Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree
Lower Lake Creek Falls
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · OR · 44.15927, -123.57308
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Lower Lake Creek Falls
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 687 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Lower Lake Creek FallsNIFC · 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 Lower Lake Creek Falls · Bureau of Land Management · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery1 mi
- @Mail3 mi
- ShShower12 mi
- DDump13 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- EVEV fast charger13 mi
- WWater14 mi
- MMechanic14 mi
- OOutfitter14 mi
- +Urgent care19 mi
- LLaundry19 mi
- AAir-up20 mi
- PPropane22 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 1 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 — Lower Lake Creek Falls
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
687 ft
Ground slope
2.6% · flat
Nearest rail line
~8.6 mi · main line
State
OR
Coordinates
44.15927, -123.57308
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Lower Lake Creek Falls · Bureau of Land Management · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLake Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Spring Canyon Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townTriangle Lake · ~0.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~8.6 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelCarson · ~17.4 mi
- Propane / LPGFerrellgas · ~30.9 mi
- Dump station~12.8 mi
- GroceriesRay's Food Place · ~13.0 mi
- PharmacyCaris Pharmacy · ~13.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicBestMed Urgent Care · ~18.7 mi
- HardwareB&I Hardware and Rental · ~18.9 mi
EV charging — from Lower Lake Creek Falls · Bureau of Land Management · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger13.3 mi straight-line SE — WCEH Veneta · 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 reach5 within 25 mi · 41 within 50 · 151 within 100 · 329 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)25.4 mi — Eugene, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Eugene
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.1 mi — Elmira High School · Blink Network · 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 73434 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Lower Lake Creek Falls · Bureau of Land Management · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomLower Lake Double Cxt · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletCxt Toilet-Single Vault (Hult Equestrian) · ~6.3 mi NE · BLM
- RestroomUpper Lake Cxt Double · ~6.8 mi NE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletSilver Creek Single Vault Toilet - Cxt · ~7.1 mi SE · BLM
Coming out here — Lower Lake Creek Falls · Bureau of Land Management · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lake 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 2.6% — flat. 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.
- Rail line mapped ~8.6 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in it.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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 Lower Lake Creek Falls elsewhere
Other camps near Lower Lake Creek Falls
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Upper Lake Creek Dispersed Camping~6.9 mi
- Archie Knowles~14.9 mi
- Siuslaw River Srma~15.0 mi
- North Fork Siuslaw Campground~18.5 mi
Who holds the land at Lower Lake Creek Falls
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Nw Oregon Siuslaw Field Office, manager on record: Bureau of Land Management (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Lower Lake Creek Falls
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "No Fees" https://www.blm.gov/visit/lower-lake-creek-falls
Source
Bureau of Land Management 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
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | No fee 2026-09-19: "No Fees" Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/lower-lake-creek-falls (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
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 Lower Lake Creek Falls
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.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- 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 — Lower Lake Creek Falls
Camping near a reservoir →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →How to read this page →All field notes →