Alder Glen Recreation Site
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:50 UTC
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Want to camp? Reserve your spot now! Camping season is generally May-September, with Alder Glen and Elk Bend remaining open through the weekend following General Western Oregon Coast 2nd Season for elk. During months with reduced sunlight, potable water may be turned off. Be prepared to bring your own wash and drinking water. Reserve a site at one of our four campgrounds on recreation.gov or pay when you arrive for non-reserved campsites using the Recreation.gov Mobile App . You must download before you reach the site since there is no cell reception in the drainage. Keep reading
A place to get away from the hustle and bustle of the electronic age. Alder Glen is the Bureau of Land Management’s eastern most campground in the Nestucca River Recreation Area. The campground sits along the Nestucca River National Back Country Byway and newly designated Nestucca Wild and Scenic River . The Byway takes travelers on a slow, leisurely route that winds through Oregon's Coast Range. The Nestucca River is renowned for fishing opportunities and beauty.
Recreation
A small campground offering 11 campsites in the Oregon Coast Range.
Facilities
Each campsite contains a picnic table, fire ring, and paved parking area. Within the campground are two vault toilets and a centralized well providing potable drinking water. The campground also has an accessible trail to access a fishing/viewing platform.
Natural Features
Nestucca Wild and Scenic River Nearby Attractions The Upper Nestucca OHV Area is located off the Nestucca Backcountry Byway, and includes Whipup Flat, Elk Flat, and Grassy Flat. Oregon ATV permits required .
Charges & Cancellations
Standard fees apply and are non-refundable. Visit https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies for more information.
What the agency tells you
Campfires? Current fire information for the Northwest Oregon District closures and restrictions can be found at BLM Fire Closures and Restrictions under the district specific section. Normally, campfires are limited to the steel fire rings or BBQ grills provided within the recreation site. At high to extreme fire danger levels, campfires are most likely prohibited, check above link. No building rock campfire rings.
A fee of $5 for extra vehicles will be collected at the facility through the on site fee station. Cash or check made payable to BLM is accepted. Place fee in the yellow fee envelope. Keep the receipt tab to display on your vehicle dash or campsite post.
The site is remote, there is no cell service or electrical connections. Sites are small and may have limitations.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Caution: Log trucks may be encountered throughout the year. The Byway is open year-round but may become hazardous due to snow and ice.
No ATVs or ORVs allowed within the recreation site.
Quiet hours are from 10:00 pm to 7:00 am.
Pets are allowed but must be leashed (max. 6 feet). Please dispose all pet waste in trash receptacles.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 90 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 9 of 11 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…area. Within the campground are two vault toilets and a centralized well providing potable drinking…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Be prepared to bring your own wash and drinking water. Reserve a site at one of our four campgrounds on…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 13 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Coast
- Fish Viewing Site
- Hunting
- Scenic drives
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 731st darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 4
- Cell signal · Cell signal · BLM says
- None
Full this Saturdayread 16:50 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
4 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:50 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 4 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 8 are free on Tue, Oct 20. read 16:50 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 18
What you actually pay
“A fee of $5 for extra vehicles will be collected at the facility through the on site fee station.” · the Bureau of Land Management’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“Standard fees apply and are non-refundable. Visit https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies for more information.” · this campground’s own terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 7
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 4
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:50 UTC
- Elk Bend Recreation SiteNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 2.3 mi · 1 of 1 site-night open
- Hebo Lake CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 11 mi · 7 of 26 site-nights open
- Sandbeach Campground - Sand Lake Recreation AreaSiuslaw National Forest · 18 mi · 73 of 160 site-nights open
- East Dunes Campground - Sand Lake Recreation AreaSiuslaw National Forest · 18 mi · 71 of 114 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:50 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites
All 11 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Camp | 01 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | $15 |
| Camp | 02 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $15 |
| Camp | 03 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $15 |
| Camp | 04 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $15 |
| Camp | 05 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $15 |
| Camp | 06 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $15 |
| Camp | 07 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $15 |
| Camp | 08 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $15 |
| Camp | 09 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 |
| Camp | 10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 |
| Camp | 11 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Alder Glen CampgroundNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 0.0 mi
Rocky Bend Group CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 2.2 mi
Elk Bend CampgroundNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 2.3 mi
Elk Bend Recreation SiteNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 2.3 mi
Fan Creek Recreation SiteNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 4.6 mi
Fan Creek CampgroundNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 4.6 miFrom Beaver, Oregon: Trip takes is about 17 miles from Beaver, Oregon. Head east on Blaine Rd. At Blaine, take a slight right to continue onto NF-85/Upper Nestucca Rd. The main road will switch from NF-85 and Upper Nestucca River Rd, which finally turns into Nestucca River Rd. Alder Glen Recreation Site will be on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Grand Ronde, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 40°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Alder Glen Recreation Site is in Oregon’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Suzanne Bonamici (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneySuzanne BonamiciU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 1st district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJeff MerkleyU.S. Senator · Oregon
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRon WydenU.S. Senator · Oregon
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Alder Glen Recreation Site, Nw Oregon Tillamook Field Office, Oregon
Dear Suzanne Bonamici, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 1st district. I tried to camp at Alder Glen Recreation Site, Nw Oregon Tillamook Field Office, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 11 sites at Alder Glen Recreation Site are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 4 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Alder Glen Recreation Site keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Alder Glen Recreation Site. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Alder Glen Recreation Site (Nw Oregon Tillamook Field Office, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Alder Glen Recreation Site, Nw Oregon Tillamook Field Office, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Alder Glen Recreation Site, Nw Oregon Tillamook Field Office, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 11 sites at Alder Glen Recreation Site are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 4 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Alder Glen Recreation Site keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Alder Glen Recreation Site. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Alder Glen Recreation Site (Nw Oregon Tillamook Field Office, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Alder Glen Recreation Site, Nw Oregon Tillamook Field Office, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Alder Glen Recreation Site, Nw Oregon Tillamook Field Office, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 11 sites at Alder Glen Recreation Site are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 4 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Alder Glen Recreation Site keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Alder Glen Recreation Site. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Alder Glen Recreation Site (Nw Oregon Tillamook Field Office, Oregon) via campanac.com
How we know this · 4
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…download before you reach the site since there is no cell reception in the drainage. A place to get away from the hustle and…”