U.S. Forest Service · OR

Silver Creek Marsh

ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks April 15. Season not published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$6From, per site
Sites
1615 on recreation.gov

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices

In the agency’s own words

Silver Creek Marsh Campground is located 30 minutes south of Silver Lake, Oregon. The Silver Creek March Campground offers campsites at a popular fishing spot along Silver Creek in a beautiful forest setting. This spacious, timbered camp offers pastoral meadow and marsh views and great camping. There are 15 campsites with picnic tables, fire rings, two vault toilets, horse corrals, and potable water. You can enjoy bird watching, fishing, and hiking besides horseback riding. For horses, you’ll find large corrals with about six stalls that can accommodate 10-12 horses. There are also five hitching rails. On site is Silver Creek March Trailhead which provides access to the Fremont National Recreation Trail #160 – Northern Segment . You’ll find good signage on this section of the trail with mile indicators and directions. Keep reading

Recreation

Recreation opportunities in the area include picnicking, flatwater water activities, fishing, hiking, bird watching, nature viewing. The National Recreation Trail #160 is within close proximity to the Campground.

Facilities

3 vault toilets, potable water (seasonally available by hand pumps)

Natural Features

Thompson Reservoir, Silver Creek, Hager Mountain Nearby Attractions National Recreation Trail #160, Hager Mountain Lookout, Sycan Marsh, Winter Rim

What the agency tells you

Rule

Camping stay is only allowed for 14 days maximum. Trash service provided during peak season. Practice leave-no-trace policy. Potable water is only available during the fee-season. Water system is turned off and drained during the winter months. Signage will be posted at designated kiosks regarding water quality, testing, and safety. Horse and Equestrian sites are intended for campers with stock only.

Tents and rigs

Sites
16
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…with picnic tables, fire rings, two vault toilets, horse corrals, and potable water. You can enjoy…”
Drinking water
Yes
“…two vault toilets, horse corrals, and potable water. You can enjoy bird watching, fishing, and hiking…”

Around the campground

On the water
Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Meadow
Biking
Birding
Canoeing
Climbing
Fishing
Hiking
Kayaking
Mountain biking
Paddling
Sailing
Water access
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 15 of the 16 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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 15, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$6plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$20DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night$6
Standard Nonelectric$6
Rates for the season the campground is in now, May 11, 2026 to Oct 15, 2026.
Payments can be made with cash or check (make checks out to USDA Forest Service) and deposited in the fee tube using provided envelope, or scan the QR code to pay by phone.
Day Use: No Fee.
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 vehicleSee the note

“Camping: $6/Night for single unit, $2/Night for extra vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record

What a stay costs
One nightDerived$14
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$20

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $6 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.

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

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 →

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rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

16 sites

All 16 sites

Up to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 16 of the 16 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

A01standard nonelectric$6
A02standard nonelectric$6
A03standard nonelectric$6
A04standard nonelectric$6
A05standard nonelectric$6
A06standard nonelectric$6
A07standard nonelectric$6
A08standard nonelectric$6
A09standard nonelectric$6
A10standard nonelectric$6
A11standard nonelectric$6
A12standard nonelectric$6
A13standard nonelectric$6
A14standard nonelectric$6
A15standard nonelectric$6
Extra Vehicle FeeExtra Vehicle Feetype not stated$2

Getting there

the agency’s directions · the phone number
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

The weather

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

The land, and who answers for it

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
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.