Spring Creek Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 24 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 4All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Spring Creek Campground, near La Grande, Oregon, is located in an open pine forest near a small meadow. Just a short drive from I-84, this small campground offers 4 campsites. This campground is all about peace and quiet, making it a great escape from the hustle and bustle. There are some trails nearby, and the scenery is just stunning, with plenty of trees and open spaces. Primary use season is May to October. Quiet hours are from 10pm to 6am. Keep reading
Facilities
Spring Creek Campground has 4 campsites, each with a picnic table, fire ring and parking area.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 4
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Meadow
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 28 km away
- Patchy color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:40 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
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We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 17
What you actually pay
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 15:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 sites
All 4 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. 4 of the 4 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Umatilla Forks CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 2.7 miBird Track Springs CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 3.9 mi
Summit Guard Station BunkhouseUmatilla National Forest · 9.7 miSpool Cart CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 11 miFrog Heaven Forest CampWhitman National Forest · 17 mi
Umapine CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 21 miFrom La Grande travel northwest on Interstate 84 for about 12.5 miles to the Spring Creek Road Exit 248; Travel southwest on the Spring Creek Road which becomes Forest Road 21 for 1.5 miles to the campground entrance on the right side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for La Grande, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 24°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Spring Creek 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 →