Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR)
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 29 of the next 30 nights read 16:33 UTC
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 7421 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Black Canyon Campground in Oregon rests next to the Middle Fork of the Willamette River. This scenic campground is heavily shaded by towering hemlock, cedar and Douglas fir. Fishing and kayaking are a popular pastimes. Keep reading
Recreation
A 1-mile interpretive nature trail winds through the campground, and Lookout Point Lake is less than a mile away, with opportunities for boating and fishing. A boat ramp is located on the lake. The Willamette National Forest has about 1,700 miles of trails. While many are located in wilderness areas, a number of trails are situated at lower elevations and provide easy, year-round hiking. Black Canyon is within the Winberry Trail Area, with excellent terrain like the Tire Mountain Trail for mountain biking and horseback riding, and the Clover Patch Trail for hiking.
Facilities
The campground offers some riverside sites with pleasant shade, fresh air with cool breezes. There are 75 sites, 19 are reservable. Each site contains a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
The Willamette National Forest stretches 110 miles along the western slope of the Cascade Range in western Oregon. Elevations on the forest range from about 1,500 feet above sea level to 10,495 feet at the snowcapped summit of Mt. Jefferson, Oregon's second highest peak. Wildlife in the region includes black tail deer, Roosevelt elk, bobcats and bald eagles.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors enjoy sightseeing along the West Cascades Scenic Byway. The drive begins at Westfir and stretches 220 miles past waterfalls, ancient forests and numerous rivers, creeks and lakes.
What the agency tells you
No electric hookups at this facility
Large RVs are not recommended
This campground has first-come, first-served sites
Everything else this campground posts · 6
A fee will be charged for extra vehicles
Don't Move Firewood: Please protect Pacific Northwest forests by preventing the spread of invasive species. Firewood can carry insects and diseases that can threaten the health of our western forests. You can make a difference by obtaining and burning your firewood near your camping destination. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from the area after eating
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Willamette.MiddleFork@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 74 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 44 ft
- Paved pads
- 23 of 74
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features The Willamette…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Night sky · 609th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
Full this Saturdayread 16:33 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedNot reservable
Every one of the 3 sites on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 18 are free on Tue, Oct 20. read 16:33 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
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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
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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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $26 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.
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:33 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
74 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 74 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. 74 of the 74 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 001-39 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $26 | ||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 548 ft | 436 ft | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 034 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 035 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 036 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 037 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 038 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 039 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 040 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 69 ft | 159 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $52–$115 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 041 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 69 ft | 156 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 042 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 111 ft | 56 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 043 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 111 ft | 62 ftLookout Point Lake | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 044 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 131 ft | 89 ftLookout Point Lake | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 045-49 | group standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 210 ft | 366 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $52–$115 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 050 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 050-62 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $26 | ||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 051 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 052 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 053 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 054 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 055 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 056 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 057 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 058 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 059 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 060 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 061 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 062 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 063 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 248 ft | 105 ft | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 064 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 104 ft | 435 ft | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 065 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 125 ft | 333 ft | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 066 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 104 ft | 354 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 067 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 113 ft | 432 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 068 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 126 ft | 275 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 069 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 113 ft | 334 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 070 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 99 ft | 425 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 071 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 99 ft | 435 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 072 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 94 ft | 314 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 073 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 94 ft | 296 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $26 |
| AREA BLACK CANYON CAMPGROUND | 074 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 210 ft | 503 ftMiddle Fork Willamette River | $26 |
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 30 ft | $25–$42 | ||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 20 ft | $25–$42 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 74 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Westfir, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR) is in Oregon’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Val Hoyle (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 moneyVal T. HoyleU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 4th 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 Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR), Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Dear Val T. Hoyle, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 4th district. I tried to camp at Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR), Willamette National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 21 of the 74 campsites the agency files at Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR), and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 3 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service 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 Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR) (Willamette National Forest, 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 Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR), Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR), Willamette National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 21 of the 74 campsites the agency files at Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR), and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 3 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service 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 Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR) (Willamette National Forest, 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 Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR), Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR), Willamette National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 21 of the 74 campsites the agency files at Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR), and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 3 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service 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 Black Canyon Campground (Willamette National Forest, OR) (Willamette National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com