Bull Prairie Campground (OR)

I reserved 3 sites and had family coming from Portland. I called umatilla national forest twice to assure we could have fires, as it had gone to phase B on August 28th. I was told yes and it also stated yes on the website. Unfortunately, one hand was not telling the other hand what to do, so we were told on Sunday morning we were in violation, and could be written a ticket, but this was a warning. Had we have known, we would not have traveled there and wasted $200. We would have gathered at our home, or purchased a propane heater in advance. Not impressed. I did my due diligence, and someone let the ball drop on their part.

The road going in to Bull Prairie Lake is very poor shape. We broke a spring on the trailer going in. Once their we had a great time. We talked to very nice campers from all over .Walk around the lake and relaxed. Please fix the road.

Very nice campground. Clean and we'll maintained. Look forward to going back again

Always love the paved path around the lake for morning strolls with coffee.

Beautiful area, great trail, colder weather than expected.

No camp host, no USFS employees for 4 days
No water for 5 days, as the USFS has been unable to hire Campground service people. Including camp hosts. The lake and campgrounds are pristine, please do not lose this beautiful place to lack of staffing problems.

The well water at the campground ran out during our stay. We drove to a neighboring facility about 20 minutes drive and was able to refill our potable water containers. Plan ahead as there are limited local resources.

We booked Group Site 10 and Multi Site 11 together for a long weekend. The sites appear to be neighboring, but they actually run together like one large site. Thankfully most in our large group canceled due to weather because these sites would not have accommodated the numbers that it says. The description lists the Group Site 10 as 25 people, 10 vehicles and the Multi Site 11 as 16 people and 5 vehicles. We had three small travel trailers (largest is 18 ft) and three cars, two people in small tents and that filled both of these sites. There were constant cars and trailers driving through our sites as that appeared to be the turnaround/pull through point at the end of the campground. There was no close restroom. We did not find any potable water. There is no garbage service, this we knew when booking. Our site was not clean. There was human waste with used toilet paper all around our campsites.

Great friendly hosts, beautiful campsite.