Umatilla Forks Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 23 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10–$15Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 8All of them booked ahead
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! This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Keep reading
Once on-site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. If this option is available, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service.
Recreation
South Fork and the North Fork of the Umatilla River for fishing and hiking in the North Fork Umatilla Wilderness.
Facilities
Fire rings, picnic tables, one patable water site and three vault toilets.
Natural Features
Situated between the South Fork and the North Fork of the Umatilla River with a fantastic view the lower North Fork Umatilla Wilderness and Graves Butte. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (509) 522-6276 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
North Fork Umatilla WIlderness, North and South Fork Umatilla Rivers.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 8 · 8 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 8 of 8 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 8 of 8 campsite records, DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 8 of 8 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Accessible Swimming
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Canoeing
- Crawfishing
- Diving
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 29 km away
- Patchy color
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.
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Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
“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
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:44 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
8 sites
All 8 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. 8 of the 8 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 · the phone number
Where it is
Summit Guard Station BunkhouseUmatilla National Forest · 11 miFrog Heaven Forest CampWhitman National Forest · 15 miFrazier Campground & TrailheadUmatilla National Forest · 19 miFrom Pendleton, Oregon: Drive east for 7 miles on Interstate 84 and take Exit 216. Go left (north) for 2 miles to the blinking 4-way stoplight. Take a right onto Mission Road and continue onto Cayuse Road/County Road 931/Emigrant Road. After 1.7 miles turn left onto Cayuse Road (follow Bar M Ranch signs). Travel about 16 miles to where it meets Bingham Road. Turn right onto Bingham Road/County Road 900, cross the railroad tracks, and follow Bingham Road/County Road 900 (NOTE: this road becomes Forest Service Road 32 at the forest boundary) for approximately 14 miles to the campground entrance on your right.
From Walla Walla, Washington: Take Highway 11 to Adams, Oregon and turn left at McGregor on Mann Road. Travel 5 miles and turn left onto Cayuse Road. Travel Cayuse Road for 1.25 miles and turn left onto Bingham Road/County Road 900, cross the railroad tracks, and follow Bingham Road/County Road 900 (NOTE: this road becomes Forest Service Road 32 at the forest boundary) for approximately 9.5 miles to the campground entrance on your right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Meacham, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 20°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
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 →