Hemlock Lake Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 9 mi
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 2 of the next 30 nights read 15:41 UTC
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 1514 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hemlock Lake Campground sits at a beautiful 28-acre, man-made reservoir surrounded by stands of mixed conifers. This reservoir is 33 feet at its deepest point. It is stocked with trout which provides for good fishing from the banks or by boat. Hike the loop around the lake, sit at the nearby picnic area, or put your boat in at the boat ramp. Keep reading
Recreation
OHV Trail Access Fishing Canoeing/Paddling Boarding/Kayaking Boating - non-motorized Hiking Facilities 14 tent/trailer sites Two vault toilets Each site has a picnic table and fire ring Grey water waste sumps First come, first serve Natural Features Visitors to the Umpqua National Forest are often taken aback by the unique landscapes of southwestern Oregon. High Cascades glaciation, whitewater rapids, and explosive geologic events have shaped the distinctive landscape on the 983,239 acres of forest that provides spectacular scenery as well as an abundance of natural and cultural resources. Verdant stands of hemlock, fir and cedar transition to forests of mixed conifers and hardwoods at lower elevations, while alpine ecosystems dominate high peaks. The translation of the word "Umpqua," meaning "thundering waters," defines the area. The Forest's waterways and diversity create desirable habitat for many species of fish and wildlife, in addition to providing outstanding recreational opportunities to our local communities and visitors.
Nearby Attractions
Yellow Jacket Loop Trail#1522 Yakso Falls Trail#1519 Grotto Falls Trail#1503 Hemlock Falls Trail#1520 Lake in the Woods Campground Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 440-4930.
Charges & Cancellations
This is a Scan and Pay campground . There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with Scan and Pay payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded.
What the agency tells you
Campfires are allowed in developed Forest Service installed metal fire rings when conditions allow. Learn more about current fire information: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/umpqua/fire/info Quiet hours between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Check in: 1:00 p.m.; Check out: 11:00 a.m. Electric or water hook ups are not available. Drinking water is not available, please bring your own. Trash facilities are not available; pack it in, pack it out. Fireworks are prohibited. OHV/ATV use is prohibited in the campground. There is no cell phone coverage Dogs must be on a leash. Maximum length of stay anywhere on the forest is 14 days. Must pay via Scan & Pay onsite with the Recreation.gov app. Campground may not be accessible during the winter months.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 15 of 15 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Night sky · 281st darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Full this Saturdayread 15:41 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
2 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:43 UTC. See them
OpenBookedNot reservable
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Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee $5 per vehicle per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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.
“This is a Scan and Pay campground. There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with Scan and Pay payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 7
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 2
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:43 UTC
- Susan Creek CampgroundRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 12 mi · 5 of 56 site-nights open
- Cavitt Creek Falls Recreation SiteRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 16 mi · 4 of 16 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 15:41 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Extra Vehicle | Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 35 ft | $5 | ||
| Hemlock Lake | 01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 72 ft | 360 ft | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 02 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 72 ft | 430 ft | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 97 ft | 330 ft | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 04 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 98 ft | 374 ft | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 05 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 92 ft | 309 ft | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 06 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 92 ft | 374 ft | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 07 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 99 ft | 380 ft | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 08 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 77 ft | 484 ftHemlock Creek | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 09 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 77 ft | 420 ftHemlock Creek | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 10 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 121 ft | 281 ftHemlock Creek | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 11 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 108 ft | 266 ftHemlock Creek | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 12 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 89 ft | 374 ftHemlock Creek | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 13 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 87 ft | 428 ftHemlock Creek | $10 |
| Hemlock Lake | 14 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 87 ft | 407 ftHemlock Creek | $10 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Hemlock Meadows CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 0.4 mi
Lake In The Woods CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 2.1 mi
Umpqua Off-Season CampgroundsUmpqua National Forest · 7.1 miDeer Flat Group CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 7.2 mi
Deer Flat Group Site (Horseshoe Bend Campground)Umpqua National Forest · 7.9 mi
Horseshoe Bend Campground (OR)Umpqua National Forest · 7.9 miFrom Roseburg, OR, turn onto OR-138 east /northeast Diamond Lake Boulevard. Continue on OR-138 approximately 16 miles until you reach the Little River Road/NF Road 27 on the right side of the highway. Turn right on to Little River Road /NF Road 27. Follow Little River Road for 32 miles to the Hemlock Lake Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Glide, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 26°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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 · a letter you can send
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
Hemlock Lake Campground is in Oregon’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Cliff Bentz (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyCliff BentzU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJeff MerkleyU.S. Senator · Oregon
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRon WydenU.S. Senator · Oregon
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Hemlock Lake Campground, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon
Dear Cliff Bentz, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Hemlock Lake Campground, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 14 of the 15 campsites the agency files at Hemlock Lake Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hemlock Lake Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hemlock Lake Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Hemlock Lake Campground (Umpqua National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Hemlock Lake Campground, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Hemlock Lake Campground, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 14 of the 15 campsites the agency files at Hemlock Lake Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hemlock Lake Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hemlock Lake Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Hemlock Lake Campground (Umpqua National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Hemlock Lake Campground, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Hemlock Lake Campground, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 14 of the 15 campsites the agency files at Hemlock Lake Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hemlock Lake Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hemlock Lake Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Hemlock Lake Campground (Umpqua National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com