Whiskey Springs Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 33 mi
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:48 UTC
- A night
- $16When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 34In the agency’s record
- Season
- May 1 – November 30Open May 1 through November 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Whiskey Springs Campground is nestled within the forest providing shady campsites that are flat and located along a loop . This campground has a classic "forest feel" to it. Keep reading
Recreation
A one mile interpretive loop trail is located within this campground.
Facilities
The campground has vault toilets and drinking water available.
Natural Features
This campground is located on the site of the original supply road (Old Military Road) for Fort Klamath.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby Willow Lake is located off of the Butte Falls highway with an expansive 927 acres of recreational activities including hiking trails, swimming, fishing, camping and boating, Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 560-3400.
What the agency tells you
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.
First-come, first-served sites are available.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Off-road vehicles are not allowed in the campground.
For current conditions please call the High Cascades Ranger District at (541) 560-3400
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 34 · 7 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Facilities The campground has vault toilets and drinking water available. Natural Features This…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…The campground has vault toilets and drinking water available. Natural Features This campground is…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 561st darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:48 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Whiskey Springs Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Doe Point CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 8.6 mi · 31 sites
- Beaver Dam Group CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 14 mi · 1 site
- River Bridge CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 23 mi · walk-up
- Jim Creek Group CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 26 mi · 1 site
recreation.gov availability, read 16:48 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
35 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 34 mapped sitesAll 35 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 34 of the 35 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $16 | ||
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 001 - Host | host pad | 40 ft | 77 ft | 908 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 846 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 003 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 60 ft | 826 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 60 ft | 877 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 62 ft | 809 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 62 ft | 870 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 101 ft | 789 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 101 ft | 813 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 131 ft | 666 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 56 ft | 608 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 56 ft | 640 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 70 ft | 563 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 63 ft | 513 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 63 ft | 525 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 68 ft | 445 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 68 ft | 401 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 71 ft | 301 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 58 ft | 258 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 019 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 200 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 70 ft | 185 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 255 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 58 ft | 231 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 58 ft | 288 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 73 ft | 351 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 73 ft | 299 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 370 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 63 ft | 311 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 028 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 61 ft | 588 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 61 ft | 588 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 89 ft | 408 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 56 ft | 425 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 56 ft | 478 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 101 ft | 506 ft | $16 |
| WHISKEY SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 034 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 118 ft | 556 ft | $16 |
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.
25 of 35 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Fourbit Ford CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 0.8 mi
Willow Prairie CabinRogue River National Forest · 6.3 mi
Willow Prairie HorsecampRogue River National Forest · 6.4 mi
Doe Point CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 8.6 mi
North Fork Campground (OR)Rogue River National Forest · 8.7 mi
Fish Lake Campground - Rogue RiverRogue River National Forest · 8.8 miFrom Butte Falls, OR, take County Rt. 821 south 9 miles to campground sign. Turn left after sign onto Forest Rt. 3065 and go 0.3 miles to another campground sign. Turn left at sign and go 0.3 miles to campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Butte Falls, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 70°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical November night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Whiskey Springs 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 →