Cove Creek (OR)
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- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $28–$56Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6661 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
The campground area offers 60 campsites, 55 single and 6 double sites, that can accommodate trailers up to 30 feet in length. There are both reservable and FCFS Campsites. The campsites are laid out in two main loops with sites #1-36 in one and sites #37-63 in the other. There is a designated host site (#1) near the entrance. The group camp offers individual campsites and a picnic shelter that can accommodate up to 70 people. 20 vehicles, and trailers up to 30 feet in length. All sites are equipped with picnic tables and fire rings. Keep reading
The day use area includes a boat launch and 2 courtesy docks for loading and unloading only; no mooring is allowed. *Day use parking fee for non campers. There are approximately 35 parking spaces for use at the day use area, which have also been used as overflow parking (eg extra vehicle w/boat trailer) for the campground. *Extra vehicle fee for campers. Campsites are surrounded by towering trees, which create a secluded atmosphere. Visitors enjoy exploring the area and discovering osprey hovering above or nesting in many trees. Water is available to visitors from faucet risers throughout the site. There are 4 double-flush toilets, 2 of which contain coin-operated showers, located throughout the site. Trash receptacles are located in the campground. If paying for FCFS sites with a Credit Card, a Remote Offline Kiosk (ROK) is offered at this campground. There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with ROK payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded. This system does not show site availability and you must check that the site is available prior to making payment. Reservations for this site can be made up to 6 months in advance of arrival date for individual camp sites and 12 months in advance of arrival date for the group camp by reserving online at RECREATION.GOV or by calling 877-444-6777. Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly.
Recreation
Detroit Lake is a popular destination for boating, jet skiing, swimming and fishing. Rainbow trout, Kokanee salmon and catfish are found in the lake. A boat ramp and dock are located next to the campground. The Stahlman Point Trail is a quarter-mile from the campground entrance road. The trail meanders through younger Douglas fir forests and offers some memorable views of Detroit Lake.
Facilities
The campground offers single and double-family campsites, as well as an accessible group site for up to 70 people. Accessible flush toilets, drinking water and coin-operated showers are available at Cove Creek. The group campground comes with a sheltered eating area. In the day use area, there is about 1,000 ft. of shoreline. There is a dock for launching, loading and unloading only. There is no mooring allowed. 2 Iron rangers available for camp fees, extra vehicle fees &/or day use parking fees. Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly.
Natural Features
A mix of wooded and open sites are provided at the campground. Its location is near enough to the Detroit Reservoir to hear passing boats, but a little too far for unobstructed views of the lake. The reservoir covers 3,500 acres and is surrounded by groves of Douglas fir.
Nearby Attractions
Additional hiking trails can be found across the lake, including those that lead to Dome Rock and Needle Rock. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 967-3917.
What the agency tells you
No hookups available
This facility has first-come, first-served sites
Limit 1 vehicle per site; a $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for additional vehicles
Everything else this campground posts · 10
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
You must stay on the site that you book. Site swapping is not allowed.
Campfires are only permitted in designated fire rings. Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly.
If paying for FCFS sites with a Credit Card, a Remote Offline Kiosk (ROK) is offered at this campground. There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with ROK payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded. This system does not show site availability and you must check that the site is available prior to making payment.
$10 Day Use Fee
Firewood is available for purchase, at this facility, while supplies last.
Coin operated showers are available at this facility.
Click here for more information on the Willamette National Forest
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
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 66 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…throughout the site. There are 4 double-flush toilets, 2 of which contain coin-operated showers, located…”
- Showers
- Coin Showers
- “There are 4 double-flush toilets, 2 of which contain coin-operated showers, located throughout the site.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…hovering above or nesting in many trees. Water is available to visitors from faucet risers throughout the site.…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 643rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 61 of the 66 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 · 16
What you actually pay
“a $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for additional vehicles” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $28–$56 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
66 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 61 mapped sitesAll 66 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 64 of the 66 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. 66 of the 66 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA COVE CREEK GROUP | GROUP | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 246 ft | 29 ft | 201 ft | $260 |
| East | 001 | type not stated | 40 ft | 479 ft | 288 ft | $28–$56 | ||
| East | 002 | type not stated | 40 ft | 528 ft | 273 ft | $28–$56 | ||
| East | 003 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 115 ft | 549 ft | 385 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 004 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 58 ft | 610 ft | 355 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 45 ft | 601 ft | 323 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 45 ft | 571 ft | 305 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 58 ft | 531 ft | 253 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 008 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 47 ft | 536 ft | 291 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 009 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 52 ft | 492 ft | 239 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 54 ft | 428 ft | 205 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 012 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 54 ft | 399 ft | 153 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 016 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 45 ft | 312 ft | 57 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 017 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 58 ft | 365 ft | 74 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 018 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 53 ft | 376 ft | 91 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 019 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 53 ft | 335 ft | 128 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 020 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 44 ft | 282 ft | 161 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 021 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 56 ft | 288 ft | 129 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 022 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 57 ft | 244 ft | 166 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 35 ft | 240 ft | 188 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 024 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 35 ft | 210 ft | 209 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 35 ft | 190 ft | 221 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 026 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 35 ft | 177 ft | 233 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 027 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 62 ft | 178 ft | 186 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 028 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 42 ft | 156 ft | 243 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 029 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 42 ft | 133 ft | 247 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 030 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 43 ft | 110 ft | 239 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 031 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 40 ft | 167 ft | 159 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 032 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 43 ft | 114 ft | 215 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 033 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 45 ft | 123 ft | 190 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 034 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 40 ft | 169 ft | 137 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 035 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 64 ft | 127 ft | 167 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 036 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 64 ft | 184 ft | 113 ft | $28–$56 | |
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 32 ft | $28–$56 | ||||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $28–$56 | ||||
| West | 010 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 47 ft | 502 ft | 258 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 013 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 37 ft | 367 ft | 189 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 014 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 37 ft | 349 ft | 152 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 015 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 45 ft | 318 ft | 101 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 037 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 44 ft | 162 ft | 207 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 038 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 38 ft | 222 ft | 186 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 039 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 44 ft | 166 ft | 233 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 040 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 38 ft | 222 ft | 195 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 041 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 40 ft | 222 ft | 167 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 042 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 41 ft | 165 ft | 209 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 043 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 40 ft | 215 ft | 152 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 044 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 41 ft | 165 ft | 197 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 045 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 35 ft | 210 ft | 152 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 046 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 41 ft | 162 ft | 204 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 047 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 35 ft | 211 ft | 161 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 048 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 46 ft | 158 ft | 224 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 049 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 51 ft | 208 ft | 202 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 050 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 51 ft | 160 ft | 251 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 051 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 42 ft | 157 ft | 283 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 052 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 42 ft | 140 ft | 293 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 053 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 73 ft | 211 ft | 223 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 054 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 55 ft | 263 ft | 223 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 055 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 55 ft | 281 ft | 174 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 056 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 56 ft | 330 ft | 119 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 057 | rv nonelectric | 90 ft | 57 ft | 385 ft | 102 ft | $28 | |
| West | 058 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 57 ft | 357 ft | 57 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 059 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 96 ft | 419 ft | 61 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 060 | type not stated | 42 ft | 384 ft | 84 ft | $28–$56 | ||
| West | 061 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 63 ft | 448 ft | 137 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 062 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 63 ft | 402 ft | 153 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 063 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 63 ft | 465 ft | 194 ft | $28–$56 |
25 of 66 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Southshore at Detroit Lake - Willamette (OR)1.0 miSouthshore Campground1.0 mi
Hoover Campground1.7 mi
Santiam Flats Campground2.1 mi
Humbug CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 5.7 miFrom Detroit, Oregon, travel east on State Highway 22 for 2.7 miles to Blowout Road/Forest Service Road 10. From Idanha, Oregon, travel west on State Highway 22 for 0.7 miles to Blowout Road/Forest Service Road 10. Proceed on Blowout Road 3.6 miles to Cove Creek 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 Detroit, OR
Typical weather
Typical May night 46°F, day 65°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
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
Cove Creek (OR) 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 →