Bureau of Land Management · Prineville Deschutes Field Office · OR

Trout Creek Campground

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 18 mi
Wildfire
Bench fire · 18 mi away · 67,071 acres · 90% contained · updated Oct 13, 2026
Wildfire
Summit fire · 46 mi away · 20 acres · updated Oct 17, 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
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$8From, per site
1,300 ftElevation
202 ftWater · Deschutes River
5.4 miNE of Warm Springs, OR
0%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 512th darkest of 770 in OR

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Featuring a boat launch, a seasonal ranger station and trailhead, Trout Creek campground offers 21 campsites and three group-use campsites along the Lower Deschutes Wild and Scenic River. Some pull-through campsites as well as day-use parking are available in the recreation site. Access to the 7-mile Trout Creek Trail and Trout Creek Climbing Area originate at the south end of the campground. Keep reading

Know Before You Go

The campground is open year round but no potable water is available. Cell phone service is not available in the campground. Goathead, also known as puncturevine, is present in the area; protect your pets and bicycle tires. The Trout Creek Climbing Area is subject to an annual seasonal wildlife closure from January 15 to August 31 to protect sensitive nesting golden eagles. Point of Interest Spectacular and towering volcanic cliffs—fine examples of what geologists call columnar basalt—can be seen on the Trout Creek trail upriver from the campground.

Facilities

Drinking water
None, bring your own
“…Go The campground is open year round but no potable water is available. Cell phone service is not available…”
Boat ramp
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
River, Creek
Climbing
Fishing
Fly Fishing
Hiking
Cell signal · Cell signal · BLM says
None
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Cell signal: the BLM’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. · Sep 8, 2026

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 $8 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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe agency’s record
A night$8Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$16DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itBureau of Land Managementthe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 8

What you actually pay

The sign priceBureau of Land Management
A night, from$8
May 15th September 15th.
Stay limit14 days.
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

“Individual Campsites : Weekdays: $8.00 per night Weekends*: $12.00 per night Additional Vehicle: $2.00 (excludes towed vehicles) Senior Pass Holders are half price (Individual Campsites only) Group Campsites : Weekday…” · the Bureau of Land Management’s own fee record

Extra vehicle$2

“There is a $2.00 charge per extra vehicle (tow vehicles excluded).” · the Bureau of Land Management’s own fee record

What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$8
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$16

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($8), 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

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight40°Mostly Cloudy
Saturday69°Partly Sunny1% rain
Saturday Night35°Partly Cloudy
Sunday66°Partly Sunny

NWS forecast for Warm Springs, OR

Typical weather

Typical October night 37°F, day 67°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 27°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°20°

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.

Measured at: PELTON DAM, OR (USC00356532), 10 miles away and 110 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Cliff Bentz, official portrait

Trout 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Bureau of Land Management publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Cell signal: the BLM’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. · Sep 8, 2026

“…open year round but no potable water is available. Cell phone service is not available in the campground. Goathead, also known as puncturevine, is…”