About Devil's Flat Campground
Enjoy a beautiful drive through the picturesque Cow Creek drainage on your way to one of the most interesting campsites in Umpqua. Located under a bluff and surrounded by a forest of cedar, pine, and madrone, Devil’s Flat is a small campground with three campsites, a bevy of hiking opportunities, and a handful of historic landmarks. On the north side of the campground, you can see the stone ruins of an old water fixture built by the CCC “Fire-Eaters” in the 1930s. On the south side is the old Devil's Flat Guard Station, where you’ll find a Ranger Cabin built in 1915 and a 1920s-era horse barn. On a fir tree near the Ranger Cabin, you can also see the tiki carving that gave Devil’s Flat its name. This good luck sign was carved by Ike French, a Hawaiian man who moved to the Cow Creek Valley region in the 1850s with his brother Sampson French; later, sometime around the 1930s, the tiki was…
- Fees: Campground is in non-fee status. Limited restroom service and trash removal. Please pack out all trash.
- Managed by: USFS - Umpqua National Forest
- Where: 13 mi southeast of Days Creek, OR · 42.81679, -123.02633
Things to do:
Official page for this camp (fees, closures, booking)
Weather by month
Typical daily highs and lows (°F), 1991–2020 NOAA normals. Best months: Jun–Sep (comfortable days, mild nights, little rain). Nights below freezing: None.
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Trails near camp
| Trail | Open to | From camp | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devil's Flat | Horse | at camp | 5.5 mi |
| Cow Creek Falls | Hiking | at camp | 0.2 mi |
| Elk Skull Bluff | Dirt bike | at camp | 0.5 mi |
| Maranatha | Horse, Dirt bike | 0.1 mi | 1.3 mi |
| Applegate Creek | ATV road | 0.3 mi | 7.5 mi |
| Devils Cr | ATV road | 0.3 mi | 2.8 mi |
Straight-line distance from camp, from Forest Service, BLM, state and OpenStreetMap trail data.
Good to know
No signal at camp
From the carriers' FCC coverage maps, which tend to be generous.The Milky Way shows rich detail, horizon to horizon.
Class 2 of 9, from NASA/NOAA night-light data.Dump station: 15.9 mi
Propane: 15.9 mi
Camps nearby
- Devils Flat Guard Station 0 mi
- Campsite · 13 mi NW of Trail 2.2 mi
- Chief Miwaleta campground 7.1 mi
- Threehorn Campground 7.9 mi
- Campsite · 12 mi N of Wimer 8 mi
- Elderberry Flat Campground 11.2 mi