Phillips Lake Disbursed

This is a disbursed site, call it Phillips Lake Disbursed.

This site is not difficult to access or require more then minimal dirt road driving plus it has ready access to dump/water fill places. It should appeal to LD owners except for the hardcore concrete campers. Sadly, the campsites are dirt.

This is the view from this camping area.

It's a disbursed (free)  camping area directly on a beautiful marsh in Wallowa-Whitman NF. There are trails leading to Phillips Lake and through the marsh areas. The view from the campsite is the marsh, then a stand of mixed conifers, then the mountains of the Elkhorn Ridge.

The nearby Union Creek campground has drinking water and a dump station, for a fee, as well as FHU sites.  Baker City is convenient for shopping, restaurants, and such. The Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage Area is about 15 minutes away.

Directions: About 15 miles SW of Baker, OR on OR 7 two miles, or so, past the entry road to the FS campground called Union Creek. Turn south on Hudspeth Lane for perhaps a 1/3 mile. On your left you will see a good quality dirt road leading to a large clearing on a marsh. Room for 5, or so, rigs. 44.68769 -118.09142 There are other disbursed areas nearby that are readily visible from Hudspeth Lane.

Ed Daniels, 2012