Union Creek Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 16 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $36–$46Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 59All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
One of Eastern Oregon’s largest Forest Service campgrounds, Union Creek Campground is located 18 miles South of Baker City. Sitting along Phillips Reservoir’s North shore, Union Creek Campground boasts many amenities including over 60 tent/trailer sites, some with full hookups. There is access to boating, mountain biking, hiking and more. This campground is part of the Union Creek Recreation Area, which includes a picnic and day-use area. Union Creek Campground is set on three loops with separate walk-in tent camping, and it has four group sites that can accommodate large groups up to 60 people. PLEASE NOTE: This Union Creek Campground is located in northeastern Oregon in the Wallowa Whitman National Forest. This is not the Union Creek Campground located in southwestern Oregon near Medford. Keep reading
Recreation
The campground is near a boat launch and a small, rocky swim beach. Activities include swimming, fishing, boating, and water skiing. Anglers can fish for bass, trout and perch. There's an access point for the Phillips Lake Shoreline Trail, a scenic trail for hiking and mountain biking. This trail can be connected to make a 16 mile loop around the lake.
Facilities
The parking spurs are paved and gravel and large enough for any size RV. Several sites offer full hookups, and some others offer water and electric. Units are equipped with picnic tables and grills. Drinking water and flush toilets are available. Some of the facilities are handicap-accessible. Sewer Dump is inluded with your fee for B and C loops.
Natural Features
Phillips Reservoir is a popular destination within the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest because it offers scenic views of the surrounding Elkhorn Mountains. The shoreline is forested with a mix of Ponderosa pine and various firs interspersed with small grasslands. Visitors enjoy several varieties of colorful wildflowers in the spring. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 519-3993.
Nearby Attractions
The historic gold mining town of Sumpter is about 10 miles away, West of Hwy 7. Visitors can explore the Sumpter Dredge State Heritage Park, browse the holiday weekend flea markets or take a ride on a historic steam locomotive.
Charges & Cancellations
A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full details see NRRS Reservation Policy
What the agency tells you
Click here for more information about Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
PLEASE NOTE: This Union Creek Campground is located in northeastern Oregon in the Wallowa Whitman National Forest. This is not the Union Creek Campground located in southwestern Oregon near Medford. Don't Move Firewood: Please protect Pacific Northwest forests by preventing the spread of invasive species. Firewood can carry insects and diseases that can threaten the health of our western forests. You can make a difference by obtaining and burning your firewood near your camping destination. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
No ATV's or UTV's: Please note that Union Creek Campground has a no ATV, UTV, OHV policy
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 59 · 4 group
- Hookups
- 55 electric, 55 water, 22 sewer
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 7 of 59
- Accessible sites
- 4
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…tables and grills. Drinking water and flush toilets are available. Some of the facilities are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…equipped with picnic tables and grills. Drinking water and flush toilets are available. Some of the…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Mountain biking
- Paddle Boating
- Picnicking
- Sailing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 321st darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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.
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Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $36–$46 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.
“A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
59 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 42 mapped sitesAll 59 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 42 of the 59 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 59 of the 59 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| LoopA | A11 | standard electric | 30 amp | 71 ft | 222 ftUnion Creek | 1,283 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopA | A12 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 167 ftUnion Creek | 1,349 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopA | A13 | standard electric | 30 amp | 69 ft | 153 ftUnion Creek | 1,363 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopA | A14 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 143 ftUnion Creek | 1,377 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopA | A15 | standard electric | 30 amp | 82 ft | 170 ftUnion Creek | 1,340 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopA | A16 | standard electric | 30 amp | 50 ft | 236 ftUnion Creek | 1,275 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopA | A17 | standard electric | 30 amp | 50 ft | 284 ftUnion Creek | 1,225 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopA | A18 | standard electric | 30 amp | 70 ft | 415 ftUnion Creek | 1,095 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopA | A19 | standard electric | 30 amp | 79 ft | 415 ftUnion Creek | 1,080 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopA | A2 | standard electric | 30 amp | 109 ft | 611 ft | 552 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopA | A20 | standard electric | 30 amp | yes | 71 ft | 286 ftUnion Creek | 1,211 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopA | A21 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 228 ftUnion Creek | 1,287 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopA | A22 | standard electric | 30 amp | 80 ft | 220 ftUnion Creek | 1,298 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopA | A23 | standard electric | 30 amp | yes | 70 ft | 380 ftUnion Creek | 1,140 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopA | A24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 453 ftUnion Creek | 1,062 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopA | A3 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 92 ft | 632 ft | 659 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopA | A4 | standard electric | 30 amp | 92 ft | 664 ft | 747 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopA | A5 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 530 ftUnion Creek | 968 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopA | A6 | standard electric | 30 amp | 55 ft | 482 ftUnion Creek | 1,002 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopA | A7 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 443 ftUnion Creek | 1,029 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopA | A8 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 361 ftUnion Creek | 1,105 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopA | A9 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 241 ftUnion Creek | 1,225 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopB | B1 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | $36–$46 | ||||
| LoopB | B10 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopB | B11 | standard electric | 30 amp | 174 ft | 963 ft | 173 ft | $36–$46 | ||
| LoopB | B12 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 144 ft | 592 ft | 569 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopB | B13 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 231 ft | 709 ft | 354 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopB | B14 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopB | B15 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopB | B17 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 144 ft | 586 ft | 570 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopB | B2 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 143 ft | 1,047 ft | 479 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopB | B3 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopB | B4 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopB | B5 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopB | B6 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 1,069 ft | 394 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopB | B7 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 1,030 ft | 310 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopB | B8 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 965 ft | 271 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopB | B9 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopC | B16 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopC | C1 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | yes | 105 ft | 388 ft | 226 ft | $36–$46 |
| LoopC | C10 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopC | C11 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopC | C12 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopC | C13 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 116 ft | 757 ft | 124 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopC | C14 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 116 ft | 641 ft | 239 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopC | C15 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopC | C17 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 175 ft | 620 ft | 383 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopC | C2 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopC | C3 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | yes | 95 ft | 489 ft | 323 ft | $36–$46 |
| LoopC | C4 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 471 ft | 389 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopC | C5 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopC | C6 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $36–$46 | ||||
| LoopC | C7 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 127 ft | 800 ft | 312 ft | $36–$46 | |
| LoopC | C8 | standard electric | 30 amp | $36–$46 | |||||
| LoopC | C9 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 127 ft | 808 ft | 186 ft | $36–$46 | |
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND | GA | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 177 ft | 225 ft | 1,106 ft | $120 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND | GB | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 177 ft | 234 ft | 940 ft | $120 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND | GC | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 238 ft | 246 ft | 717 ft | $120 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND | GD | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 364 ft | 238 ft | 401 ft | $120 |
25 of 59 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Millers Lane CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 2.3 mi
Southwest Shore CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 2.8 mi
McCully Forks CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 12 mi
Antlers Guard Station CabinWhitman National Forest · 13 miWetmore CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 18 miYellow Pine CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 18 miFrom Baker City, Oregon, travel south on Highway 7 for about 18 miles. The campground and day-use entrance is on the left side of the road. Follow the signs in the Union Creek Recreation Area down to the various campground loops and areas.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sumpter, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 64°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
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
Union 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 →