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Oxbow/Brownlee

Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · OR · 44.79904, -116.93311
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Bureau of Land Management lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
USGS topographic map of Oxbow/Brownlee
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Aerial image of Oxbow/Brownlee
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Weather outlook — at Oxbow/Brownlee
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,062 ft.
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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 Oxbow/Brownlee · Bureau of Land Management · OR

15 MI30 MI60 MIYOUR CAMPN ↑Water · 18 miWDump · 18 miDFuel · 12 miFGatway Store and Cafe · Grocery · 2 miGAlbertsons Pharmacy · Pharmacy · 41 miRxCambridge Lumber · Hardware · 20 miHCampbell's Auto Service · Mechanic · 38 miMLaundry · 41 miLShower · 36 miShTwo Rivers Medical Clinic · Urgent care · 38 mi+Outfitter · 36 miOMail · 10 mi@T & T Country Store (Huntington, OR) · EV fast charger · 35 miEV
Straight-line miles · bearings approx · roads run longer
Nearest of each
  • GGrocery2 mi
  • @Mail10 mi
  • FFuel12 mi
  • WWater18 mi
  • DDump18 mi
  • HHardware20 mi
  • EVEV fast charger35 mi
  • ShShower36 mi
  • OOutfitter36 mi
  • +Urgent care38 mi
  • MMechanic38 mi
  • LLaundry41 mi
  • RxPharmacy41 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water

The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 35-mi run (and back).

Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.

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 — Oxbow/Brownlee

Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
2,062 ft
State
OR
Coordinates
44.79904, -116.93311
Cost
Free

Nearby & resupply — around Oxbow/Brownlee · Bureau of Land Management · OR (OpenStreetMap)

  • Nearest townHalfway · ~10.2 mi
  • Drinking waternone within 10 mi
  • FuelFuel · ~11.5 mi
  • Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
  • Dump station~17.9 mi
  • GroceriesGatway Store and Cafe · ~2.0 mi
  • HardwareCambridge Lumber · ~20.2 mi

EV charging — from Oxbow/Brownlee · Bureau of Land Management · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)

Nearby restrooms — around Oxbow/Brownlee · Bureau of Land Management · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)

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Other camps near Oxbow/Brownlee

If this one is full, gated or washed out.

Snow, and when this opens

The nearest automatic snow station is Bear Saddle at 6,170 ft, about 14 miles away. It sits about 4,108 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.

How we know this — Oxbow/Brownlee

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
USFS/BLM authoritative: free & dispersed. Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up).
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 Oxbow/Brownlee

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.

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