Douglas Creek

I was tent camping out of a Toyota Tacoma 4wd. I came in from the North off Highway 2, down H Rd.. Water over the primitive road stopped me from going further than 1.5 miles from the entrance where the BLM signage is.
Think twice about taking any large rigs into the canyon (I can't stress this enough). A car or truck with decent clearance will get you to a few campsites.
The positives.... beautiful scenery, plenty of hiking, nature watching, just awesome geology and in late April very few people. Some were camping, some riding ATV's, a couple on horseback.

No T mobile cell service in the canyon area. I walked 3 miles up the hills with my dogs for the exercise and scenery. The reward was cell service and a brief moment of contact with the outside world.

I recommend this area if you are a tent , truck or van camper.

The two previous reviewers made their approach from the south. I heeded the advice of one and approached from the north via H Road. My return trip home is along US-2 so that advice was easy enough to heed. From H Road the passage, although gravel, is maintained and pothole free. Be prepared for dust. I am still wiping dust from surfaces both in my RV and my Jeep). I stayed for two nights (5 and 6 September). Although I did the leapfrog routine with my dinghy tow upon emerging, I decided that the canyon was not as steep or that part of the road as long as I thought I remembered meaning I probably could have made my emergence with my Jeep attached.

Once I made it to US-2, I realized the dust was actually smoke and I was eating smoke from fires to the north. I became aware that US-2 to the east was closed so I had to retreat back to the NCW Fairgrounds in Waterville where I stayed for 3 more nights. Although the fairgrounds normally cost $20, I was looked upon as a refugee so I was allowed to stay at no charge.

Access from Waterville area is steep and rough. High center of gravity vehicles would NOT have fun. Once you are down at the bottom of the canyon, the small parking lot is for the hiking area only. You have to continue on down a rough and twisty two track that is filled with spring water up to 2 feet deep in places. On the Palisades entrance, we were denied access one mile from the camping area by what looked like a front end loader bucket-scooped trench in the dry wash creek bed that was filled with 3 feet of water! Property owners around the area are not keen to you attempting to use their access points to get there. Honestly, I believe locals are sick of partiers in their back yard and are trying their best to keep people away.

I enjoyed camping here, since I was in a 4x4 SUV. However, you would not be able to get an RV into Douglas Creek. Right after entering, there is a huge mound of dirt in the road. I can't tell whether it was put there or is just a result of so many ORVs going back there, but I couldn't even get my SUV over it. Fortunately, there was a flat camping spot right before the mound, but even that required a climb up a pretty steep hill.

All of the land along the road (Slack Canyon Road) up to Douglas Creek is private property, and there isn't a good turnaround anywhere near Douglas Creek. I wouldn't try to drive to this area with an RV.

Edit: It looks like there are two different ways to get into Douglas Creek. I went via Palisades Road (off of Hwy 28) and Slack Canyon Road. The BLM site (actual link: https://www.blm.gov/visit/douglas-creek; the above link does not work) directions say to take H Road, off of Highway 2 east of Waterville. It may be that the access off of H Road is more RV-friendly.

Has anyone else gone in v