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U.S. Forest Service · Umatilla National Forest · OR

Mottet Campground

5Heads up5 fires, nearest 9 mi
Wildfire
Paradise fire · 9.0 mi away · 9,656 acres · 86% contained · updated Sep 15, 2026
Wildfire
Hagen fire · 19 mi away · 61,380 acres · 99% contained · updated Sep 28, 2026
Wildfire
North Cayuse fire · 28 mi away · 4,887 acres · 97% contained · updated Aug 10, 2026
Wildfire
Columbia Center Mutual Aid fire · 41 mi away · 150 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Dorran Road fire · 42 mi away · 200 acres · updated Sep 30, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 14, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Get directionsWhat it costs, and the rules
Right now
OpenThe agency lists it open
A night
$8From, per site
Season
June 1 – November 30Open June 1 through November 30
Drawn from the record · 5,130 ft · 71% tree cover · water within reach · Bortle 2 sky
5,130 ftElevation
3,456 ftWater · an unnamed stream
19.7 miSE of Walla Walla East, WA
71%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 409th darkest of 770 in OR
Open June 1 through November 30Today

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Located just off the historic Kendall-Skyline Road, this high-level campground offers 6 campsites to choose from that are in close proximity to several wilderness trailheads. Spend your days hiking in the beautiful and scenic Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness and your nights relaxing in this tranquil and secluded campground. Mottet even offers clear, cold, and delicious drinking water, straight from a mountain spring!

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Drinking water
Yes
“…even offers clear, cold, and delicious drinking water, straight from a mountain spring!”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 19 km away
Patchy color
Source: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (19 km) · Oct 13, 2026

Phone before you drive

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$8Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$16DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Directions
Every line of the receipt · 6

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$8
An overnight camping fee of $8.00 will be charged.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$5

“An additional $5 "per extra vehicle" fee will be charged for each vehicle exceeding the maximum two vehicle per site allowance.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record

What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$8
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$16

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($8), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 6
Sign price: Derived by CAMPANAC from the U.S. Forest Service fee record: a stated per-night amount only · Sep 7, 2026
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

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate
Coordinate45.86839, -117.96030

Where it is

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

The weather

the next four days

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight45°Partly Cloudy
Saturday53°Mostly Sunny4% rain
Saturday Night33°Partly Cloudy1% rain
Sunday51°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Walla Walla East, WA

Source: National Weather Service, PDT forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Jaussaud Corral5,535 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Walla Walla River34,416 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Lookingglass4,859 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area

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

Cliff Bentz, official portrait

Mottet 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.075 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 770 rated federal campgrounds in Oregon · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (19 km) · Oct 13, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported patchy color · Oct 13, 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 town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026