Breitenbush Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 17 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $21–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3128 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Breitenbush Campground is nestled along the banks of its namesake river in the forests of western Oregon. The peaceful flow of the river can be heard throughout the campground, providing a peaceful getaway for campers. The campground lies in the Willamette National Forest, which stretches for 110 miles along the western slopes of the Cascade Range. The varied landscape of high mountains, narrow canyons, cascading streams and wooded slopes offer varied recreational opportunities for visitors. Keep reading
The Breitenbush River is a tributary of the North Santiam River, and its clean waters flow from snow melt in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. A variety of plants and foliage separate the spacious campsites and provide privacy from other sites. Located nearly 10 miles east of Detroit, Oregon, at an elevation of 2,100 feet. Visitors can reach the site from Detroit by traveling north on state highway OR-22 before turning right (northeast) onto Breitenbush Road. After approximately 9.5 miles the turnoff for the campground will be on the right (south) side of the road. There are 29 campsites, offering both reservable and first come first serve sites, that can accommodate vehicles and trailers up to 24 feet in length. Each site has a picnic table and firepit. There are four vault toilets. Trash receptacles are located in the campground. Scan and Pay might be offered at this campground; It is recommended that you pay by cash or check for FCFS campsites. There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with FCFS payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded. Please download the Rec.Gov app prior to arriving at the campground as there may be no cellular service or very limited service at the campground. If no Scan & Pay option is available you must pay via cash or check. Campfires are allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Common to have fire bans during summer season, please plan accordingly. Wading and fishing are popular activities in the Breitenbush River, and rainbow trout is the most common catch for anglers. Reservations for this site can be made up to 6 months in advance of arrival date by reserving online at RECREATION.GOV or by calling 877-444-6777.
Recreation
Wading and fishing are popular activities in the Breitenbush River, and rainbow trout is the most common catch for anglers. The Willamette National Forest has about 1,700 miles of trail. While many are in wilderness areas, a number of trails are low-elevation, easy-access trails for year-round hiking.
Facilities
This campground has 29 sites, 23 are reservable, and all have picnic tables, grills and easy access to the vault toilets. Most campsites offer sweeping views of the river. No Overflow Parking. No Day Use Parking.
Natural Features
The campground lies in the Willamette National Forest, which stretches for 110 miles along the western slopes of the Cascade Range. The varied landscape of high mountains, narrow canyons, cascading streams and wooded slopes offer varied recreational opportunities for visitors. The Breitenbush River is a tributary of the North Santiam River, and its clean waters flow from snow melt in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. A variety of plants and foliage separate the spacious campsites and provide privacy from other sites. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 967-3917.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby attractions include: The Willamette National Forest has approximately 1,700 miles of trails. While many are in wilderness areas, a number of trails are low-elevation, easy-access trails for year-round hiking. Detroit Lake provides ample opportunity for water recreation like boating, water skiing and kayaking.
What the agency tells you
There are no electric hookups available
Off-road vehicles are not permitted
First-come, first-served sites may be available
Everything else this campground posts · 11
Limit 1 vehicle per site; a $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for all additional vehicles
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
You must stay in the campsite that you reserved. Site swapping is not allowed
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.
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
The water spigots, at this facility, are not working. Please be sure to bring your own water.
Campfires are allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Common to have fire bans during summer season, please plan accordingly.
Check-In 2:00PM
Check-Out 12:00PM
No Overflow Parking. No Day Use Parking.
Tight curve - combined vehicle length restricted to 35 ft.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 31
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 51 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 9 of 31 campsite records
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 535th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- Spotty
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 28 of the 31 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 · 15
What you actually pay
“a $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for all additional vehicles” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $21–$40 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
31 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 28 mapped sitesAll 31 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 30 of the 31 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. 31 of the 31 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| East | 16 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 106 ft | 135 ft | 403 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 17 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 53 ft | 163 ft | 244 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 18 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 53 ft | 125 ft | 217 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 19 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 56 ft | 175 ft | 113 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 20 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 56 ft | 122 ft | 145 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 21 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 81 ft | 135 ft | 71 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 22 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 67 ft | 130 ftShort Creek | 94 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 23 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 67 ft | 154 ftShort Creek | 107 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 24 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 85 ftShort Creek | 173 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 25 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 102 ft | 51 ftShort Creek | 253 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 26 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 123 ft | 155 ftShort Creek | 246 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 27 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 134 ft | 270 ftShort Creek | 144 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 28 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 112 ft | 351 ft | 156 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 29 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 112 ft | 376 ft | 229 ft | $21–$40 |
| East | 30 MANAGEMENT | type not stated | 40 ft | 349 ft | 327 ft | $21 | |
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | 24 ft | $21 | |||
| West | 01 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 63 ft | 210 ft | 599 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 02 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 63 ft | 199 ft | 661 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 03 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 48 ft | 218 ft | 863 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 04 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 56 ft | 215 ft | 923 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 05 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 196 ft | 1,017 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 06 | type not stated | 20 ft | 131 ft | 1,287 ft | $21 | |
| West | 07 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 99 ft | 67 ft | 1,214 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 08 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 99 ft | 34 ft | 1,118 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 09 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 69 ft | 126 ft | 1,003 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 10 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 56 ft | 163 ft | 943 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 11 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 48 ft | 170 ft | 855 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 12 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 62 ft | 163 ft | 796 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 13 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 72 ft | 151 ft | 722 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 14 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 164 ft | 580 ft | $21–$40 |
| West | 15 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 106 ft | 142 ft | 450 ft | $21–$40 |
25 of 31 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Cleator BendWillamette National Forest · 0.5 mi
Fox Creek Group CampWillamette National Forest · 2.9 mi
Humbug CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 4.3 mi
Gold Butte LookoutWillamette National Forest · 4.8 mi
Whispering Falls CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 6.5 miElk Lake (OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 7.3 miFrom Detroit, Oregon, at the intersection of State Route 22 and Forest Service Road (FSR) 46, take FSR 46 north and continue 9.3 miles to the campground 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 Idanha, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
Breitenbush Campground is in Oregon’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Janelle Bynum (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…app prior to arriving at the campground as there may be no cellular service or very limited service at the campground. If no Scan & Pay…”