Parish Cabin Campground
1Heads up1 fire 27 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $8From, per site
- Sites
- 17All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Parish Cabin Campground sets along Bear Creek affording fishing opportunities. The campground is within minutes of Logan Valley an exceptional place for viewing wildflowers during spring and early summer. Hikers are within a short drive to trail heads leading into the beautiful Strawberry Mountain Wilderness. This campground is very popular with hunters. A wildfire burned through the area in 2012 and again in 2015; visitors have the unique ability to view the effects and benefits of wildfire in the surrounding countryside. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors can enjoy fishing Bear creek and excellent wildflower viewing in Logan Valley just minutes away in the spring and summer. Several nearby trailheads provide access to hiking in the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness. The campground is a favored base for hunters throughout the hunting seasons.
Facilities
Each campsite has a picnic table, fire ring, and parking for camp trailers. Accessible vault toilets are conveniently located in the middle of the campground. Potable water is provided during the summer months. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 575-3000.
Nearby Attractions
Strawberry Mountain Wilderness Fall Mountain Lookout Wickiup Campground Logan Valley Interpretive Site Swick Old Growth Interpretive Site Lake Creek Youth Camp
What the agency tells you
Drinking water is available only during warmer months; water will be shut off from early October until late May (specific dates required to prevent freezing lines depend on area temperatures).
Malheur National Forest Fire Public Use Restrictions
Malheur National Forest Alerts
Everything else this campground posts · 4
14 Day Stay Limit
Don't Move Firewood: Please protect Pacific Northwest forests by preventing the spread of invasive species. Firewood can carry insects and diseases that can threaten the health of our western forests. You can make a difference by obtaining and burning your firewood near your camping destination. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
No cell phone coverage.
No trash service; Pack it in/Pack it out
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 17
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…parking for camp trailers. Accessible vault toilets are conveniently located in the middle of the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…located in the middle of the campground. Potable water is provided during the summer months. Contact Info…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Mushroom Picking
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 14:29 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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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.
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, $8 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
recreation.gov availability, read 14:29 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
17 sites
All 17 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. 17 of the 17 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Parish Cabin | 01 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 02 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 03 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 04 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 05 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 06 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 07 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 08 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 09 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 10 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 11 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 12 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 13 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 14 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 15 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 16 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
| Parish Cabin | 17 | standard nonelectric | $8 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Buck Spring CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Deerhorn CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Dixie CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Falls Campground (Malheur National Forest)Malheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Idlewild CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Joaquin Miller Horse CampMalheur National Forest · 0.0 miFrom the town of John Day, OR., travel south on US Highway 395 for approximately 12 miles to the junction with County Road 65. Travel on County Road 65 for approximately 8 miles the road then changes to Forest Road 15. Travel on Forest Road 15 approximately 4 miles to the junction with Forest Road 16, turn west onto Forest Road 16 and travel for approximately 1 mile, the campground will be on the right.
The agency publishes this point for 18 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Prairie City, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 11°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
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
Parish Cabin 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 →