Sam Brown Horse Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 87 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sam Brown Horse Campground is the only horse camp on the Wild Rivers Ranger District! Located in the midst of the area's amazing biodiversity, it's a great place to wander and take in the sights and sounds of the Illinois Valley. Keep reading
Recreation
Recreation opportunities include horseback riding, hiking, wildlife viewing and splashing in the creek.
Facilities
7 campsites with picnic tables, and fire pits No water available. Please bring your own water. Vault toilet No garbage disposal - Please pack it out Natural Features The landscape surrounding the Sam Brown Horse Campground is defined by rugged beauty, sprawling meadows, historic mining sites and winding creeks. Briggs Creek flows along the edge of the campground.
Nearby Attractions
Sam Brown Campground Onion Way Trail #1157 Secret Way Trail #1282 Taylor Creek Trail #1142
What the agency tells you
First come, first serve camping, limited to 14 days.
No trash service available, pack out what you pack in.
Campfires are allowed in developed Forest Service installed metal fire rings when conditions allow. Learn more about current fire information: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/rogue-siskiyou/fire/info
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Fireworks are prohibited.
OHV/ATV use prohibited in campground.
Quiet hours between 10pm and 6am.
Dogs must be on a leash.
There is no cell phone coverage.
Must pay via Scan & Pay onsite with the Recreation.gov app. App must be downloaded with cellular service prior to arriving at the campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 8
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…available. Please bring your own water. Vault toilet No garbage disposal - Please pack it out Natural…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…with picnic tables, and fire pits No water available. Please bring your own water. Vault…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Meadow
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horse Camping
- Horseback riding
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 7 of the 8 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.
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What you actually pay
“Additional Vehicle Fee: $5 per vehicle per day NOTE : 50% discount for Interagency Senior and Access Pass holders on a single campsite.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($15), 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this