U.S. Forest Service · Umpqua National Forest · OR
Mineral Camp Campground
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
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
1,790 ftElevation
205 ftWater · Fairview Creek
15.7 miSW of Oakridge, OR
69%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 426th darkest of 770 in OR
Open year-roundToday
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Mineral Camp is a small campground situated along Sharps Creek, surrounded stand of Douglas fir. Located at the base of the historic Hardscrabble Grade, Mineral Camp was once a stopover place for miners before they started up the long steep grade to the Bohemia Mining District. Keep reading
Facilities
3 campsites with picnic tables and fire pits Vault toilet No garbage disposal - Please pack it out No drinking water View a map of Mineral Camp Campground here .
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with picnic tables and fire pits Vault toilet No garbage disposal - Please pack it out No…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “No drinking water View a map of Mineral Camp Campground here .”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
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 · 3
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 a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
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
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
Musick Guard StationUmpqua National Forest · 3.6 mi
Lund Park CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 5.0 miCedar Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 6.0 mi
Sharps Creek Recreation SiteNw Oregon Upper Willamette Field Office · 7.4 mi
Rujada Day Use Picnic AreaUmpqua National Forest · 8.6 mi
Rujada CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 8.6 mi
Musick Guard StationUmpqua National Forest · 3.6 miLund Park CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 5.0 miCedar Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 6.0 miSharps Creek Recreation SiteNw Oregon Upper Willamette Field Office · 7.4 miRujada Day Use Picnic AreaUmpqua National Forest · 8.6 miRujada CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 8.6 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
This Afternoon78°Sunny
Tonight50°Partly Cloudy
Saturday60°Partly Sunny4% rain
Saturday Night46°Mostly Cloudy
NWS forecast for Westfir, OR
Source: National Weather Service, PQR forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
90°32°20°
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.
Measured at: OAKRIDGE FISH HATCHERY, OR (USC00356213), 17 miles away and 515 ft lower
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.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 5, 2026
Who answers for this land
Mineral Camp 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: The agency lists it open right now. Its own recreation database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
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.
Nearest place of any size: Westfir, OR, 15.2 mi SW. Straight line.