The US Forest Service has announced that Bear Camp Road is now open for public use.
Road crews from the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest and Umpqua National Forest have removed all snow drifts from Bear Camp Road.
In coordination with the Medford District of the Bureau of Land Management, the mountain road is now open for public use during the summer recreation season.
Next month, the Josephine County Public Works Department will be chip-sealing Bear Camp Road from Burnt Ridge Road east to the junction with the BLM road. Crews plan on working the week of June 24th on chip-sealing operations. There will be traffic delays of up to 20 minutes during the construction work.
This is the final phase of a project funded by the Great American Outdoors Act.
Bear Camp Road is roughly 37 miles long. The east side starts at the county road near Galice and the road ends at the Agness Road/Forest Service Road junction.
The first 12.3 miles of the road is managed by the Medford District BLM. There are gates that close the lower section of the road near the Galice Slide. They will be reopened when the road becomes passable.
