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Union Creek Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 44.69168, -118.02967
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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 — Union Creek Campground · Wallowa-Whitman National Forest · OR
No road within 1 mi of the pin in the national MVUM layer — and that layer carries no data at all for this forest (unit 0616), so this is the layer's silence, not the ground's. Access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 Union Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,218 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Union 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 Union Creek Campground · Wallowa-Whitman National Forest · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- ShShower9 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- WWater9 mi
- FFuel9 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- HHardware11 mi
- +Urgent care11 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- RxPharmacy37 mi
- DDump48 mi
- LLaundry50 mi
- OOutfitter57 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 9 mi out.
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 — Union Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
4,218 ft
Ground slope
8% · noticeable
State
OR
Coordinates
44.69168, -118.02967
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Union Creek Campground · Wallowa-Whitman National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureUnion Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townSumpter · ~9.0 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~9.3 mi
- FuelFuel · ~9.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~9.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicMountain Valley Mental Health · ~11.4 mi
- HardwareDo it Best · ~11.3 mi
EV charging — from Union Creek Campground · Wallowa-Whitman National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger11.8 mi straight-line NE — OTEC BAKER ARMORY, Baker City, OR · 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 reach2 within 25 mi · 9 within 50 · 35 within 100 · 102 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)12.4 mi — Baker City, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Baker City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)11.4 mi — Geiser Grand Hotel - Tesla Destination, Baker City, OR · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- 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 312697 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Union Creek Campground · Wallowa-Whitman National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomUnion Creek Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Flush restroomUnion Creek Boat Launch · ~0.5 mi SE · USFS
- Flush restroomUnion Creek Picnic Area · ~0.5 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSocial Security Point Trailhead · ~0.9 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Union Creek Campground · Wallowa-Whitman National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Union Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 8% — noticeable. 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 Union Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Union Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Millers Lane Campground~2.3 mi · fee
- Southwest Shore Campground~2.7 mi · fee
- Mccully Forks Campground~11.8 mi · fee
- Snake River-Mormon Basin Back Country Byway~16.3 mi
The unit that manages Union Creek Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Union Creek Campground are set by Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Union Creek 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: $16 per night for a tent or single site is the forest's figure, and the hookup loops cost more -- but the two agency channels disagree by $2 on every hookup tier, so budget the higher one. The forest page says $34 per night for a site with electric and water in Loops B and C, $44 for electric, water and sewer in Loop A, and $100 for the group site; recreation.gov's 2026 peak season (May 15 to Sep 30) charges $36 for B and C, $46 for Loop A, $80 for a Loop A double and $120 for the group site. recreation.gov publishes no tent-only tier, so the $16 is the forest's own number and unconfirmed by the second channel. Extra vehicles are $6 per vehicle per day, overflow is $10, day use is $6 per vehicle per day, and the RV dump station is $10 per use in the fee box (the prose on the same page says $6 for the dump station -- another self-contradiction on this page). Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/wallowa-whitman/recreation/union-creek-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233115.
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 Union 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.
- 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 — Union Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →