Delta
1Heads up1 fire 29 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- Sites
- 38All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Known for its access to rafting and drift boat fishing on the McKenzie River, Delta campground, located along a portion of the West Cascades National Scenic Byway, is one of the largest and most scenic campgrounds on the McKenzie District. Access to the river, hiking and mountain biking trails are nearby. Reservations are available May through Mid-September, they can be made at least six months in advance, but must be made at least 4 days prior to your intended arrival date. Keep reading
Recreation
Cougar Reservoir and Terwilliger Hot Springs make this campground a great spot for camping and exploring the area. Visitors can also enjoy a short botanical walk on the Delta Old Growth Nature Trail. A Day Use area and amphitheater are also available at the campground.
Nearby Attractions
There is a non-motorized boat launch within one mile. Within ten miles there is a motorized boat launch and access to flat water. Hiking and biking trails and Terwilliger Hot Springs are also within ten miles.
What the agency tells you
There is no Electricity/Water/Sewer site hook-ups at this campground.
This campground has first-come, first-served sites.
Reservations are taken from May through Mid-September.Sites may be available on a first-come, first-served basis outside of the reservation season.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
No ATV's or ORV's 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.
Firewood may be available
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
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
Be sure to reserve a site that will accommodate your equipment. The site you reserve is your site. You man not move to another site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 38
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Reservoir, River
- Fishing
- Picnicking
- Rafting
- Night sky · 502nd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 31 km away
- Patchy color
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.
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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 · 9
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
38 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sitesAll 38 sites
| DELTA | 01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 101 ft | 148 ft |
| DELTA | 02 - MANAGEMENT SITE | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 101 ft | 232 ft |
| DELTA | 03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 177 ft | 335 ft |
| DELTA | 04 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 181 ft | 402 ft |
| DELTA | 05 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 169 ft | 298 ft |
| DELTA | 06 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 139 ft | 241 ft |
| DELTA | 07 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 97 ft | 241 ft |
| DELTA | 08 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 97 ft | 169 ft |
| DELTA | 09 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 156 ft | 159 ft |
| DELTA | 10 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 140 ft | 184 ft |
| DELTA | 11 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 134 ft | 167 ft |
| DELTA | 12 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 134 ft | 156 ft |
| DELTA | 13 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 166 ft | 252 ft |
| DELTA | 14 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 128 ft | 199 ft |
| DELTA | 15 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 189 ft |
| DELTA | 16 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 178 ft |
| DELTA | 17 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 71 ft | 118 ft |
| DELTA | 18 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 75 ft | 108 ft |
| DELTA | 19 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 105 ft | 167 ft |
| DELTA | 20 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 105 ft | 138 ft |
| DELTA | 21 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 143 ft | 78 ft |
| DELTA | 22 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 57 ft |
| DELTA | 23 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 69 ft | 124 ft |
| DELTA | 24 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 57 ft | 23 ft |
| DELTA | 25 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 57 ft | 77 ft |
| DELTA | 26 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 154 ft | 33 ft |
| DELTA | 27 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 95 ft | 32 ft |
| DELTA | 28 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 25 ft |
| DELTA | 29 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 60 ft | 93 ft |
| DELTA | 30 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 60 ft | 61 ft |
| DELTA | 31 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 118 ft | 114 ft |
| DELTA | 32 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 118 ft | 31 ft |
| DELTA | 33 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 124 ft | 28 ft |
| DELTA | 34 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 173 ft | under 10 ft |
| DELTA | 35 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 206 ft | 13 ft |
| DELTA | 36 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 206 ft | 32 ft |
| DELTA | 37 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 151 ft | 14 ft |
| DELTA | 38 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 151 ft | under 10 ft |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 38 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
MonaWillamette National Forest · 2.8 mi
Lookout Campground and Boat Launch - WillametteWillamette National Forest · 3.1 mi
McKenzie BridgeWillamette National Forest · 5.4 mi
Horse Creek Group CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 6.6 mi
Slide CreekWillamette National Forest · 6.8 mi
Sunnyside CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 7.8 miLocated 51 miles from Eugene OR on HWY 126 to the Cougar Reservoir turn off. Take a right turn (south) on Aufderheide Drive and cross the McKenzie River, turn right on to the campground entrance road Forest Road 400. Follow the road approximately 1 mile to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cascadia, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 68°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 39°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
Delta 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 →