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Shotgun Creek Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · OR · 44.22810, -122.84536
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
What the record says about the site — Shotgun Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · OR
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
- Drinking water on site
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 Shotgun Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 690 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Shotgun Creek 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 Shotgun Creek Campground · 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
- GGrocery4 mi
- @Mail4 mi
- MMechanic4 mi
- WWater11 mi
- EVEV fast charger11 mi
- FFuel12 mi
- PPropane13 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- +Urgent care13 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- DDump14 mi
- LLaundry14 mi
- AAir-up14 mi
- OOutfitter15 mi
- ShShower15 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 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 — Shotgun Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
690 ft
Ground slope
1.9% · flat
State
OR
Coordinates
44.22810, -122.84536
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Shotgun Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureShotgun Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Rock Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townMabel · ~1.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~11.8 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~13.0 mi
- Dump stationSweet Home RV Dump · ~13.5 mi
- GroceriesHolley Market · ~8.9 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~13.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicSerenity Lane · ~12.2 mi
- HardwareCarlson Hardware Lumber & Building · ~13.4 mi
EV charging — from Shotgun Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger11.4 mi straight-line W — Harrisburg, OR - Tesla Supercharger (at a restaurant) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach24 within 25 mi · 55 within 50 · 254 within 100 · 341 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS12.9 mi — 10TH AVENUE CPE250 #1, Sweet Home
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO12.9 mi — 10TH AVENUE CPE250 #1, Sweet Home
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)4.0 mi — Mohawk High School, Marcola, OR · 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 220689 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Shotgun Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomShotgun Lower Restroom - Flush · at this camp · BLM
- Flush restroomShotgun Upper Restroom - Flush · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletCrooked Creek Ohv- Single Vault, Cxt · ~1.5 mi NW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletCascade View Ohv Staging Area Vault Toilet · ~2.6 mi W · BLM
Coming out here — Shotgun Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Shotgun 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 1.9% — flat. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (3 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 Shotgun Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Shotgun Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Dolly Varden~21.5 mi · fee
- Broken Bowl~21.8 mi · fee
- Clark Creek Organizational Camp~22.0 mi · fee
- Bedrock Campground~23.1 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Shotgun Creek Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Nw Oregon Upper Willamette 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 — Shotgun Creek Campground
Reserve
https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/273310
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.
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.
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 Shotgun Creek 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 tap is running today, and whether any stream or lake here is drinkable — the record covers the supply the site provides, nothing else
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- 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 — Shotgun Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Off-grid communication →All field notes →