U.S. Forest Service · Umatilla National Forest · OR

Umatilla Forks Campground

4Heads up4 fires, nearest 4 mi
Wildfire
Hagen fire · 4.1 mi away · 61,380 acres · 99% contained · updated Sep 28, 2026
Wildfire
North Cayuse fire · 15 mi away · 4,887 acres · 97% contained · updated Aug 10, 2026
Wildfire
Paradise fire · 22 mi away · 9,656 acres · 86% contained · updated Sep 15, 2026
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Dorran Road fire · 36 mi away · 200 acres · updated Sep 30, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Right now
OpenInside the published season, our reading
A night
$10From, per site
Season
April 1Opens April 1. No closing date published.
Drawn from the record · 2,340 ft · 57% tree cover · South Fork Umatilla River within reach · Bortle 3 sky
2,340 ftElevation
under 10 ftWater · South Fork Umatilla River
15.4 miSE of Athena, OR
57%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 528th darkest of 770 in OR
Opens April 1. No closing date published.Today

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Situated between the South Fork and the North Fork of the Umatilla River, this campground offers many more activities than just camping. Fishing (catch and release) and hiking in the North Fork Umatilla Wilderness are popular from early spring to late fall. With campsites nestled within a riparian area among an ample mix of conifers and deciduous trees and heavy vegetation that provides great privacy, you will think you are camping in the wilderness itself!

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
River
Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 12 km away
Patchy color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (12 km) · Oct 13, 2026

Phone before you drive

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$10Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$20DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 6

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$10
An overnight camping fee of $10.00 will be charged.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$5

“An additional $5 "per extra vehicle" fee will be charged for each vehicle exceeding the maximum two vehicle per site allowance.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record

What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$10
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$20

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), 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
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today64°Mostly Sunny1% rain
Tonight40°Mostly Clear1% rain
Sunday61°Mostly Sunny
Sunday Night42°Partly Cloudy

NWS forecast for Weston, OR

Typical weather

Typical April night 32°F, day 60°F.

Coldest night of the open season: typical April night 32°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°10°

Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season

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.

Measured at: ELGIN, OR (USC00352597), 17 miles away and 357 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Hellhole65,679 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Lookingglass4,859 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Cliff Bentz, official portrait

Umatilla Forks 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: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (12 km) · Oct 13, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’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.
Nearest place of any size: Weston, OR, 12.7 mi ESE. Straight line.