Sixmile Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 9 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 54 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Campsites are located along the Wild and Scenic Illinois River. There are 2 covered picnic sites across the road from the camping area. Keep reading
Recreation
There is hiking, swimming and fishing available at the campground.
Facilities
4 walk-in campsites with picnic tables, and fire pits No drinking water 2 vault toilets (within walking distance from campsites) No garbage disposal - Please pack it out Natural Features The area around Six Mile Campground is defined by the remarkably clear, jade-green swimming pools and dramatic rocky shorelines of the Wild and Scenic Illinois River. Nestled in the rugged Siskiyou Mountains, the landscape features unique serpentine soils and forested ridges of Jeffrey pine and Douglas fir. This deep river canyon offers stunning vistas, riverside boulders for sunbathing, and is a prime corridor for spotting bald eagles and river otters near the Six Mile Day Use Recreation Area.
Nearby Attractions
Six Mile Campground serves as a central hub for several outdoor attractions along the Wild and Scenic Illinois River. Immediately adjacent is the Six Mile Day Use Area, which is highly popular for its deep, emerald-green swimming holes, rock jumping ledges, and riverside picnic pavilions. A short distance away, you can visit the historic Swinging Bridge, a wooden suspension bridge providing 60-foot-high views over a rocky river ravine and access to secluded swimming and scuba spots. For those interested in more active pursuits, the Illinois River Trail begins nearby, offering rugged backpacking routes through the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. Further back toward Selma, you can explore the diverse plant life at the Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical Area or enjoy boating and fishing at Lake Selmac.
What the agency tells you
First come, first serve camping, limited to 14 days.
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
Fireworks are prohibited.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
OHV/ATV use prohibited in campground.
Quiet hours between 10pm and 6am.
Must pay via Scan & Pay onsite with the Recreation.gov app. App must be downloaded with cellular service prior to arriving
Dogs must be on a leash.
No trash service available, pack out what you pack in.
The Illinois River has very cold water year-round, is remote and has very volatile flows. Always practice safety when recreating in the river and wear a PFD.
Driving can be dangerous along the Illinois River road, often narrow with blind corners, so please remain cautious.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 5 · 4 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “No drinking water 2 vault toilets (within walking distance from campsites)”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…with picnic tables, and fire pits No drinking water 2 vault toilets (within walking distance from…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water access
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:57 UTC
recreation.gov lists 4 of the 5 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
Watch for a cancellation
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
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 agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:57 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
5 sites
All 5 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. 1 of the 5 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Extra Vehicle Fee | Extra Vehicle Fee | type not stated | $5 |
| Six Mile | 1 | walk to | |
| Six Mile | 2 | walk to | |
| Six Mile | 3 | walk to | |
| Six Mile | 4 | walk to |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
River Bench CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 0.5 mi
Store Gulch CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 1.3 mi
Spalding Pond CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 3.7 miJosephine CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 4.4 mi
Little Falls CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 4.8 miSelmac Lake ParkMedford Grants Pass Field Office · 7.8 miFrom Selma, OR, off of Highway 199 is the turn for the Illinois River Road (Forest Road 4301). Take that road approximately 6 miles to the campsites. Just before the Six Mile Day Use Area you will take the spur road to the right to the parking area for the campsites
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Selma, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 72°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Sixmile 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 →