Willow Prairie Horsecamp
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 36 mi
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:41 UTC
- A night
- $15When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 11In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Willow Prairie Horse Camp is nestled in tall timber at an elevation of 4,400 feet just southwest of Mt. Mc Loughlin, near a beautiful meadow. The camp was converted to a horse camp in 1990 with the addition of 19 miles of interconnecting horseback riding trails. The renovation was made possible through a partnership between the Forest Service and the Coalition of Equestrian Clubs, which provided much of the labor for this wonderful facility. Keep reading
Recreation
Willow Prairie Horse Camp offers equestrian access to a wide variety of trails. Rugged peaks, sparkling lakes and forested areas provide the backdrop for many of these rides.
Facilities
Willow Prairie offers large equestrian sites, each with corrals, a picnic table, campfire ring with grill and ample parking. A vault toilet is provided. A watering trough is available for horses, and a trailer is left on-site for campers to deposit manure and hay upon departure.
Natural Features
The unique character of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest is composed of two distinct geological provinces: the Cascade Range and the Siskiyou Mountains. The Cascade Range is dominated by snow-capped volcanic peaks such as 9,495' Mt. Mc Loughlin within the Sky Lakes Wilderness. The Siskiyou area embodies world-class wild rivers, remarkable fisheries and the most complex and treasured plant communities in the Pacific Northwest. Adjacent to the camp is a wetland area featuring beaver dams and several large ponds where wildlife abounds. Sandhill cranes, Canada geese, ducks, elk, deer and many others frequent the area.
Nearby Attractions
Willow Prairie Guard Station was constructed on the edge of the meadow in 1924 by a Forest Service road crew. Its main purpose at that time was as a firefighter guard station. The original cabin was recently restored by local volunteers and employees of the Butte Falls Ranger District. Fish Lake is just 10 minutes from Willow Prairie. Visitors enjoy fishing, boating, canoeing and swimming. A small resort on the lake offers motor boat and canoe rentals. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 560-3400.
What the agency tells you
One vehicle is included in campsite fee, an additional fee for extra vehicles must be paid at campground kiosk.
Due to the spread of invasive noxious weeds, feed for stock from non-certified sources are not allowed on National Forest System Lands. Please use certified weed free feed for your animals during your stay. Click here for more information.
Store food properly so not to attract wildlife
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Click here for more information about Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11 · 10 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…ring with grill and ample parking. A vault toilet is provided. A watering trough is available for…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Meadow
- Birding
- Horseback riding
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 568th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:41 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 · 11
What you actually pay
“Nightly/daily rates are now $15.00 and extra vehicles are $5.00” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Willow Prairie Horsecamp 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 · 3.5 mi · 31 sites
- Whiskey Springs CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 6.4 mi · 34 sites
- Beaver Dam Group CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 7.2 mi · 1 site
- River Bridge CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 29 mi · walk-up
recreation.gov availability, read 16:41 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 12 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. 11 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA WILLOW PRAIRIE HORSECAMP | 001 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 282 ft | $15 |
| AREA WILLOW PRAIRIE HORSECAMP | 002 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 33 ft | 384 ft | $15 |
| AREA WILLOW PRAIRIE HORSECAMP | 003 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 392 ftWest Branch Willow Creek | $15 |
| AREA WILLOW PRAIRIE HORSECAMP | 004 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 320 ftWest Branch Willow Creek | $15 |
| AREA WILLOW PRAIRIE HORSECAMP | 005 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 240 ftWest Branch Willow Creek | $15 |
| AREA WILLOW PRAIRIE HORSECAMP | 006 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 116 ft | 179 ftWest Branch Willow Creek | $15 |
| AREA WILLOW PRAIRIE HORSECAMP | 007 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 89 ft | 157 ftWest Branch Willow Creek | $15 |
| AREA WILLOW PRAIRIE HORSECAMP | 008 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 89 ft | 243 ftWest Branch Willow Creek | $15 |
| AREA WILLOW PRAIRIE HORSECAMP | 009 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 155 ftWest Branch Willow Creek | $15 |
| AREA WILLOW PRAIRIE HORSECAMP | 010 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 242 ftWest Branch Willow Creek | $15 |
| AREA WILLOW PRAIRIE HORSECAMP | HOST | host pad | 40 ft | 33 ft | 392 ft | $15 |
| S&P | Equestrian Nonelectric S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $15 |
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.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Willow Prairie CabinRogue River National Forest · 0.1 mi
North Fork Campground (OR)Rogue River National Forest · 2.5 mi
Doe Point CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 3.5 mi
Big Elk Guard StationRogue River National Forest · 3.7 mi
Fish Lake Campground - Rogue RiverRogue River National Forest · 3.9 mi
Whiskey Springs CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 6.4 miFrom Butte Falls, take County Road 821 (Butte Falls-Fish Lake Highway) approximately 17 miles southeast to Forest Road 3738. Turn west (right) on Forest Road 3738 and drive 1.3 miles to where Forest Road 3738 intersects Forest Road 3735. Turn left onto Forest Road 3735 and you will see the campground sign on your right.
From Medford/Klamath Falls (Highway 140), turn north on County Road 821 and drive approximately 2 miles northwest to Forest Road 3738. Turn west (left) on Forest Road 3738 and drive 1.3 miles to where 3738 intersects Forest Road 3735. Turn left onto Forest Road 3735 and you will see the campground sign 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 Butte Falls, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 23°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
Willow Prairie Horsecamp 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 →