Eagle Creek Overlook Grp Site
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- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
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- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Eagle Creek Overlook Group Site is set on a forested bluff above the Columbia River, providing an ideal setting for family gatherings and group events. Developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s as a place to view construction of the Bonneville Dam, this site features CCC masonry and offers expansive views of the Columbia River and mountains rising from the gorge. Keep reading
Recreation
The Eagle Recreation Area, just a short walk or bike ride away, provides visitors with opportunities for picnicking, hiking and wildlife viewing. Bonneville Dam, about a mile west of the campground, features sturgeon ponds, fish viewing and a visitor's center. Visitors will find display ponds showcasing large rainbow trout and adult white sturgeon measuring more than ten feet long. Interpretive displays offer visitors insight into the history and construction of the dam and its impact on the surrounding areas. The Eagle Creek Trail* is the most popular trail in the Columbia Gorge, offering spectacular viewpoints and waterfalls. The relatively easy trail follows Eagle Creek through the forest and along paths carved into basalt cliffs. Notable stopping points include Punch Bowl Falls, where water spills 100 feet into a blue-green pool set in a large grotto, High Bridge, which traverses the gorge 150 feet above the creek and Tunnel Falls, where the trail passes through a tunnel behind the shower of falling water. This trail is part of a multi-day loop opportunity which continues into the Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness in the Mt. Hood National Forest. *Please check the CRGNSA website (https://www.fs.usda.gov/crgnsa) for the latest trail information.
Facilities
The Eagle Creek Overlook Group Site holds up to 90 people and approximately 40 cars, including trailers. There is a train trestle with under-clearance of 11' 6". The site is equipped with a large covered picnic shelter, picnic tables, campfire rings, drinking water and newly remodeled accessible flush toilets. A path from the site down the bluff provides access to the Columbia River.
Natural Features
Spanning southern Washington and northern Oregon, from the mouths of Sandy River to the Deschutes River, the Columbia River Gorge is unique in both its natural and cultural history, as well as its designation as a National Scenic Area. It is a spectacular river canyon, 80 miles long and up to 4,000 feet deep, cutting the only sea level route through the Cascade Mountain Range.
Nearby Attractions
A portion of the historic Columbia River Highway has been converted to a bike path. Access is just a few minutes from the Overlook and the trail runs 2 miles east to Cascade Locks and 4 miles west to John Yeon State Park. Visitors may want to traverse at least a portion of the spectacular Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), one of the world's premier National Scenic Trails. This trail showcases some of North America's most fantastic scenery, winding its way its way from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington.
What the agency tells you
RV hookups are not available
A valid Northwest Forest Pass or Interagency Recreation pass must be displayed when parked in the Eagle Creek Recreation Area; day passes are available on site at the day use picnic area, digitally via phone or tablet on recreation.gov, or annual passes can be purchased in Cascade Locks.
Noise from I-84 and railroad tracks can be an issue
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Visitors are required to do some minimal cleaning before leaving, including sweeping the shelter, leaving grounds free of litter, placing garbage in proper receptacles, raking areas around campsites, extinguishing all fires, cleaning sinks and toilets if needed, and cleaning table tops
Click here for more information about Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
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.
Vocal and music amplification is prohibited
Maximum number of guests is 90.
On the only road to the Overlook, there is a railroad trestle with a maximum under clearance of 11 feet 6 inches. Depending on height, not all vehicles may be able to get past the trestle.
The entry gate will be locked upon arrival. Please keep an eye out for your reservation confirmation email which will have the combination to the gate lock. Once you are on site, it is your choice to keep the gate open or closed. Be aware that if you leave the gate open, other people may very well drive up and park in the Overlook area.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 1 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 1 of 1 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 1 of 1 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, River, Creek
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Hiking
- Historic Sites
- Information Site
- Scenic drives
- Swimming
- Wilderness access
- Wildlife viewing
- 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.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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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 →
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rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 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. 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.
| AREA EAGLE CREEK OVERLOOK GRP SITE | 01 | group standard area nonelectric | yes | 164 ft | 367 ft | $75 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Eagle Creek CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 0.2 mi
Wahtum Lake CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 8.0 mi
Wyeth Campground8.4 mi
Rainy Lake CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 8.4 miBlack Lake Campground & Day Use AreaMt. Hood National Forest · 8.5 miLost Lake Campground, Resort and Day Use AreaMt. Hood National Forest · 11 miFrom Portland, OR: Travel east on Interstate 84. Take exit #41 "Eagle Creek Recreation Area", just past the tunnel. Make sure you are in the right lane before you enter the tunnel. At end of long off-ramp, turn left at the stop sign. Turn left again at Interstate on-ramp (follow sign to Overlook). Proceed under the freeway and railroad tracks to gate.
From Hood River, OR: Travel west on I-84 and take exit #40 "Bonneville Dam" (exit #41 has no westbound exit). Turn left at the stop sign, proceed under Interstate 84 and then immediately left again onto the eastbound freeway entrance. Travel east on I-84 to ext #41 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 October night 47°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°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
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 Overlook Grp Site 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 1 of 1 campsites here”