Dispersed camping in Oregon

774 known and designated sites on federal land here, 16 of them Forest Service and 758 BLM. That is what the agencies have digitized, and it is not everywhere you may legally camp.

774Known sites

16Forest Service

758BLM

765Recorded no fee

7Units

Before you go

the part of this page that matters most

It is legal in most places, and not in every place.
Dispersed camping is camping outside a developed campground, on land the public owns. The BLM allows it on most of its land unless an area is posted closed or carries a specific restriction, and most national forests allow it outside developed sites. One forest order or one field office rule can close a whole drainage for a season, and a posted sign beats anything on this page.
The Motor Vehicle Use Map decides where you can drive.
A national forest publishes an MVUM saying which roads are open, to which vehicles, in which months, and where you may pull off a road to camp. The corridors here are read from the Forest Service’s own MVUM data and carry the date we read it. Districts reissue these maps, so a corridor drawn from an older reading is a picture of an older rule.
Fourteen days, then move.
The BLM limits dispersed camping to about 14 days in any 28-day period and asks you to move on afterwards, often 25 to 30 miles; stay limits vary by state and field office, and most forest districts set something similar. Keep vehicles on designated roads and trails, camp in a spot already used within about 150 feet of a route, stay 200 feet from lakes and streams, and pack everything out.
Call the district office.
Fire restrictions, road washouts and seasonal gates move faster than any dataset, including this one. Every row below that carries the agency’s own page for the place links to it, and that page carries the office and the phone number.
Public land only.
Everything here is on national forest or BLM ground. Rest areas, truck stops and store parking lots are not public lands, the rules there belong to somebody else, and they are not on this map.

Site records read Aug 26, 2026. 43 CFR 8360 is the BLM’s own regulation.

Source: BLM camping rules on public lands, and 43 CFR 8360 · Aug 26, 2026

Where they are in Oregon

774 mapped

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Source: USFS EDW recreation opportunities and BLM national recreation points, unified by CAMPANAC · Aug 26, 2026

The register · 774

grouped by the unit that administers them

This is a register of known and designated sites, not a national inventory. It holds the places two agencies have digitized as points and the road corridors one forest has digitized as lines. Dispersed camping is legal in a great many places that appear nowhere in it, and a place that appears in it can still be closed today. In Oregon, 475 of the 774 rows sit in Deschutes Wild and Scenic River and John Day Wild and Scenic River alone.

Deschutes Wild and Scenic River328 sites

328 sites, and the agency’s record says the same thing about every one of them: primitive site, no fee, not reservable, and one page for the lot. The BLM page. The names are river miles and bank sides, which is how the agency numbers them.

D1.93R
D10.10L
D10.24R
D10.31L
D10.62L
D10.95L
D10.99R
D11.28L
D11.38R
D11.43R
D12.11R
D12.16L
D12.22L
D12.28L
D12.36L
D12.41L
D12.48L
D12.65R
D12.78R
D12.86L
D13 87L
D13.10L
D13.16R
D13.21L
D13.26R
D13.95L
D14.06L
D14.14L
D14.22L
D14.30L
D14.65R
D15.13R
D15.18R
D15.26R
D15.38R
D15.3R
D15.65R
D15.86R
D16 46R
D16.10R
D16.27R
D16.34R
D16.53R
D16.64L
D16.74R
D17.02L
D17.06L
D17.10L
D17.12R
D17.54R
D17.75L
D18 90L
D18.18R
D18.2 L
D18.75R
D18.83L
D18.86R
D18.90R
D18.93R
D19.23R
D19.96L
D20.09R
D20.26L
D20.32R
D20.37L
D20.44L
D20.70R
D20.74R
D20.8 R
D20.85R
D21 56R
D21.06L
D21.33R
D21.37L
D21.48R
D21.51R
D21.61R
D21.65R
D21.69R
D21.73R
D21.77R
D21.81R
D22.01L
D22.04L
D22.33R
D22.34L
D22.35L
D22.5 R
D22.55R
D22.58R
D22.60L
D23 63L
D23.62L
D23.66R
D3.35R
D3.69R
D3.99R
D4.37R
D4.52R
D4.56L
D4.70R
D4.71L
D4.81R
D4.86L
D4.98R
D5.08R
D5.27R
D5.62L
D5.79L
D5.94L
D54.74L
D56.71L
D57.72L
D57.75L
D58.11L
D58.27R
D59.82L
D59.84L
D6.06L
D6.19L
D6.19R
D6.33L
D6.36R
D6.43L
D6.49R
D6.69L
D6.81R
D6.82L
D6.93R
D60.00L
D60.05R
D60.38R
D60.72R
D61.00L
D61.16R
D61.17R
D61.21R
D61.30R
D61.37L
D62.35L
D62.46L
D62.50L
D62.55L
D62.58L
D63.11R
D63.21R
D63.28R
D63.32R
D63.41R
D63.43R

and 178 more, all of them on the map above.

John Day Wild and Scenic River147 sites

147 sites, and the agency’s record says the same thing about every one of them: primitive site, no fee, not reservable, and one page for the lot. The BLM page. The names are river miles and bank sides, which is how the agency numbers them.