U.S. Forest Service · Umpqua National Forest · OR
Coolwater Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 18 mi
Wildfire
Castle fire · 18 mi away · 3,615 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 10, 2026
Wildfire
W Fork Evans Creek fire · 41 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 15, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Season
- May 1 – October 31Open May 1 through October 31
1,420 ftElevation
515 ftWater · Little River
9.2 miSE of Glide, OR
78%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 386th darkest of 770 in OR
Open May 1 through October 31Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Nestled in the Little River valley, Coolwater offers both a contemplative forest setting with easy access to outdoor recreation. Many visitors come to fish, swim, and spend a relaxing weekend entirely at camp. Others come to take advantage of Coolwater's proximity to Grotto Falls and nearby Taft and Lookout mountains. Keep reading
Facilities
7 campsites with picnic tables and fire pits Tent area No drinking water Vault toilet Garbage disposal
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “No drinking water Vault toilet Garbage disposal”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…picnic tables and fire pits Tent area No drinking water Vault toilet Garbage disposal”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
Source: Stated in the agency description
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note
“$10 for campsite $5 for extra vehicle” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 5
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
White Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 0.6 mi
Wolf Creek Group SiteUmpqua National Forest · 3.2 mi
Susan Creek CampgroundRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 4.6 mi
Bogus Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 7.3 mi
Lake In The Woods CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 7.5 mi
Cavitt Creek Falls Recreation SiteRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 7.9 mi
White Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 0.6 miWolf Creek Group SiteUmpqua National Forest · 3.2 miSusan Creek CampgroundRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 4.6 miBogus Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 7.3 miLake In The Woods CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 7.5 miCavitt Creek Falls Recreation SiteRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 7.9 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
This Afternoon81°Sunny
Tonight51°Partly Cloudy
Saturday65°Mostly Sunny1% rain
Saturday Night48°Partly Cloudy
NWS forecast for Glide, OR
Source: National Weather Service, MFR forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 64°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
90°32°20°
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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
Measured at: IDLEYLD PARK 4 NE, OR (USC00354126), 11 miles away and 340 ft lower
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.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 5, 2026
Who answers for this land
Coolwater Campground is in Oregon’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Cliff Bentz (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now. Its own recreation database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.