Frissell Crossing Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $18–$36Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
This beautiful and quiet campground lies on the South Fork of the McKenzie River and was originally constructed in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. It is located well away from the main road and some of the sites spread around an open meadow. Keep reading
Recreation
Opportunities abound in this beautiful forest setting for hiking, biking, fishing, swimming and nature viewing. The Three Sisters Wilderness Area, Box Canyon Trail, Mink Lake Basin Trail, Box Canyon Horse Camp, Terwilliger Hot Springs, and Cougar Lake Reservoir are of the many assets to this area.
Facilities
This developed facility has vault toilets, fire rings, picnic tables, garbage collection, and hand-pumped drinking water.
Natural Features
Located on the Willamette National Forest, Frissell Crossing campground resides at 2,600 feet in elevation with creek access. Douglas fir, rhododendrons, and vine maple surround this serene retreat.
Nearby Attractions
Hot springs and trailheads with opportunities for hiking and mountain biking are within 10 miles of the campground.
What the agency tells you
No electric hook-ups at this facility
This facility has first-come, first-served sites
Limit one vehicle per campsite; a fee will be charged for additional vehicles
Everything else this campground posts · 7
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.
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
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
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
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.
Click here for more information on Willamette National Forest This facility is operated by American Land & Leisure. Comment cards are available from staff or at www.AmericanLL.com
Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Willamette.McKenzieRiver@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Facilities This developed facility has vault toilets, fire rings, picnic tables, garbage collection, and…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…garbage collection, and hand-pumped drinking water. Natural Features Located on the Willamette…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Night sky · 309th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$36 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 11 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. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FRISSELL CROSSING | 02 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 174 ft | 102 ft | $18–$36 |
| FRISSELL CROSSING | 07 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 156 ft | 387 ft | $18–$36 |
| FRISSELL CROSSING | 08 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 156 ft | 396 ft | $18–$36 |
| FRISSELL CROSSING | 09 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 115 ft | 291 ft | $18–$36 |
| FRISSELL CROSSING | 10 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 88 ft | 195 ft | $18–$36 |
| FRISSELL CROSSING | 11 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 156 ft | 199 ft | $18–$36 |
| FRISSELL CROSSING CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 381 ft | 129 ft | $18–$36 |
| FRISSELL CROSSING CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 88 ft | 111 ft | $18–$36 |
| FRISSELL CROSSING CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 1264 ft | under 10 ft | $18–$36 |
| FRISSELL CROSSING CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 180 ft | 129 ft | $18–$36 |
| FRISSELL CROSSING CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 185 ft | 214 ft | $18–$36 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Roaring River (Group)Willamette National Forest · 0.8 mi
Box Canyon Guard Station CabinWillamette National Forest · 3.9 mi
Red Diamond CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 5.4 mi
Skookum Creek CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 7.1 mi
Hard Rock CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 8.1 mi
French Pete CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 8.5 miFrom Blue River, OR, travel 4 miles east on Highway 126 to Aufderheide Drive (Forest Service Road 19). Turn right on Aufderheide Drive and continue south about 3/4 mile. Veer right at the Y and continue 20 miles to Frissell Crossing Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Oakridge, OR
Typical weather
Typical May night 41°F, day 65°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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 Julys are colder than the July 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
Frissell Crossing Campground 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 →