North Fork Catherine Creek Campground
1Heads up1 fire 30 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The North Fork Catherine Creek Campground is a unique facility since the campsites are spread out for over 1 mile beginning at the Buck Creek road up to the North Fork Catherine Creek Trailhead . Each campsite is set back in the cool evergreen forest and is a popular area in the summer months for those wanting to escape the heat, enjoy the sounds of the stream, view wildlife, or take a short hike along the creek. Also located nearby is the North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground , that is avalable on Rec.gov for $40/night.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 31 km away
- No change
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. 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.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, 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 · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
North Fork Catherine Creek Group CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 1.3 mi
West Eagle Meadow CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 8.4 miMoss Springs CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 10 mi
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the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Union, OR
Typical weather
Typical June night 44°F, day 77°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 44°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
North Fork Catherine Creek 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 →