Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Imnaha Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 42.70383, -122.33213
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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 — Imnaha Campground · Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests · OR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 3700939, 430 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 3700939, 430 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles Jan 1 – Oct 11. That season ends after Oct 11.
MVUM record for FR 3700939: “01/01-10/11 10/22-12/31” 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 Imnaha Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,799 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Imnaha CampgroundNIFC · 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 Imnaha Campground · Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail9 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- WWater14 mi
- DDump14 mi
- FFuel14 mi
- LLaundry25 mi
- MMechanic25 mi
- +Urgent care25 mi
- HHardware25 mi
- EVEV fast charger25 mi
- RxPharmacy26 mi
- ShShower29 mi
- OOutfitter34 mi
- PPropane36 mi
- AAir-up36 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 9 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 — Imnaha Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
3,799 ft
Ground slope
4.1% · gentle
State
OR
Coordinates
42.70383, -122.33213
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Imnaha Campground · Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureImnaha Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townProspect · ~7.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~14.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationMazama Campground Dump Station · ~14.1 mi
- GroceriesProspect Store · ~8.7 mi
- PharmacyShady Cove Pharmacy · ~25.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicChiloquin Open Door Clinic · ~25.2 mi
- HardwareWright's Hardware · ~25.4 mi
EV charging — from Imnaha Campground · Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger25.4 mi straight-line E — CHILOQUIN EV CHI EVCS LVL 3 · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 32 within 50 · 72 within 100 · 185 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)36.6 mi — Chemult, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Chemult
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)18.3 mi — STORE STORE, Fort Klamath, OR · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 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 358493 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Imnaha Campground · Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletImnaha Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLower South Fork Campground · ~4.0 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletAbbott Creek Campground · ~8.1 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMill Creek Campground · ~9.3 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Imnaha Campground · Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Imnaha Creek as a perennial stream, 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 4.1% — gentle. 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 Imnaha Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Imnaha Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Lower South Fork Campground~4.0 mi · fee
- Bessie Shelter~4.1 mi
- Medco Pond Dispersed Camping~5.2 mi
- Medeco Pond Dispersed Camping~6.3 mi
The unit that manages Imnaha Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Imnaha Campground are set by Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Imnaha Campground
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. Rogue River-Siskiyou NF publishes no recreation page for Imnaha Campground itself. The only forest page at these coordinates is for the IMNAHA GUARD STATION, a rustic rental cabin with a fireplace, hot shower and flush toilet that goes for eighty dollars per night -- that is a cabin rental, NOT this campground per-night rate, and it must not be quoted as one. The guard station page itself refers to the Imnaha Campground as a separate place nearby. The Forest Service recreation-site database records a single site at ten dollars per night plus five dollars per extra vehicle, but no public agency page confirms that, and the campground has no recreation.gov listing. Expect a modest charge and confirm at the fee tube. Checked https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/rogue-siskiyou/recreation/imnaha-guard-station.
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 Imnaha 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 — Imnaha Campground
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Getting unstuck →All field notes →