Eagle Creek Campground
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- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 17All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Eagle Creek campground is located above Interstate 84 among tall trees. It was the first developed campground in the Forest Service system. Campsites are well-spaced creating a feeling of privacy. It is, however, located on the bluff above Interstate 84 and railroad tracks so it can be noisy. Keep reading
Recreation
This campground is part of the Eagle Creek Recreation Area featuring the classic and popular Eagle Creek trail and access to several other hiking and road biking trails. There are outstanding day hike opportunities with views and wildflowers as well as access to the Mt. Hood National Forest and Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness with extended overnight trips. Boating, river activities, interpretive centers, fish hatcheries, bird watching and picnicking are in this area.
Facilities
There are 16 campsites available, each with a paved parking apron and most are fully accessible. There is a central restroom, and faucets for drinking water are scattered throughout the campground. A full-time host is on site.
Natural Features
Located in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Eagle Creek campground is situated in a classic Douglas fir and maple forest with osprey nesting overhead. Salmon fishing is popular on the nearby Columbia River.
Nearby Attractions
See huge sturgeon and other fish at the underwater viewing area at Bonneville dam and hatchery or take a self-guided tour of the onsite Cascade fish hatchery. Cascade Locks Museum and Sternwheeler are five minutes away to the east. The iconic Multnomah Falls and Columbia River Gorge Historic Highway are a short drive to the west. World-class kite boarding and board sailing are in Hood River, Oregon, about 20 minutes east.
What the agency tells you
NOISE ALERT: Eagle Creek campground is in a beautiful setting with widely spaced, private sites. It is, however, located on the bluff above Interstate 84 and railroad tracks so it can be noisy.
There are no RV hookups or waste dumps on site.
A $5 fee for each additional vehicle beyond the first vehicle is charged on site
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Designated first-come, first-served sites are no longer available. However, "walk-up" sites may be available depending on reservation status. Sites will be posted as "open until..." if there are no reservations.
There is firewood available for sale in Cascade Locks or Hood River. There is also free firewood available near the host site while supplies last. Many pieces still need to be split.
Toilet facility is new with vault toilets (not flush)
There is a 20' trailer limit. The road to the campground has a tight switchbacks which larger vehicles may not be able to get beyond.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 17
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 34 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 6
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 16 of 17 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 8 of 17 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…is a central restroom, and faucets for drinking water are scattered throughout the campground. A…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Amphitheater
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Environmental Education
- Evening Programs
- Fish Hatchery
- Fish Viewing Site
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Ranger programs
- Picnicking
- Scenic drives
- Night sky · 761st darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 4
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- Yes
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 · 14
What you actually pay
“A $5 fee for each additional vehicle beyond the first vehicle is charged on site” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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
17 sites
All 17 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. 17 of the 17 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | $15 |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 | |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 | |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | $15 | |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | $15 |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | $15 |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 | |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 | |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 | |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | $15 |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 | |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 | |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 | |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 | |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $15 | |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 16 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | $15 |
| EAGLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 17 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | $15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Eagle Creek Overlook Grp SiteMt. Hood National Forest · 0.2 mi
Wahtum Lake CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 7.8 mi
Wyeth Campground8.1 mi
Rainy Lake CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 8.1 miBlack Lake Campground & Day Use AreaMt. Hood National Forest · 8.3 miLost Lake Campground, Resort and Day Use AreaMt. Hood National Forest · 11 miFrom Portland, OR: Travel east on Interstate 84 to exit #41 "Eagle Creek Recreation Area" which is just past the interstate tunnel...make sure you are in the right lane before entering the tunnel. Take a right at the end of the off ramp and follow the signs to Eagle Creek Campground. Follow the wooden fence south of the hatchery and head up the road. From Hood River, OR: Travel west on I-84 to exit 40 "Bonneville Dam". Turn left under I-84 and immediately left to the on ramp back to I-84 east and follow the directions above.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for North Bonneville, WA
Typical weather
Typical May night 48°F, day 67°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Eagle Creek Campground is in Oregon’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Maxine Dexter (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“the agency's own site records list "CELL PHONE SERVICE" on 14 of 17 campsites here”