Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Delta Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 44.16359, -122.28041
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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 — Delta Campground · Willamette National Forest · OR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 1900400 (Delta Campground), 10 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as asphalt surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 1900400 (Delta Campground), 10 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles Apr 20 – Oct 23. That season ends after Oct 23.
MVUM record for FR 1900400 (Delta Campground): “04/20-10/23” 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 →
What the record says about the site — Delta Campground · Willamette National Forest · OR
- Room for 38 parties
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Delta Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,133 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Delta CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Delta Campground · Willamette 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
- GGrocery3 mi
- EVEV fast charger3 mi
- @Mail3 mi
- ShShower6 mi
- MMechanic6 mi
- WWater9 mi
- +Urgent care25 mi
- HHardware27 mi
- DDump27 mi
- RxPharmacy30 mi
- PPropane33 mi
- LLaundry34 mi
- AAir-up37 mi
- OOutfitter38 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 — Delta Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,133 ft
Ground slope
0.6% · flat
State
OR
Coordinates
44.16359, -122.28041
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Delta Campground · Willamette National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMcKenzie River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)South Fork McKenzie River (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townRainbow · ~2.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~9.1 mi
- FuelFuel · ~20.1 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~14.6 mi
- Dump stationSweet Home RV Dump · ~27.2 mi
- GroceriesBlue Sky Market · ~3.0 mi
- HardwareHoy's Home Improvement Center · ~26.7 mi
EV charging — from Delta Campground · Willamette National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger3.0 mi straight-line E — WCEH McKenzie, Blue River, OR · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 47 within 50 · 208 within 100 · 337 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)36.8 mi — Sisters, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Sisters
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.0 mi — WCEH McKenzie, Blue River, OR · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- 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 73409 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Delta Campground · Willamette National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletDelta Campground · ~0.2 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSaddle Dam · ~0.8 mi N · USFS
- Portable toiletBruckart · ~1.1 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMona · ~2.9 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Delta Campground · Willamette National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps McKenzie River as a perennial river, under 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 0.6% — flat. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 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 Delta Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Delta Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Delta Campground~0.2 mi
- Mona~2.9 mi · fee
- McKenzie Bridge Campground~5.3 mi · fee
- Willamette National Forest~6.5 mi
The unit that manages Delta Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Delta Campground are set by Willamette National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Delta Campground
Reserve
https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233340
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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.
Agency page
fs.usda.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Delta Campground
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 — Delta Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →