U.S. Forest Service · Rogue River National Forest · OR
South Fork Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 30 mi
Wildfire
Nfca #36 fire · 30 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
W Fork Evans Creek fire · 35 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Wildfire
Forty Four fire · 41 mi away · 9 acres · updated Oct 15, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · 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
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Season
- June 1 – September 30Open June 1 through September 30
4,010 ftElevation
475 ftWater · South Fork Rogue River
23.8 miE of Shady Cove, OR
62%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 352nd darkest of 770 in OR
Open June 1 through September 30Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
South Fork Campground is near the South Fork of the Rogue River within an old growth forest. Keep reading
Facilities
6 campsites with picnic tables, and fire pits No garbage disposal - Please pack it out
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
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. 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
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note
“Camping: $8 /site/night Extra Vehicles: $5 /night” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 5
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. · Aug 24, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · 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: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Lodgepole Guard StationRogue River National Forest · 2.3 mi
Imnaha Guard StationRogue River National Forest · 3.9 mi
Fourbit Ford CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 11 mi
Whiskey Springs CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 11 mi
Mill Creek CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 12 mi
Fourmile Lake CampgroundWinema National Forest · 13 mi
Lodgepole Guard StationRogue River National Forest · 2.3 miImnaha Guard StationRogue River National Forest · 3.9 miFourbit Ford CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 11 miWhiskey Springs CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 11 miMill Creek CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 12 miFourmile Lake CampgroundWinema National Forest · 13 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight52°Partly Cloudy
Saturday67°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night46°Mostly Clear
Sunday66°Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Prospect, OR
Source: National Weather Service, MFR forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical June night 37°F, day 75°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical September night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
90°32°10°
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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.
Measured at: CHILOQUIN 12 NW (FORT KLAMATH), OR (USC00351574), 18 miles away and 170 ft higher
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
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
South Fork 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it out of season. The season it publishes is the bar below.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 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 · Sep 9, 2026
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: Prospect, OR, 9 mi SE (a census designated place). Straight line.