Tip Top Campground
1Heads up1 fire 27 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $6From, per site
- Sites
- 3All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Tip Top Campground is a small peaceful campground located not far from Delintment Lake Campground. This 3 site campground has been newly renovated with new restrooms, picnic tables and fire rings. Except for the last mile, the road access to Tip Top is paved from Burns, Oregon. Contact Info For local information, please call (541) 573-4300 or call (541) 575-3000 for general information. Keep reading
Nearby Attractions
Buck Springs Campground Delintment Lake Yellowjacket Campground Chickahominy Reservoir Radar Hill OHV Area Allison Guard Station Emigrant Creek Ranger District
What the agency tells you
First Come, First Serve
14 Day Stay Limit
Malheur National Forest Alerts
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Malheur National Forest Fire Information
Pack it in/Pack it out
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 3
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:44 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.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
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.
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 15:44 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
3 sites
All 3 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. 3 of the 3 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
Buck Spring CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Deerhorn CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Dixie CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Falls Campground (Malheur National Forest)Malheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Idlewild CampgroundMalheur National Forest · 0.0 mi
Joaquin Miller Horse CampMalheur National Forest · 0.0 miFrom Burns, OR., travel west on US Highway 20 to the junction with the Burns-Izee Road 127 Forest Road 47. Turn right onto County Road 127/Forest Road 47 at the sign for Yellowjacket Lake and Delintment Lake. Follow County Road 127/Forest Road 47 approximately 11.8 miles to the junction with Forest Road 41. Follow Forest Road 41 approximately 27 miles, turn left to stay on Forest Road 41. Follow Forest Road 41 approximately 5.8 miles to the junction with Forest Road 800. Turn left onto Forest Road 800. Follow Forest Road 800 0.5 miles the campground will be on the right.
The agency publishes this point for 18 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Prairie City, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 11°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 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
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
Tip Top 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 →