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

Sandhill Crossing Campground

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 34 mi
Wildfire
Forty Four fire · 34 mi away · 9 acres · updated Oct 15, 2026
Wildfire
Nfca #36 fire · 44 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
A night
FreeNo camping fee
6,110 ftElevation
168 ftWater · North Fork Sprague River
37.1 miNW of Lakeview, OR
35%Tree cover
Bortle 1Night sky · 27th darkest of 770 in OR

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Located 40 minutes southwest of Paisley, OR, Sandhill Crossing campground is a remote and restful campground overlooking the North Fork of the Wild and Scenic Sprague River in a lodgepole pine and meadow setting. At 6,303 feet in elevation, Sandhill Crossing is a popular hunting camp in the fall. There is no fee to use this campground and amenities include potable water, one vault toilet, picnic tables and fire rings at all five campsites.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“There is no fee to use this campground and amenities include potable water, one vault toilet, picnic tables and fire rings at all five campsites.”
Drinking water
Yes
“There is no fee to use this campground and amenities include potable water, one vault toilet, picnic tables and fire rings at all five campsites.”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
River, Meadow
Source: Stated in the agency description

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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
A nightFreeNo camping feethe agency’s fee record
A weekendNothingDerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
Camping feeFree
No fee.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
A night, and a whole weekendDerivedNothing

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
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today64°Mostly Sunny
Tonight32°Partly Cloudy
Sunday62°Sunny
Sunday Night32°Partly Cloudy

NWS forecast for Bly, OR

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Deadhorse Rim13,496 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Hanan Trail8,111 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Cliff Bentz, official portrait

Sandhill Crossing 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
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: Bly, OR, 15.4 mi NNE (a census designated place). Straight line.