Bluebill Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 1918 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bluebill Campground is located in the Horsfall Area, which is known for its excellent off-road vehicle trails. The campground is conveniently located near the Wild Mare Horse Trail, Bluebill Lake, and the Pacific Ocean beaches. With such an ideal location for recreation, it's no wonder families love this site. Keep reading
Recreation
Bluebill Lake is an excellent location for fishing. The campground provides easy access to the Bluebill Trail, which is a 1.2-mile loop around the lake. Off-road vehicle enthusiasts flock to the campground to cruise the surrounding dunes. Other parts of the nearby dunes are designated for hiking and horseback riding only.
Facilities
Bluebill is equipped with drinking water, vault toilets, campfire pits, fire rings, and dumpsters. There are 18 sites available for reservation. There is currently no camp host at this site. If there are any questions please contact the office at 541-271-6000 or Rec.gov.
Natural Features
Bluebill Campground lies just northwest of Bluebill Lake and less than 1 mile from the Pacific Coast. The campground is within the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, which is known for its wind-sculpted sand dunes towering up to 500 feet above sea level.
Nearby Attractions
Scenic waterways can be found in every direction: Head south to Coos Bay, west to the Pacific, and northeast to Horsfall Lake. There are two off-highway vehicle staging areas along Horsfall Beach Road. The nearby Wild Mare Trail offers an excellent location for horseback riding. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 271-6000.
Charges & Cancellations
Campsites that are not occupied after 24 hours of arrival time will be considered as a "no show" and sites will be released for others to reserve. If campers will be arriving after 24 hours of their arrival time, they are encouraged to call the ranger station at 541-271-6000 to let staff know.
What the agency tells you
Guidelines for a safe visit to the Siuslaw National Forest The Siuslaw’s campgrounds, day use areas, and trails continue to be open for public enjoyment. While you are visiting the Forest, please adhere to the following guidelines. These guidelines will help ensure a safe and healthy visit for you and your family, our employees and volunteers, and other visitors: Please keep in mind that restrooms are generally cleaned and disinfected at least once daily at the more popular campgrounds and day use sites, and once to three times a week at other sites. Be prepared to provide your own soap, sanitizer, or disinfectant. If no trash receptacle is provided, please protect your public lands by packing out your waste and trash.
Forest Service-operated campsites on the Siuslaw National Forest are currently available by online reservation only. Visitors can make reservations online through this website (preferred), or via phone by calling the recreation.gov phone line at 877-444-6777. If you call this number, please be prepared for longer-than-usual wait times. Please note that the Siuslaw National Forest does not have any control over the recreation.gov phone line, so we ask you to please prepare by making reservations well in advance.
Sites must occupied within first 24 hours of arrival time. Otherwise unoccupied sites will be considered a "no-show" and will be released.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
No off-road vehicle use allowed in campground
Limit 2 vehicles per site; no parking available for extra vehicles
For more information on Siuslaw National Forest, click here
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.
This campground is located in close proximity to multiple lakes and wetlands. Due to this, there can be an abundance of mosquitoes between the months of April and August. Please be prepared for this.
There is a 14-day in 30 rolling days camping limit on the Siuslaw National Forest. The 14 days does not have to be consecutive. The 14-day limit covers the entire Siuslaw National Forest and not just this campground as shown in the Rules Section. This means you cannot go to other campgrounds on the Siuslaw National Forest after reaching the 14-day limit.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 19
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 85 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…is equipped with drinking water, vault toilets, campfire pits, fire rings, and dumpsters. There…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Facilities Bluebill is equipped with drinking water, vault toilets, campfire pits, fire rings, and…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach, Coast
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 742nd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 18 of the 19 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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 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.
“Campsites that are not occupied after 24 hours of arrival time will be considered as a "no show" and sites will be released for others to reserve. If campers will be arriving after 24 hours of their arrival time, they are encouraged to call the ranger station at 541-271-6000 to let staff know.” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 6
rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 18 mapped sitesAll 19 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 19 of the 19 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. 18 of the 19 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 109 ft | 455 ft | 341 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 109 ft | 347 ft | 233 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 31 ft | 253 ft | 177 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 31 ft | 236 ft | 179 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 27 ft | 286 ft | 219 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 27 ft | 278 ft | 227 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 64 ft | 231 ft | 238 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 60 ft | 207 ft | 266 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 60 ft | 148 ft | 242 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 84 ft | 73 ft | 183 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 47 ft | 99 ft | 63 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 47 ft | 137 ft | 89 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 44 ft | 194 ft | 75 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 44 ft | 173 ft | 36 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 015 | type not stated | 230 ft | 91 ft | |||
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 77 ft | 308 ft | 168 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 77 ft | 386 ft | 246 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 36 ft | 464 ft | 327 ft | $22 |
| AREA BLUEBILL CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 36 ft | 437 ft | 302 ft | $22 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Wild Mare Horse CampSiuslaw National Forest · 0.2 mi
Horsfall BeachOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 0.7 mi
HorsfallSiuslaw National Forest · 1.0 mi
Horsfall Sand CampingSiuslaw National Forest · 1.0 mi
Hauser Sand CampingOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 3.2 mi
Spinreel Sand CampingSiuslaw National Forest · 8.7 miFrom Reedsport, Oregon, follow Highway 101 south for about 22 miles to the Horsfall Dunes and Beach road sign. Turn right onto Trans Pacific Lane and proceed for 1.1 miles to the intersection with Horsfall Beach Road. Turn right onto Horsfall Beach Road and proceed for 1.7 miles. At 1.7 miles, the campground entrance will be on the left.
From North Bend, Oregon, follow Highway 101 north for about 2 miles to the Horsfall Dunes and Beach road sign. Turn left onto Trans Pacific Lane and proceed for 1.1 miles to the intersection with Horsfall Beach Road. Turn right onto Horsfall Beach Road and proceed for 1.7 miles. At 1.7 miles, the campground entrance will be on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for North Bend, OR
Typical weather
Typical May night 48°F, day 61°F.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Bluebill Campground 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 →