primary use season is May to September. Keep reading
Facilities
McBride Campground has 10 sites, each with a picnic table, fire ring and parking space.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- Hiking
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 39 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
10 sites
All 10 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. 10 of the 10 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ScanAndPay | 1 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| ScanAndPay | 10 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| ScanAndPay | 2 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| ScanAndPay | 3 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| ScanAndPay | 4 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| ScanAndPay | 5 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| ScanAndPay | 6 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| ScanAndPay | 7 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| ScanAndPay | 8 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| ScanAndPay | 9 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Fish Lake CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 10 miTamarack CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 13 mi
Twin Lakes CampgroundHells Canyon National Recreation Area · 13 miTwo Color CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 13 mi
Two Color Guard StationWhitman National Forest · 13 miFrom Halfway, Oregon head north on the Cornucopia Highway (Main Street) for about 5.7 miles to Carson Lane; Turn left on Carson Lane (road becomes Forest Road 7710 at Carson Grade); Follow Forest Road 7710 for 3.5 miles to Forest Road 77; Turn right on Forest Road 77 and go 1 mile to the campground entrance on left side of road.
To get to Halfway, Oregon from Baker City, travel north on Interstate 84 for about 1 mile to the 302 exit for Highway 86 to Hells Canyon; Travel on Highway 86 for about 52 miles to Highway 12 going north into Halfway; Travel on Highway 12 for 1.5 miles to Halfway.
ADVISORY: Sections of Forest Road 7710 are a single-lane steep gravel road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Halfway, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 18°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
McBride 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 →