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

Poole Creek

1Heads up1 fire 23 mi away

Wildfire

Castle fire · 23 mi away · 3,615 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 10, 2026

Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 10, 2026

ClosedThe campground will remain closed until the summer 2027 season.

Closed for want of money or people is a choice somebody made.Ask who decided →

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near here Tell me when it comes back

Right now: ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
A night: $22–$34When it reopens, per site
Sites: 61In the agency’s record

Photos · U.S. Forest Service

45 ftLongest rig

4,210 ftElevation

1,203 ftWater · Poole Creek

31.5 miSE of Oakridge, OR

50%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices

In the agency’s own words

Poole Creek Campground is nestled in a forest of lodgepole pine, mountain hemlock and Shasta red fir, just south of the mouth of Poole Creek on the west shore of Lemolo Lake. The lake is the highest reservoir on the North Umpqua River at an elevation of 4,150 feet. Keep reading

Recreation

Boating, fishing, swimming, kayaking, canoeing and water skiing top the list of recreational activities at the campground. Lemolo Lake provides outdoor enthusiasts with a multitude of recreational opportunities year round. The forested shoreline and mountainous backdrop provide a perfect setting for both swimmers braving the lake's cold, refreshing waters, and for anglers casting lines from boat or beach. Populations of German brown trout, Eastern brook trout, rainbow trout and kokanee salmon thrive in the lake which reaches depths of up to 100 feet in places. For waterfall seekers, nearby Lemolo Falls Trail is a steep traverse that drops down into North Umpqua Canyon for a view of Lemolo Falls as it cascades 150 feet to the canyon bottom. A spur trail accesses the bottom of the canyon below the falls.

Facilities

This campground has 60 standard sites, all sites are reservation only. Reservations must be made two days in advance. There is also one reservable group site. Sites are equipped with picnic tables, campfire rings and grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided.

Natural Features

Umpqua National Forest visitors are often taken aback by unique and surprising landscapes shaped by explosive geologic events. The 984,602-acre forest provides spectacular scenery and an abundance of natural and cultural resources. The translation of the word, "Umpqua," meaning "thundering waters," defines the area. High mountain lakes, heart-stopping rapids, peaceful ponds and thundering waterfalls, including the 272-foot Watson Falls on the North Umpqua Highway, offer visitors a renewed sense of spirit. Diverse ecosystems support a wide range of habitat for wildlife. From eagles and owls to salamanders and salmon, these species, along with many others, depend on surrounding undeveloped wilderness, clean streams and diverse forests to live. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (760) 932-7092.

Nearby Attractions

Experience 172 miles of diverse river and mountain landscapes along the Rogue-Umpqua National Scenic Byway. Travel from rolling oak-covered hills and towering coniferous forests, to roaring whitewater rapids and ancient lava flows. The highway travels alongside the Upper Rogue and North Umpqua Wild and Scenic Rivers that contain world-class fisheries.

Charges & Cancellations

Reservation sites will be held until check out time (11am) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the Campground Manager will be able to modify your reservation.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Some individual sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Reservable and first-come first-serve sites are mixed throughout the campground.

Rule

Click here for more information about Umpqua National Forest

Rule

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.

Everything else this campground posts · 3

Rule

Extra vehicle fee $5 per vehicle per night

Rule

No horses or stock allowed at the group site

Rule

Maximum vehicle length: 35 feet

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 61 · 1 group
Hookups: None
Longest rig: 45 ft
Paved pads: 59 of 61
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Vault Toilets; “…tables, campfire rings and grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
Drinking water: Yes; “…rings and grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features Umpqua National…”
Camp host: On site; recreation.gov lists “Host”

Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Waterfall, Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Beach; Biking; Boating; Canoeing; Fishing; Hiking; Kayaking; Swimming
Night sky · 190th darkest of 770 in OR: Bortle 2

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 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 · Sep 8, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopens

The campground will remain closed until the summer 2027 season.

The closure above is the reading. We hold no availability snapshot for this campground, so there’s no thirty-night strip to draw under it.

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night, when it reopens$22–$34plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

What’s open near here

Tell me when it reopens

Watch for it to come back

One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Every line of the receipt · 16

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night, when it reopens$22–$34

Standard Nonelectric$22

Single Lakefront Premium Fee$26

Standard Nonelectric-Double Site$30

Double Lakefront Premium Fee$34

Group area, a night$100

These are next season’s rates, Jun 3, 2027 to Sep 7, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What this campground addsits own record

Extra vehicle$5

“$5 extra vehicle fee per day **MUST BE PAID AT THE CAMPGROUND FEE KIOSK UPON ARRIVAL” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

“Reservation sites will be held until check out time (11am) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Co…” · this campground’s own terms

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 · 6

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 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. · Sep 9, 2026

This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · 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: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency said · 1

The campground will remain closed until the summer 2027 season. This project is being completed in collaboration with PacifiCorp and will improve campground infrastructure and visitor access.
U.S. Forest Service · posted Sep 2, 2026

Closure: USFS Umpqua National Forest alert, quoted verbatim · Oct 17, 2026

Open within 60 miles · 4

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

Bunker Hill CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 0.9 mi · 5 sites
Diamond Lake ResortUmpqua National Forest · 9.7 mi
Toketee Lake CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 11 mi · 34 sites
Boulder Flat CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 16 mi · 9 sites

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 17, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

The sites

61 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 61 mapped sites

91 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomGROUP AREA GROUP SITE 1 327 ft049 169 ft011 158 ft058 152 ft060 149 ft

Least room013 39 ft014 39 ft012 42 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 61 sites

61 of 61 sites located

Standard60Group1

GROUP SITE 1 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 61 of the 61 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 61 of the 61 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


GROUP AREA	GROUP SITE 1	group standard nonelectric	45 ft	327 ft	136 ftLemolo Lake	2,829 ft	$100
POOLE CREEK	001	standard nonelectric	25 ft	49 ft	195 ftLemolo Lake	2,522 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	002	standard nonelectric	25 ft	113 ft	50 ftLemolo Lake	2,473 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	003	standard nonelectric	25 ft	65 ft	184 ftLemolo Lake	2,333 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	004	standard nonelectric	30 ft	113 ft	46 ftLemolo Lake	2,364 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	005	standard nonelectric	30 ft	122 ft	53 ftLemolo Lake	2,248 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	006	standard nonelectric	25 ft	74 ft	190 ftLemolo Lake	2,136 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	007	standard nonelectric	25 ft	52 ft	195 ftLemolo Lake	2,068 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	008	standard nonelectric	25 ft	63 ft	71 ftLemolo Lake	2,129 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	009	standard nonelectric	30 ft	95 ft	253 ftLemolo Lake	1,918 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	010	standard nonelectric	25 ft	63 ft	94 ftLemolo Lake	2,075 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	011	standard nonelectric	30 ft	158 ft	100 ftLemolo Lake	1,942 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	012	standard nonelectric	30 ft	42 ft	126 ftLemolo Lake	1,830 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	013	standard nonelectric	30 ft	39 ft	132 ftLemolo Lake	1,800 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	014	standard nonelectric	30 ft	39 ft	132 ftLemolo Lake	1,774 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	015	standard nonelectric	25 ft	44 ft	259 ftLemolo Lake	1,627 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	016	standard nonelectric	30 ft	106 ft	116 ftLemolo Lake	1,696 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	017	standard nonelectric	25 ft	54 ft	241 ftLemolo Lake	1,588 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	018	standard nonelectric	25 ft	91 ft	129 ftLemolo Lake	1,578 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	019	standard nonelectric	30 ft	91 ft	141 ftLemolo Lake	1,523 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	020	standard nonelectric	30 ft	110 ft	172 ftLemolo Lake	1,441 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	021	standard nonelectric	25 ft	146 ft	278 ftLemolo Lake	1,240 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	022	standard nonelectric	25 ft	69 ft	339 ftLemolo Lake	1,335 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	023	standard nonelectric	25 ft	69 ft	338 ftLemolo Lake	1,373 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	024	standard nonelectric	25 ft	80 ft	314 ftLemolo Lake	1,435 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	025	standard nonelectric	25 ft	107 ft	426 ft	1,375 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	026	standard nonelectric	30 ft	54 ft	284 ftLemolo Lake	1,535 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	027	standard nonelectric	25 ft	44 ft	299 ftLemolo Lake	1,594 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	028	standard nonelectric	25 ft	118 ft	426 ftLemolo Lake	1,508 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	029	standard nonelectric	25 ft	74 ft	322 ftLemolo Lake	1,646 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	030	standard nonelectric	25 ft	79 ft	448 ftLemolo Lake	1,605 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	031	standard nonelectric	25 ft	122 ft	311 ftLemolo Lake	1,730 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	032	standard nonelectric	30 ft	79 ft	458 ftLemolo Lake	1,650 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	033	standard nonelectric	25 ft	95 ft	314 ftLemolo Lake	1,824 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	034	standard nonelectric	30 ft	72 ft	458 ftLemolo Lake	1,762 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	035	standard nonelectric	30 ft	63 ft	421 ftLemolo Lake	1,876 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	036	standard nonelectric	25 ft	64 ft	259 ftLemolo Lake	2,004 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	037	standard nonelectric	30 ft	52 ft	240 ftLemolo Lake	2,065 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	038	standard nonelectric	30 ft	123 ft	367 ftLemolo Lake	2,127 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	039	standard nonelectric	25 ft	65 ft	224 ftLemolo Lake	2,273 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	040	standard nonelectric	25 ft	127 ft	348 ftLemolo Lake	2,293 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	041	standard nonelectric	30 ft	82 ft	212 ftLemolo Lake	2,402 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	042	standard nonelectric	25 ft	49 ft	227 ftLemolo Lake	2,483 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	043	standard nonelectric	25 ft	140 ft	361 ftLemolo Lake	2,522 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	044	standard nonelectric	25 ft	127 ft	414 ftLemolo Lake	2,390 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	045	standard nonelectric	30 ft	122 ft	571 ftLemolo Lake	2,416 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	046	standard nonelectric	25 ft	94 ft	597 ftLemolo Lake	2,297 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	047	standard nonelectric	25 ft	94 ft	619 ftLemolo Lake	2,204 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	048	standard nonelectric	30 ft	123 ft	487 ftLemolo Lake	2,130 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	049	standard nonelectric	30 ft	169 ft	617 ftLemolo Lake	1,988 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	050	standard nonelectric	30 ft	141 ft	462 ftLemolo Lake	1,971 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	051	standard nonelectric	30 ft	140 ft	522 ft	1,794 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	052	standard nonelectric	25 ft	63 ft	479 ftLemolo Lake	1,822 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	053	standard nonelectric	25 ft	72 ft	522 ft	1,697 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	054	standard nonelectric	30 ft	79 ft	469 ft	1,588 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	055	standard nonelectric	12 ft	146 ft	324 ft	1,471 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	056	standard nonelectric	30 ft	103 ft	425 ft	1,487 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	057	standard nonelectric	30 ft	103 ft	382 ft	1,404 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	058	standard nonelectric	30 ft	152 ft	209 ft	1,227 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	059	standard nonelectric	30 ft	107 ft	360 ft	1,270 ft	$22–$34
POOLE CREEK	060	standard nonelectric	30 ft	149 ft	235 ft	1,132 ft	$22–$34

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 61 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate43.31002, -122.20047

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone541-498-2531

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Bunker Hill CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 0.9 mi

East Lemolo CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 1.9 mi

Inlet CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 2.3 mi

Clearwater Falls CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 4.5 mi

Kelsay Valley Horse CampUmpqua National Forest · 5.2 mi

Whitehorse Falls CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 6.7 mi

Getting there

From Roseburg, OR, travel east on OR-138 / NE Diamond Lake Boulevard for approximately 72 miles, turn left onto Forest Road 2610 (Bird's Point Road). Proceed 4 miles and turn right at the Poole Creek Campground sign. The campground is located on the west shore of Lemolo Lake. Turn right after the fee station for the group site.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today67°Partly Sunny

Tonight32°Mostly Clear

Sunday68°Mostly Sunny

Sunday Night32°Mostly Cloudy

NWS forecast for Crescent Lake, OR

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 36°F, day 59°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 26°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: LEMOLO LAKE 3 NNW, OR (USC00354835), 4 miles away and 133 ft lower

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless

Thirsty Creek Appendage2,255 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

Mt. Bailey18,401 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

Poole Creek 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

Who can change it · 3

A closed campground is a budget line before it’s anything else

Filed as maintenance from the agency’s own words “infrastructure”. That reading is ours. The draft to the agency asks what closed Poole Creek, what reopening it would cost and what date they’re working towards. The draft to Congress asks them to put the same question in writing and to fund the answer.

The member who votes the moneyCliff BentzU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 2nd district
Open their contact form ↗Their record →
Your senator, on the same appropriationJeff MerkleyU.S. Senator · Oregon
Open their contact form ↗
Your senator, on the same appropriationRon WydenU.S. Senator · Oregon
Open their contact form ↗

Read the draft, or change the wording

For the camper who found out at the gate, or a week before the trip. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.

To Cliff Bentz

Asks them to find out what reopening Poole Creek would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.

Subject Poole Creek is closed (Umpqua National Forest, Oregon)

Dear Cliff Bentz,

I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 2nd district. I went to camp at Poole Creek, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon and found it closed.

The notice says: "The campground will remain closed until the summer 2027 season. This project is being completed in collaboration with PacifiCorp and will improve campground infrastructure and visitor access."
(https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/umpqua/alerts/poole-creek-campground-closed-2026-season, read Oct 17, 2026)

That’s a maintenance closure, which makes it a budget question before it’s anything else. A campground doesn’t need this work because of bad luck. It needs it because the work was deferred until it couldn’t be deferred any longer.

Please ask the U.S. Forest Service, in writing, what reopening Poole Creek would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 61 campsites are open next season.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

Sent about Poole Creek (Umpqua National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com

To Jeff Merkley

Asks them to find out what reopening Poole Creek would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.

Subject Poole Creek is closed (Umpqua National Forest, Oregon)

Dear Jeff Merkley,

I’m a constituent in Oregon. I went to camp at Poole Creek, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon and found it closed.

Sent about Poole Creek (Umpqua National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com

To Ron Wyden

Asks them to find out what reopening Poole Creek would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.

Subject Poole Creek is closed (Umpqua National Forest, Oregon)

Dear Ron Wyden,

I’m a constituent in Oregon. I went to camp at Poole Creek, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon and found it closed.

Sent about Poole Creek (Umpqua National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com

How we know this · 4

Contacts: Contact forms from @unitedstates/congress-legislators · Sep 9, 2026

The figures in these drafts: Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress (CRS Report RS20643) · Updated December 4, 2025 · “The ship’s final procurement cost was $13,316.5 million (i.e., about $13.3 billion) in then-year dollars.”

The figures in these drafts: Salary Table 2026-GS, Incorporating the 1% General Schedule Increase, Effective January 2026 (U.S. Office of Personnel Management) · Effective January 2026 · “Grade 5, Step 1: $34,799 (annual rate, before locality pay).”

The figures in these drafts: Update to Civilian Position Full Fringe Benefit Cost Factor, Federal Pay Raise Assumptions, and Inflation Factors used in OMB Circular No. A-76 (OMB Memorandum M-08-13) · March 11, 2008 · “the civilian position full fringe benefit cost factor needs to be adjusted downward, from 36.45 percent to 36.25 percent”

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own notice puts it in the closed position. Its sentence is quoted below.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 61 of the 61 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 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, taken as the median across the 61 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 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: 0.029 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

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: Crescent Lake, OR, 18.5 mi SW (a census designated place). Straight line.

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