Blue Pool
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $8–$44Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2724 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
This 24-site campground is conveniently located adjacent to Oregon State Highway 58 in an old growth forest alongside Salt Creek. Fishing and swimming are popular activities. A large picnic area along the creek offers picnic tables, a large grassy area for both passive and active recreation. One-half mile east of the campground on Highway 58 is the McCredie Day Use Area & Hot Springs. The site was formally developed as a hot springs resort historically; currently the hot springs area is unimproved. Caution should be exercised when using the hot springs, water temperature is very high in the pools. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
What the agency tells you
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
- 27 · 5 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Creek
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 24 of the 27 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $8–$44 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
27 sites · the site map
All 27 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 27 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 24 of the 27 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Blue Pool | 001 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 002 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 003 | tent only nonelectric | $22 | ||
| Blue Pool | 004 | tent only nonelectric | $22 | ||
| Blue Pool | 005 | tent only nonelectric | $22 | ||
| Blue Pool | 006 | tent only nonelectric | $22 | ||
| Blue Pool | 007 | tent only nonelectric | $22 | ||
| Blue Pool | 008 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 009 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 010 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 011 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 012 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 013 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 014 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 015 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 016 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 017 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 018 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 019 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 020 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 021 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 022 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Blue Pool | 023 | standard nonelectric | $8–$44 | ||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | type not stated | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 4 | type not stated | |||
| Scan and Pay | Standard | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 2,231 ft | $8–$44 |
25 of 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Packard CreekWillamette National Forest · 6.8 miPackard Creek Group CampsiteWillamette National Forest · 7.2 miPackard Creek CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 7.3 mi
Blair Lake CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 9.2 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Oakridge, 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
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
Blue Pool 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 →