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Vincent Creek Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · OR · 43.79353, -123.77653
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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 — Vincent Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · OR
- No drinking water — carry your own
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 Vincent Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 194 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Vincent Creek CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Vincent 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
- GGrocery8 mi
- WWater14 mi
- LLaundry15 mi
- ShShower15 mi
- FFuel15 mi
- @Mail15 mi
- EVEV fast charger15 mi
- RxPharmacy17 mi
- HHardware18 mi
- PPropane18 mi
- DDump19 mi
- OOutfitter19 mi
- MMechanic20 mi
- +Urgent care21 mi
- AAir-up35 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 8 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 — Vincent Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
194 ft
Ground slope
9.5% · noticeable
State
OR
Coordinates
43.79353, -123.77653
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Vincent Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSmith River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Rachel Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townNorth Fork · ~7.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~14.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationRV Dump Station · ~19.1 mi
- GroceriesSmith River Grocery and Tavern · ~7.5 mi
- PharmacyRite Aid · ~21.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicLower Umpqua Hospital · ~19.2 mi
- HardwareHennick's Lakeside Market · ~24.9 mi
EV charging — from Vincent Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger15.1 mi straight-line SE — WCEH Elkton · 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 reach4 within 25 mi · 38 within 50 · 99 within 100 · 312 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)21.9 mi — Fred Meyer - Tesla Supercharger, Florence
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)15.0 mi — Chevron Mapleton · LOOP · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · 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 73427 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Vincent Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomSmith River Falls Restroom · ~1.8 mi W · BLM
- RestroomRestroom · ~2.7 mi W · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletKentucky Falls · ~9.3 mi N · USFS
- RestroomClay Creek Cxt - West · ~12.8 mi NE · BLM
Coming out here — Vincent Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Smith River as a perennial river, ~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 9.5% — noticeable. 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 Vincent Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Vincent Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Smith River Falls Campground~1.9 mi
- Fawn Creek Campground~2.8 mi
- Siuslaw River Srma~13.1 mi
- Umpqua Field Office~13.5 mi · fee
The unit that manages Vincent Creek Campground
Vincent Creek Campground is in the Umpqua Field Office, Coos Bay District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
How we know this — Vincent Creek Campground
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.
Agency page
recreation.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
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 Vincent 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 — Vincent Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Camping with a dog →All field notes →