North Fork Campground (OR)
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 35 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $16From, per site
- Sites
- 109 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
North Fork Campground is a small campground is in the midst of old growth forest located off Forest Road 37 from Highway 140. Keep reading
Recreation
Nearby hiking include Sky Lakes Wilderness, Brown Mountain, Pacific Crest Trail, Mount McCloughlin Trail and Fish Lake Trail.
Facilities
The campground has a vault toilet and drinking water available.
Natural Features
North Fork Campground offers easy access to Fish Lake, a premier fishing site supplied by over 45 underground volcanic streams. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 560-3400.
Nearby Attractions
A boat launch for Fish Lake which has a 10 m.p.h. speed limit, is within a few miles from this campground and a great location for fishing, kayaking, canoeing and paddle boarding . Amenities offered at nearby Fish Lake Resort include a cafe, small store and firewood.
What the agency tells you
Caution: Bears frequent the area; be aware, keep a clean camp and store all food items in closed containers.
One vehicle is included in campsite fee, an additional fee for extra vehicles will be charged at campground.
All sites are first come first serve.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Off-road vehicles are not allowed in the campground.
For current conditions please call the High Cascades Ranger District at (541) 560-3400
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Trail. Facilities The campground has a vault toilet and drinking water available. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…The campground has a vault toilet and drinking water available. Natural Features North Fork Campground…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 543rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 9 of the 10 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.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $16 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
10 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 9 mapped sitesAll 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. 9 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.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND (OR) | 01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 190 ft | 221 ft | $16 |
| NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND (OR) | 02 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 151 ft | 411 ft | $16 |
| NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND (OR) | 03 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 128 ft | 341 ft | $16 |
| NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND (OR) | 04 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 78 ft | 276 ft | $16 |
| NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND (OR) | 05 | shelter nonelectric | 48 ft | 78 ft | 286 ft | |
| NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND (OR) | 06 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 112 ft | 207 ft | $16 |
| NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND (OR) | 07 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 90 ft | 137 ft | $16 |
| NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND (OR) | 08 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 79 ft | 102 ft | $16 |
| NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND (OR) | 09 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 79 ft | 163 ft | $16 |
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | 35 ft | $16 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Big Elk Guard StationRogue River National Forest · 1.3 mi
Doe Point CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 2.2 mi
Fish Lake Campground - Rogue RiverRogue River National Forest · 2.5 mi
Willow Prairie HorsecampRogue River National Forest · 2.5 mi
Willow Prairie CabinRogue River National Forest · 2.6 mi
Beaver Dam Group CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 5.1 miFrom Medford OR, take OR-140 (Lake of the Woods Hwy) about 28 miles and turn right on Forest Road 37. Continue 1 mile on Forest Road 37, campground is located on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Rocky Point, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 23°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
North Fork Campground (OR) 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 →