Camping near Heppner, Oregon

Camping near Heppner at a glance

Public campgrounds

9 (5 National Forest, 3 County, 1 Other Agency)

Getting a site

6 reservable and 3 first-come

Cost

3 free; lowest posted fee at Bull Prairie Campground (north): "Single Site: $14 per night"

Distance from Heppner

0.9 miles (Willow Creek Campground) to 28 miles (Fairview Campground & Trailhead) in a straight line; 1 within 15 miles

Elevation

2,131 ft (Willow Creek Campground) to 4,969 ft (Penland Lake), 9 of 9 on record

Season

4 seasonal with posted dates

Campsites

102 across the 6 campgrounds that state a count

RVs

5 take RVs; hookups at Willow Creek Campground, Cutsforth Park Campground, Anson Wright Park Campground, and Morrow-Grant County OHV Park Campground; longest stated RV length 45 ft (Bull Prairie Campground (north))

Drinking water

5 of 9

Distances are straight-line miles from Heppner's point in the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2025), not driving distances. Every other fact comes from each campground's own sourced record, linked from its page.

More campgrounds within 30 miles of Heppner

• Divide Well, 27 miles from Heppner in a straight line , National Forest , first-come (free); listed under camping near Ukiah.

Things to do near Heppner

Public land and water within 30 miles of Heppner, the public land its campgrounds sit in, and landmarks at those campgrounds, nearest first.

• Blue Mountain Scenic Byway, at Cutsforth Park Campground (16 miles from Heppner): Forested county park beside Umatilla National Forest land on the Blue Mountain Scenic Byway and Bikeway, with a fishing pond, horse pens and Penland Lake nearby.
• Gibson Cave, at Coalmine Hill (17 miles from Heppner): The Bald Mountain Trail from the campground reaches Gibson Cave, a shallow rock shelter with an interpretive sign, about 1.25 miles out, then continues to a viewpoint.
• Umatilla National Forest, 5 of the 9 campgrounds here sit inside this national forest, the nearest Coalmine Hill at 17 miles from Heppner; publiclandsdb.com has its dispersed-camping rule, ranger offices, and boundary.
• Rock Creek, at Anson Wright Park Campground (17 miles from Heppner): Memorial park on Rock Creek donated by the Wright family and open for camping since 1967, six miles from the Morrow-Grant County OHV Park.
• Penland Lake, at Penland Lake (20 miles from Heppner): Lakeshore campground on Penland Lake, known for bluegill and rainbow trout; electric boat motors only, no gas motors. Parts of the shoreline are private or ODFW land.
• OHV trail system, at Morrow-Grant County OHV Park Campground (23 miles from Heppner): About 9,000 acres of ATV, motorcycle and side-by-side trails from easy to expert, a training facility, mud pit and fishing ponds; Bull Prairie Reservoir 12 miles away.
• Bull Prairie Lake, at Bull Prairie Campground & Picnic (27 miles from Heppner): A 28-acre lake stocked annually with trout, circled by a paved accessible path, with a boat ramp and dock for non-motorized boats only.
• Fairview OHV trailhead and Morrow County OHV Park, at Fairview Campground & Trailhead (28 miles from Heppner): The trailhead reaches 80 miles of OHV roads and trails on the Heppner Ranger District; Morrow County OHV Park, 6 miles north on Highway 207, has over 200 miles of trails.

Supplies and emergencies near Heppner

Nearest emergency room: Pioneer Memorial Hospital, 564 E Pioneer Dr, Heppner, OR, 0.6 miles from Heppner , (541) 676-9133. Next nearest: Good Shepherd Medical Center, 610 NW 11th St, Hermiston, OR, 36 miles, (541) 667-3400. Both report emergency services in the CMS Hospital General Information dataset (accessed 2026-09-26) . In an emergency, call 911.

Pharmacy

• Murray's Drug pharmacy · 0.4 miles

Not mapped in OpenStreetMap within 25 miles of Heppner: grocery or convenience store, fuel station, propane, RV dump station, potable water fill, laundromat, and ice. Stores, fuel, propane, dump stations, water fill, laundromats, and pharmacies are the nearest few mapped within 25 miles, straight-line, © OpenStreetMap contributors (data as of 2026-09-29; this extract under the ODbL). Hours are as mapped; call ahead.

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