About this place
Billy Fields Campground is a good starting point if you want to hunt, fish, or look for wild horses.
Fields Peak Trail is within 3 miles of the campground.
There is a 6 horse tie-stall with a manger. Water for the horses comes from Billy Fields Creek alongside.
The campground is rustic. There is a vault toilet and no drinking water, wooden picnic tables and metal fire rings.
The facts
- Cost
- Free to camp
- Roads around it
- Some need high clearance
- Drinking water
- No, bring your own
- Toilet
- Yes
- Type
- Specific campsite
- Managed by
- Malheur National Forest
The roads around this place are not maintained for a regular car. That comes from the US Forest Service, who grade every road by the kind of vehicle it is looked after for. Those records cover the roads nearby. They do not cover the last stretch in to the campsite, and nobody has checked that part. Treat this as a warning. We are not promising what you will find when you get there. If you have driven it, tell us what it was like and we will say so here.
Rules and restrictions
Do not graze horses on the ground beside the water. That strip along a creek or a river is called riparian land and it is easily wrecked.
Any hay you bring has to be certified weed free. That means somebody has checked it for weed seeds, so you are not planting something new here without meaning to. Whatever the horses do not eat goes home with you.
Getting there
Coordinates 44.349494, -119.302400
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What is near here
There is another spot of ours within reach, and some better-known places further out.
- John Day Fossil Beds National Monument Directions
- Strawberry Mountain Directions
- Sutton Mountain Back Country Byway Directions
Every distance on this page is the driving distance. A short distance can still take a long time. The road may be closed for the season, covered in snow, or washed out. Many of these roads are dirt. Plan your route before you leave home. Out here there is often no phone signal to look it up on the way.
Nearest town and supplies
- Mount Vernon, OR Directions
- John Day, OR Directions
John Day is big enough that you’d normally expect fuel and somewhere to buy food. Nobody from here has been to check, so don’t count on it if you’re running low.
Have you been here?
Fees and access change, and the records do not always keep up. If you have been, tell us what you found.
Thank you, that is recorded. It helps the next person.
Add road notes for this site
The thing we cannot get from any government record is what the drive in is actually like. If you have done it, this is the most useful thing you can leave behind. We read everything before it appears, and we print a first name with it if you give one.
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Where this information comes from
The description on this page is ours. The facts in it, and the fee and facility details below it, come from the Forest Service’s own records, read in August 2026; a second independent record also says there is no fee.