FEATURED CAMPGROUNDS

Washington

Sheep Creek

12 campsites with tables and accessible vault toilets

This Department of Natural Resources campground is set on Sheep Creek and a little northwest of the town of Northport. There are Lots of trees and lots of room. This is a good one for the family with a nice day use area. Hiking trails nearby. Just up the road about 1 mile is the Upper Sheep Creek Campground with 2 campsites that set very close to the Creek.

Directions: From Kettle Falls, travel north on Highway 25 for approximately 35 miles to the town of Northport. Continue on through town and over the Columbia River Bridge. Follow this road for another mile to the Sheep Creek Road and take a left. Go straight up the gravel road, past the car race track, and in 4.5 miles arrive at the campground on your right.

Oregon

Gold Dredge

5 campsites with tables and toilets

This camp is set on the North Fork John Day River. A very beautiful area with fishing and photography as some of the things to keep you occupied. There is a lot of shade. Not recommended for low clearance vehicles.

Directions: From Dale, travel northeast on Forest Service Road 55 for about 6 miles to Forest Service Road 5506 and take a right. Follow this road for another 5 miles or so to the site.

Idaho

North Fork Slate Creek

5 campsites with tables and toilets

Located at the confluence of Slate Creek and its North Fork. All the sites here are set in a forested area with grassy spots for tents. There is easy access to the creek from all sites. One drive to site and the other 4 require you to carry your gear a short distance. A trailhead for hikers is located just up the road. This is a beautiful and secluded place to hang out.

Directions: From Riggins, travel north on Highway 95 for about 22 miles and take a right onto the Slate Creek Road. It comes up quick so beware. In about .5 miles you’ll come to a junction with the Nut Basin Road and you want to bear left. Keep going for a mile or so and then take a hard right onto Forest Service Road 354. This road is easy to miss, so if you find yourself back on the highway, just turn around and you’ll see the sign on the left this time. Follow this road for about 4.4 miles and you’ll come to a junction with a bridge going off to the right; you want to stay going straight. Continue on and in 4.7 miles you arrive at the camp on the right.

Washington

Margaret McKenny

This is a large campground with a stream nearby. There is a campground host and hiking and horseback riding trails nearby. About .5 miles or so before you reach this site, there is a road to the left marked "Mima Mounds Natural Area". It's only about a mile to the site, and well worth the journey. There is an interpretive display and about 1900 feet of handicap access barrier-free paved trail through the mysteriously mounded prairie.

Directions: From Olympia, travel south on Interstate 5 to the Littlerock exit, exit 95. Follow this road for about 8 miles to the town of Littlerock. This road now turns into 128th Ave. Keep going straight on this road for .5 miles to the Waddle Creek Road and take a right. Follow Waddle Creek Road for about 1.5 miles to the campground entrance on your left.

Oregon

Campbell Lake

The elevation is 7,200 ft.
This attractive campground, pack it in, pack it out, stretches
around the shores of Lake Campbell under a thick canopy of
Lodgepole pine. The campsites hug the shoreline. Campbell Lake
was popular with Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees. It
is reported some of the CCC handmade dugout canoes are either
sunk in Campbell Lake or Deadhorse Lake.
This is bear country; practice safe food storage techniques.

Directions: From Lakeview, travel west on Highway 140 for about 30 miles and take a right at road signed for Corral Creek. This is Forest Service Road 3660. In 15 miles you'll come to a junction with Forest Service Road 34 and you want to take a right. Follow this road for about 4.3 miles and take a right onto Forest Service Road 3428 and go another 2 miles and bear left at the "Y" onto Forest Service Road 047. Follow this road for about 4.6 miles where you come to a junction with Forest Service Road 28. Take a left here onto Forest Service Road 28 and continue on for 2 miles to a "Y" and bear left onto Forest Service Road 28. Continue on and in about 6.3 miles take a left towards Campbell Lake. Now on Forest Service Road 033, follow this road for about 2 miles into the camp.

Idaho

Bear Valley

This campground is split up into two parts. The first camp is right before you cross the Bear Valley Creek Bridge and has 10 sites; one right on the creek and the others set back in the woods. Some of the sites are close together while others are spread out for privacy. Just across the bridge, on the right is the other part of the campground. Here there are 3 sites with toilet and rock fire rings but no tables, set in an open area close to the creek. Both camps are very pretty and there is a trailhead just up the road. July-September.

Note: Bear Valley Creek is home to a variety of endangered fish which are strictly catch and release.

Directions: From Stanley, travel Highway 21 for about 20 miles and take a right onto Forest Service Road 579. Continue on this road for about 10 miles and at the “T” you want to take a left staying on Forest Service Road 579. Keep going on this road for 2.3 miles and at junction with Forest Service Road 551 you want to stay straight on 579. Continue on for another 5 miles to the site on the right.

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