ANTELOPE RESERVOIR, Jordan Valley, OR

Antelope Reservoir,  
Jordan Valley, 0R

RUN BY:   County

LOCATION:  42.908678  -117.236973

Last Visit:  4/26/2018

UTILITIES:  None

COST:  Free

DISCOUNTS:  N/A

OUR RATING (1-5): Category II. Score 4.

NOTES:   A very nice spot just off the highway between Rome and Jordan Valley, OR.  The campground is very level and sites are room. There were only two of there on our visit.

Environment:  Open high prairie

Amenities:  None

Dump:  No

Public Water: No 

Toilets: No

Showers:  No

Laundry:  No

Phone Service: very poor Verizon 

Nearest Propane: My best guess would be Jordan Valley. It isn’t very big, but it’s the biggest town around and it is in the middle of farming country.

Location:  Turn south off US-95 11.8 miles west of Jordan Valley onto Antelope Reservoir Rd.  The reservoir is marked. The coordinates to the campground are above.  Just follow the road. You will see the campground on your left. 

Proximity to shopping: Jordan Valley

Camping Population: Guessing mostly local fishers

Sites:   room and level

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RATING KEY:    category - score 

Categories:  I - established campgrounds where one might spend a vacation or several days

                    II -  boondocking, dry camping where there are no designated sites and no amenities but

                               one might choose to stay for more than a night.

                    III - over-night areas 

You must remember that we are scoring 1 thru 5 according to things which are important to us: the environment, cost, amenities, location, safety, camping population, site, phone service 

* There are people who are not full-timers and van-dwellers by choice. We try hard not to be demeaning or assume that they are bad people but sadly, as you find in the poorer parts of a city, there seems to be more crime. Many call these people van-dwellers. That isn’t really accurate even though they do often live in vans. We know quite a few van-dwellers who have good incomes, are full-timers by choice and prefer a van to other types of vehicles. To try to show some respect for people who have a difficult lot in life, I’m calling them ‘residential campers’.  It is only when you get a high proportion of residential campers in an area that you find an increase in petty theft, etc.