Union Creek Campground - Rogue River
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 11 of the next 30 nights read 15:45 UTC
- A night
- $22–$35Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 7876 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
There are 73 campsites, each site is unique and not recommended for trailers over 28 feet long . The campground road to sites 64 -87 may be hard for some vehicles to access due to large trees along roadway and tight curves. Union Creek Campground was constructed in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corp. The campground is located 18 miles west of Crater Lake National Park and in the midst of an old growth forest. There are 3 full hook up sites located near the day use parking lot that can accomodate most trailers and off highway vehicles are allowed. Keep reading
Union Creek Resort is within walking distance of most sites and provides access to a convenience store, restaurant, ice cream shop and lodging. The Rogue River and Union Creek ( a 15 mile long tributary) are located within the campground and present opportunities for fishing and swimming. Please note: This is the Union Creek Campground located in southwestern Oregon in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest near Medford. This is not the Union Creek Campground located in eastern Oregon near Baker City.
Recreation
The entire length of the Upper Rogue River is closely followed by the Upper Rogue River Trail. The trail is hiker-only and easily traveled for short segments at a time. Hikers can also enjoy the Rogue Gorge Trail System that travels from Rogue Gorge Day Use through Union Creek Campground and down to Natural Bridge Day Use Area.
Facilities
Each site has a picnic table and fire ring. Drinking water and vault toilets are located throughout the campground. There is no cell phone service. Firewood is available for purchase at the Campground Host Site.
Natural Features
The Upper Rogue River is fed by snowmelt and springs originating on the peaks of the Cascade Range, including the slopes of Mt. Mazama—the volcanic caldera that contains Crater Lake. Along the uppermost portion of the Upper Rogue, the river is narrow and shallow, but very swift. The river has, for a two-mile stretch, carved more than 200 feet down into the Mazama pumice (which was deposited about 8,000 years ago during the explosion that created Crater Lake). Downstream, the Upper Rogue passes through the narrow, turbulent Rogue Gorge of black lava and soon plunges entirely underground (into a lava tube) for about 250 feet at Natural Bridge. Interpretive trails at both of these places provide good views of the river, with signs that explain the natural history. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 560-3400.
Nearby Attractions
Diamond Lake Resort, Crater Lake National Park, Lost Creek Lake, Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway, National Falls, Rogue Gorge, Natural Bridge and Mount McLoughlin are all wonderful sights to see.
What the agency tells you
Please note: This is the Union Creek Campground located in southwestern Oregon in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest near Medford. This is not the Union Creek Campground located in eastern Oregon near Baker City.
Caution: Bears frequent the area. Be aware, keep a clean camp and store all food items in closed containers.
One vehicle is included in campsite fee, an additional fee for extra vehicles must be paid at campground kiosk.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
First-come, first-served sites are available.
Off-road vehicles are not allowed in the campground.
For current conditions at Union Creek Campground please call the High Cascades Ranger District at 541-560-3400.
At RV sites, Electric Vehicles should not be plugged in and charged because the circuit breaker is not rated for this use.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 78
- Hookups
- 3 electric, 4 water, 4 sewer
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and fire ring. Drinking water and vault toilets are located throughout the campground. There is no…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…site has a picnic table and fire ring. Drinking water and vault toilets are located throughout the…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Night sky · 243rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- None
Full this Saturdayread 15:45 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedClosedNot reservable
Every one of the 48 sites on offer is taken this Saturday, and on four midweek nights after it as well. read 15:45 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
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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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$35 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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 15:45 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
79 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 71 mapped sitesAll 79 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 72 of the 79 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. 78 of the 79 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.
| S&P | RV Electric S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | 50 amp | $22–$35 | |||
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | 26 ft | $22–$35 | ||||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 02 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 193 ft | 293 ft | 803 ft | $22 | |
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 03 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 141 ft | 114 ft | 739 ft | $22 | |
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 04 | standard nonelectric | 141 ft | 102 ft | 858 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 05 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 70 ft | 1,005 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 06 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 137 ft | 1,047 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 07 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 201 ft | 974 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 08 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 265 ft | 1,137 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 09 | standard nonelectric | 113 ft | 159 ft | 1,156 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 1/Host | host pad | 264 ft | 874 ft | $22–$35 | |||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 10 | standard nonelectric | 127 ft | 245 ft | 1,280 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 11 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 159 ft | 1,286 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 12 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 163 ft | 1,341 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 13 | standard nonelectric | 122 ft | 68 ft | 1,367 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 14 | standard nonelectric | 106 ft | 63 ft | 1,447 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 15 | standard nonelectric | 162 ft | 124 ft | 1,654 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 16 | standard nonelectric | 219 ft | 84 ft | 1,864 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 17 | standard nonelectric | 121 ft | 37 ftRogue River | 2,436 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 18 | standard nonelectric | 185 ft | 29 ftRogue River | 2,542 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 19 | standard nonelectric | 262 ft | 130 ftRogue River | 2,718 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 20 | standard nonelectric | 405 ft | 115 ftRogue River | 2,997 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 35 | standard nonelectric | 137 ft | 221 ftRogue River | 2,332 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 36 | standard nonelectric | 121 ft | 140 ftRogue River | 2,342 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 37 | standard nonelectric | 264 ft | 309 ft | 2,087 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 38 | standard nonelectric | 264 ft | 337 ft | 1,828 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 39 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 146 ft | 1,167 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 40 | standard nonelectric | 119 ft | 119 ft | 1,050 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 41 | standard nonelectric | 119 ft | 90 ft | 945 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 42 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 100 ft | 631 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 43 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 190 ft | 605 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 44 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 125 ft | 694 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 45 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 225 ft | 649 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 46 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 235 ft | 731 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 47 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 220 ft | 809 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 48 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 236 ft | 896 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 49 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 137 ft | 843 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 50 | standard nonelectric | $22 | |||||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 51 | standard nonelectric | $22 | |||||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 52 | standard nonelectric | 155 ft | 247 ft | 1,178 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 53 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 360 ft | 1,240 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 54 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 254 ft | 1,320 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 55 | standard nonelectric | 145 ft | 321 ft | 1,265 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 56 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 255 ft | 1,370 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 57 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 366 ft | 1,277 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 61 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 407 ft | 1,392 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 62 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 383 ft | 1,502 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 63 | standard nonelectric | 117 ft | 265 ft | 1,557 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 64 | standard nonelectric | 169 ft | 321 ft | 1,795 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 69 | standard nonelectric | 136 ft | 277 ft | 1,969 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 70 | standard nonelectric | 136 ft | 411 ft | 1,916 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 72 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 504 ftRogue River | 2,031 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 73 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 404 ftRogue River | 2,142 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 74 | standard nonelectric | 171 ft | 278 ftRogue River | 2,258 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 75 | standard nonelectric | 138 ft | 208 ftRogue River | 2,368 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 76 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 114 ftRogue River | 2,419 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 77 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 156 ftRogue River | 2,352 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 78 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 34 ftRogue River | 2,446 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 79 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 24 ftRogue River | 2,437 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 80 | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 125 ftRogue River | 2,335 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 81 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | under 10 ftRogue River | 2,433 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 83 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 49 ftRogue River | 2,368 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 84 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 188 ftRogue River | 2,234 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 85 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 150 ftRogue River | 2,259 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 86 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 174 ft | 2,121 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 87 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 137 ft | 2,026 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 89 | standard nonelectric | 178 ft | 100 ft | 1,689 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 90 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 99 ft | 1,552 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 91 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 27 ft | 1,592 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 93 | standard nonelectric | 172 ft | 120 ft | 1,470 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 94 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 26 ft | 1,342 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 95 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 69 ft | 1,318 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 96 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 73 ft | 1,279 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 97 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 69 ft | 1,196 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 98 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 104 ft | 1,153 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | 99 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 47 ft | 1,165 ft | $22 | ||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | RV1 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | $35 | |||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | RV2 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | $35 | |||
| UNION CREEK CAMPGROUND - ROGUE RIVER | RV3 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | $35 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Farewell Bend CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 0.9 miNatural Bridge CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 1.2 miAbbott Creek CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 3.5 mi
Jim Creek Group CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 4.3 miRiver Bridge CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 6.3 mi
Mill Creek CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 7.8 miFrom Medford, OR, take OR-62 (Crater Lake Hwy) about 11 miles past Prospect to Union Creek Campground. From Klamath Falls, travel north on US 97 to OR-62 (Crater Lake Hwy). Travel west about 15 miles past Crater Lake National Park to Farewell Bend Campground, at the intersection of OR-62 and OR-230 (where OR-62 turns south towards Prospect and Medford OR); Union Creek is about 1 mile south on OR-62.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Prospect, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 30°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Union Creek Campground - Rogue River 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyCliff BentzU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJeff MerkleyU.S. Senator · Oregon
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRon WydenU.S. Senator · Oregon
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Union Creek Campground - Rogue River, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon
Dear Cliff Bentz, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Union Creek Campground - Rogue River, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 76 of the 78 campsites the agency files at Union Creek Campground - Rogue River, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 48 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Union Creek Campground - Rogue River keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Union Creek Campground - Rogue River. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Union Creek Campground - Rogue River (Rogue River National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Union Creek Campground - Rogue River, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Union Creek Campground - Rogue River, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 76 of the 78 campsites the agency files at Union Creek Campground - Rogue River, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 48 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Union Creek Campground - Rogue River keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Union Creek Campground - Rogue River. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Union Creek Campground - Rogue River (Rogue River National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Union Creek Campground - Rogue River, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Union Creek Campground - Rogue River, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 76 of the 78 campsites the agency files at Union Creek Campground - Rogue River, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 48 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Union Creek Campground - Rogue River keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Union Creek Campground - Rogue River. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Union Creek Campground - Rogue River (Rogue River National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
How we know this · 4
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…are located throughout the campground. There is no cell phone service. Firewood is available for purchase at the Campground Host…”