East Shore Campground OR
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:33 UTC
- A night
- $7.50–$15Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
East Shore Campground is located approximately 1 mile east of Loon Lake Campground. There are 6 campsites available. The restrooms are vault toilets and water is not provided. There is a small day use area across the street which offers Loon Lake access. East Shore Campers are able to use the day use area at Loon Lake without paying an additional day use fee. Keep reading
Facilities
The campground provides vault toilets, paved roads, vehicle parking. Sites contain picnic tables and fire rings. Site #6 is accessible.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in the Coast Mountain Range in southwestern Oregon. Douglas fir, western hemlock and western red cedar trees forest this beautiful site. Loon Lake covers 260 acres, is 2 miles long and 190' deep.
Nearby Attractions
The Oregon Coast offers a myriad of exciting recreational activities, including hiking, fishing, scenic driving, tidepools and wandering the expansive beaches. Loon Lake is less than an hour from charming Winchester Bay on the Pacific Ocean. The town of Reedsport, Oregon is just 20 miles away, and lies near the confluence of three rivers. The town is just outside the vast Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, where visitors enjoy hiking, paddling, wildlife viewing, camping, picnicking, sand play, beach access and OHV riding. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (541) 756-0100.
What the agency tells you
The campground is open from Memorial Day to November 30th, each year.
There are no electrical, water or sewer hook-ups.
Dogs must be on 6-foot leash at all times.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Poison oak is common in the campground; so look for and avoid the distinctive, glossy leaves with three leaflets.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 6
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 15 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 6
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets · Pit Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 2 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 2 campsite records / PIT TOILETS on 1 of 2 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE PIT TOILETS on 1 of 2 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…The restrooms are vault toilets and water is not provided. There is a small day use area across the street…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach, Coast
- Night sky · 376th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
6 of 6 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:33 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 17
What you actually pay
“Camping $15.00 Single Campsite $7.00 Additional Vehicle (Online reservations may incur additional fees ) Day Use $5.00 Day use NOTICE: You may also pay through the Scan & Pay feature in the Recreation.gov app (please…” · the Bureau of Land Management’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $7.50–$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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:33 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
7 records · the site map
All 7 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 3 of the 7 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. 6 of the 7 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| East Shore | 4 | standard nonelectric | $7.50–$15 | |||
| East Shore | 5 | standard nonelectric | $7.50–$15 | |||
| East Shore | 6 | standard nonelectric | $7.50–$15 | |||
| First Come First Serve with Scan and Pay | Day Use and Picnic Area | day use | under 10 ft | 2,154 ft | $5 | |
| Scan and Pay | Campsite 1 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | Accessible Pit Toilets +3 listed | $7.50–$15 | |
| Scan and Pay | Campsite 2 | standard nonelectric | under 10 ft | 2,154 ft | $7.50–$15 | |
| Scan and Pay | Campsite 3 | standard nonelectric | under 10 ft | 2,154 ft | $7.50–$15 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Loon Lake Recreation Site0.6 mi
Loon Lake CampgroundCoos Bay Umpqua Field Office · 0.8 miFawn Creek CampgroundCoos Bay Umpqua Field Office · 13 miSmith River Falls CampgroundCoos Bay Umpqua Field Office · 14 mi
Vincent Creek CampgroundCoos Bay Umpqua Field Office · 14 mi
Eel Creek CampgroundOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 18 miFrom I-5 in Oregon, take the Drain Exit (#162) south of Cottage Grove. Travel approximately 43 miles west on OR-38 W to Loon Lake Road, 4 miles west of Scottsburg.
From US HWY 101 in Reedsport, travel 13 miles east on OR-38 E to Loon Lake Road.
Watch for Loon Lake Recreation Area sign on OR-38 between mileposts 13 and 14.
Turn south onto Loon Lake Road, then travel approximately 8 miles to the East Shore Campground. The entrance is on the left, a mile after the Loon Lake Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Elkton, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 69°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 37°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
East Shore Campground OR 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 →