Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Apple Creek
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 43.30523, -122.67581
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Apple Creek · Umpqua National Forest · OR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 4700260 (Apple Cr Cg), 110 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 4700260 (Apple Cr Cg), 110 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 4700260 (Apple Cr Cg): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Apple Creek
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,319 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Apple CreekNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Apple Creek · Umpqua National Forest · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel3 mi
- GGrocery17 mi
- @Mail18 mi
- WWater19 mi
- LLaundry24 mi
- MMechanic28 mi
- EVEV fast charger28 mi
- ShShower29 mi
- RxPharmacy32 mi
- HHardware32 mi
- +Urgent care32 mi
- OOutfitter35 mi
- DDump38 mi
- PPropane39 mi
- AAir-up39 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 3 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Apple Creek
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,319 ft
Ground slope
30.4% · steep
State
OR
Coordinates
43.30523, -122.67581
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Apple Creek · Umpqua National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorth Umpqua River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelDry Creek Store · ~3.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesIdleyld Trading Post · ~17.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Apple Creek · Umpqua National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger28.5 mi straight-line E — Pacific Power Diamond Lake (Diamond Lake, OR) · Electrify America · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 18 within 50 · 108 within 100 · 236 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)33.9 mi — Sutherlin, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Sutherlin
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO34.7 mi — WCEH Roseburg, Roseburg
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.6 mi — Umpqua's Last Resort, Idleyld Park, OR · FLO · J1772 · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 466504 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Apple Creek · Umpqua National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletApple Creek · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPanther · at this camp · USFS
- Flush restroomHorseshoe Bend Campground · ~2.7 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHorseshoe Bend Raft Site · ~2.8 mi E · USFS
Coming out here — Apple Creek · Umpqua National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps North Umpqua River as a perennial river, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 30.4% — steep. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Apple Creek elsewhere
Other camps near Apple Creek
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Horseshoe Bend Campground~2.7 mi · fee
- Island~3.3 mi · fee
- Steamboat Ball Field Group Site~3.6 mi · fee
- Canton Creek~4.0 mi · fee
The unit that manages Apple Creek
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Apple Creek are set by Umpqua National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Apple Creek
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-22: no nightly rate is published by the agency for this campground. Umpqua NF's own Apple Creek Campground page has no fee section and carries no dollar figure anywhere on it -- the only occurrence of the word 'fee' on the page is in the boilerplate pet rules -- and the campground has no recreation.gov listing (rec.gov returns nothing within 3 mi of our pin; the nearest listings are Horseshoe Bend and its Deer Flat group site, both 2.70 mi away and different places). The Forest Service recreation-site record flags the site as fee charged but, unlike most of this batch, records no fee description at all. The page does say the campground is first-come, first-serve. So a charge is real and the number is unpublished -- expect a modest overnight fee and confirm at the fee tube. Checked https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/umpqua/recreation/apple-creek-campground.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Apple Creek
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Apple Creek
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Off-grid communication →All field notes →