Castle Rock Group Campground
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located along Three Rivers, this group campground is ideal for family gatherings and group arrangements. Conveniently located on Highway 22 and surrounded by forest, this campground provides a picturesque setting to enjoy a fun-filled, group camping experience. Keep reading
Recreation
The campground offers an open-space style group camping experience, featuring a recently completed picnic shelter. The river provides opportunities for fishing or summer swimming, and hiking trails are within a few miles of the campground.
Facilities
The group site includes eight picnic tables, picnic shelter, group fire ring, individual rock fire pits, one vault toilet, garbage dumpster, and a parking area. Maximum of 50 visitors per reservation.
Natural Features
Open grassy meadow surrounded by forests, rivers, and coastal mountains, this campground offers a picturesque setting to gather, camp, fish, and play. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (503) 392-5100.
What the agency tells you
No running water.
No electricity.
The site is not staffed and is located behind a locked gate. After you have made a reservation you will receive an email with the combination code to the gate. If you do not receive a code please contact the Hebo Ranger District office at (503) 392-5100 during normal business hours (Monday thru Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm) to obtain the combination for the gate lock. Please have your reservation confirmation number available when you call. Check in time is 2:00 pm, check out time is 11:00 am
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Learn more about the Siuslaw National Forest.
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.
When you check-out of the campground please lock the gate behind you for any stolen or damaged property will receive a citation.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Meadow
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 688th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
Full this Saturdayread 16:49 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
4 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:50 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 19. read 16:49 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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.
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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 4
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:50 UTC
- Hebo Lake CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 3.7 mi · 7 of 26 site-nights open
- Sandbeach Campground - Sand Lake Recreation AreaSiuslaw National Forest · 9.8 mi · 73 of 160 site-nights open
- East Dunes Campground - Sand Lake Recreation AreaSiuslaw National Forest · 10 mi · 71 of 114 site-nights open
- Elk Bend Recreation SiteNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 15 mi · 1 of 1 site-night open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:49 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CASTLE ROCK GROUP CAMPGROUND | Site 1 | group standard area nonelectric | 20 ft | 113 ft | $75 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hebo Lake CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 3.7 mi
South Lake Dispersed AreaSiuslaw National Forest · 4.9 mi
Sandbeach Campground - Sand Lake Recreation AreaSiuslaw National Forest · 9.8 mi
East Dunes Campground - Sand Lake Recreation AreaSiuslaw National Forest · 10 mi
Rocky Bend Group CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 11 mi
Alder Glen Recreation SiteNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 13 miFrom Hebo, OR: Travel south on Highway 22 for 4.2 miles. The campground is 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 Hebo, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 40°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 · 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
Castle Rock Group Campground is in Oregon’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Suzanne Bonamici (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 moneySuzanne BonamiciU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 1st 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 Castle Rock Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon
Dear Suzanne Bonamici, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 1st district. I tried to camp at Castle Rock Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Castle Rock Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Castle Rock Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Castle Rock Group Campground. 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 Castle Rock Group Campground (Siuslaw 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 Castle Rock Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Castle Rock Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Castle Rock Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Castle Rock Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Castle Rock Group Campground. 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 Castle Rock Group Campground (Siuslaw 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 Castle Rock Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Castle Rock Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Castle Rock Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Castle Rock Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Castle Rock Group Campground. 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 Castle Rock Group Campground (Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com