Topsy Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 29 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $7From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Located on the rugged shoreline of the newly restored Klamath River, the Topsy Campground provides a quiet location for relaxing camping, picnicking, fishing, and river boating. The area is set in an open ponderosa pine forest with nearby views of Mount McLoughlin, an icon of the southern Oregon Cascade Mountains. Know Before You Go: Open Season Topsy Campground is open seasonally from May through October. 13 Campsites with picnic tables, fire rings, and tent pads; first come, first serve. Universal Access Restrooms available. Drinking Water available. RV Dump Station available. Keep reading
America the Beautiful Pass accepted. Campground Host on site. Pets must be kept on a leash. Point of Interest: Topsy Campground is well situated as a base camp for a jeep excursion into the remote Upper Klamath River canyon. It is also a scenic 30 mile drive to the High Lakes region in the Fremont-Winema National Forest.
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Universal Access Restrooms available. Drinking Water available. RV Dump Station available. America the…”
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Hiking
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $7 with nothing added. 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.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
“$7 per night, $4 per extra vehicle, $2 day use area.” · the Bureau of Land Management’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($7), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Sunset - Lake of the Woods (OR)Winema National Forest · 19 mi
Rainbow BayWinema National Forest · 20 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Keno, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 21°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Topsy 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 →