Canal Creek
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 2All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Canal Creek is a group campground where campers can truly get away from the hustle and bustle of the city and immerse themselves in nature. The facility is comprised of two group campsites, each providing a tranquil, scenic setting. Keep reading
Recreation
Canal Creek Group Site has a large open space that provides room for sports like soccer, Frisbee and football. Campers are encouraged to bring sports equipment, as none is provided. Other activities include fishing and crawfishing, hiking, tubing and swimming. Cutthroat trout inhabit Canal Creek.
Facilities
Canal Creek Group Site is accessed by fording the gentle creek. It has a large open field with a picnic shelter, tables and a campfire circle. The site accommodates up to 100 people and 20 vehicles. RVs are not recommended. Alsea Group Site is bordered by the creek. It is made up of 10 separate campsites surrounding a central dining area with tables and a campfire circle. The site accommodates up to 50 people and 10 vehicles. RVs are welcome. Vault toilets are provided, but no drinking water or electric hookups are available at either site.
Natural Features
Canal Creek flows through the campground, dividing the two sites, which are shaded by Douglas fir and spruce trees. Huckleberry bushes dot the forest floor. Roosevelt elk and bald eagles make their homes in the surrounding area. The campground is part of Siuslaw National Forest, which extends across the lush forests of the coastal mountains to the Oregon Dunes and beaches of the Pacific Ocean. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
Nearby Attractions
Sandy beaches stretch north and south of Waldport, about 20 minutes from the campground. Beautiful Cape Perpetua Scenic Area is another 15 minutes south of Waldport. Mary's Peak is the highest point in Oregon's Coast Range and has been designated a Scenic Botanical Area because of its rich, unique scenery and plants.
What the agency tells you
Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle
No drinking water available; visitors must bring their own supply
To reach the Canal Creek site, visitors must ford gentle Canal Creek with their vehicle. Buses and RVs will not be able to access Canal Creek site
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Please bring garbage bags; this is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility
Please recycle glass, metals, plastics, and burn only paper products
A creek runs through campground and the old footbridge is no longer usable; please exercise caution
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.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Click here for more information on the Siuslaw National Forest
Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Siuslaw.CentralCoast@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 2 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…people and 10 vehicles. RVs are welcome. Vault toilets are provided, but no drinking water or electric…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…welcome. Vault toilets are provided, but no drinking water or electric hookups are available at either site.…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Beach, Coast
- Berry Picking
- Crawfishing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 553rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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
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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
2 sites · the site map
All 2 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 2 of the 2 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. 2 of the 2 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| GRP | Alsea Group | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ftCanal Creek | 48 ft | $210–$300 |
| GRP | Canal Creek Group | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 158 ftCanal Creek | 275 ft | $210–$300 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
West Winds Campground - Sand Lake Recreation Area1.9 mi
BlackberrySiuslaw National Forest · 4.7 mi
River Edge Group CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 6.2 mi
River Edge8.3 mi
TillicumSiuslaw National Forest · 8.4 miFrom Waldport, Oregon, take State Route 34 east 7 miles to the campground sign at Canal Creek Rd../Forest Service Rd. 3462. Turn right onto Canal Creek Rd./FSR 3462 and go 4 miles to another campground sign and turn left into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Waldport, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 35°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
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
Canal Creek 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 →