Tamarack Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 12All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Tamarack Campground is located along the Wild and Scenic Eagle Creek in the southern Wallowa Mountains. This open and sunny site has 12 tent/trailer sites of which 3 are fully accessible. A short accessible path leads down to the creek and ends at two fishing platforms. Popular activities include fishing, hiking, and bird watching. With easy access, this campground can fill-up and particularly during holiday week-ends. Primary use season is May to September. Quiet hours are from 10pm to 6am. Keep reading
Facilities
Tamarack Campground has 12 sites, each with picnic table, fire ring and parking spot.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 31 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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Every line of the receipt · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 sites
All 12 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. 12 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ScanAndPay | 1 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| ScanAndPay | 10 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| ScanAndPay | 11 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| ScanAndPay | 12 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| ScanAndPay | 2 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| ScanAndPay | 3 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| ScanAndPay | 4 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| ScanAndPay | 5 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| ScanAndPay | 6 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| ScanAndPay | 7 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| ScanAndPay | 8 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| ScanAndPay | 9 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Two Color Guard StationWhitman National Forest · 2.3 mi
West Eagle Meadow CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 4.1 mi
North Fork Catherine Creek CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 12 mi
North Fork Catherine Creek Group CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 12 miMcBride CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 13 miFrom Halfway, Oregon travel north on the Cornucopia Highway for about 5 miles; Turn left off the Cornucopia Highway at Carson Grade Road (turns into Forest Road 7710) and go about 5.5 miles to Forest Road 77; Turn left on Forest Road 77 and go 19.5 miles along Paddy Creek and Eagle Creek to Campground; Campground entrance is on your left.
From Baker City, Oregon head north on Interstate 84 for 5 miles to exit 298; turn right off interstate to State 203 Highway and travel 18 miles to Medical Springs, Oregon; In Medical Springs turn right on Big Creek Road and go 1.5 miles to Forest Road 67; Turn left on Forest Road 67 and go about 14 miles to Forest Road 77 road junction; Turn right on Forest Road 77 looping back south and go 0.7 miles; The campground entrance is on the right.
Advisory: Most of these roads are narrow, with gravel or dirt surface
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Halfway, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 18°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Tamarack 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 →