Hoover Campground
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- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $28–$56Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3935 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
The campground area offers 35 campsites, 25 single and 10 double sites, that can accommodate trailers up to 30 feet in length. The campsites are laid out in two main loops with sites #1-21 in one and sites #22-35 in the other. There are approximately 20 extra-vehicle parking spaces on the east side of the campground for overflow parking. *Extra vehicle fee. The group camp offers a group site composed of 6 individual campsites and a picnic shelter for groups of up to 70 people. The site can accommodate trailers up to 30 feet in length. All sites are equipped with picnic tables and fire rings. Keep reading
The day use area includes a boat launch, 2 courtesy docks, a separate fishing pier, and 2 lakeside viewing platforms. There are approximately 35 parking spaces for use at the boat ramp area, which have also been used as overflow parking (eg extra vehicle w/boat trailer) for the campground. * Day use parking fee for non campers. Water is available to visitors from faucet risers throughout the site. There are 2 double-flush toilets and 1 single vault toilet located in accessible locations within the site. The group site has two single vaults. Trash receptacles are located in the campground. There is one self-guided nature trail within the sites. Hoover sits among Douglas fir and maple trees and large ferns at an elevation of 1,600 feet. The campground is located in the North Santiam Travel Corridor of Willamette National Forest. The forest covers 1.6 million acres on the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains. This campground has reservable and FCFS campsites. If paying for FCFS sites with a Credit Card, a Remote Offline Kiosk (ROK) is offered at this campground. There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with ROK payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded. This system does not show site availability and you must check that the site is available prior to making payment. Campfires allow until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly. Reservations for this site can be made up to 6 months in advance of reservation date for individual camp sites and 12 months in advance of arrival date for the group camp by reserving online at RECREATION.GOV or by calling 877-444-6777.
Recreation
Sailing, boating, water skiing and fishing are all excellent options for enjoying Detroit Lake. Catfish, rainbow trout and Kokanee salmon are among the most common species found in the lake. A convenient boat ramp is in the campground. Several hiking trails dot the area, including Stahlman Point Trail, which offers beautiful vistas of Detroit Lake and the surrounding area. The Hoover Nature Trail is a short footpath that delights many campers.
Facilities
This campground has 35 standard sites, with 21 reservable, and 1 reservable group site. An interpretive trail and an accessible viewing and fishing platform are part of the campground. Each site has a campfire ring and picnic table. Flush toilets are available at the campground and the group campground has a vault toilet. Access roads are made from compacted rock and dirt. Firewood can be purchased on-site. In the day use area, there is about 1,000 ft. of shoreline. There is a dock for launching, loading and unloading only. There is no mooring allowed. Campfires allow until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly.
Natural Features
Hoover sits among Douglas fir and maple trees and large ferns at an elevation of 1,600 feet. The campground is located in the North Santiam Travel Corridor of Willamette National Forest. The forest covers 1.6 million acres on the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 967-3917.
Nearby Attractions
Detroit Lake provides the major attraction for recreation opportunities at this site. Detroit Lake provides countless water recreation opportunities abound such as boating, waterskiing, kayaking, fishing, etc. Additionally, there are numerous trails in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness and adjacent National Forest that recreational users come to the area to enjoy. Catfish, rainbow trout and Kokanee salmon are among the most common species found in the lake. A convenient boat ramp is in the campground. Several hiking trails dot the area, including Stahlman Point Trail, which offers beautiful vistas of Detroit Lake and the surrounding area. The Hoover Nature Trail is a short footpath that delights many campers.
What the agency tells you
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
If paying for FCFS sites with a Credit Card, a Remote Offline Kiosk (ROK) is offered at this campground. There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with ROK payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded. This system does not show site availability and you must check that the site is available prior to making payment.
Limit one vehicle per single site; an $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for additional vehicles
Everything else this campground posts · 10
You must stay in the campsite that you reserved. Site swapping is not allowed
Day Use Fee Area
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly.
Trailers longer than 30 ft not recommended for this campground.
Check-In 2:00PM
Check-Out 12:00PM
Firewood and ice available for purchase, at this facility, while supplies last.
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.
Click here for more information on Willamette National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 39 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…throughout the site. There are 2 double-flush toilets and 1 single vault toilet located in accessible…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…* Day use parking fee for non campers. Water is available to visitors from faucet risers throughout the site.…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 627th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 35 of the 39 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
“an $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for additional vehicles” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $28–$56 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
40 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 35 mapped sitesAll 40 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 36 of the 40 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. 39 of the 40 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.
| AREA HOOVER GROUP CAMP | GROUP | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 283 ft | 189 ft | 543 ft | $260 | |
| East | 21 | type not stated | 40 ft | 523 ft | 219 ft | $28–$56 | ||
| East | 22 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 64 ft | 602 ft | 266 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 23 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 64 ft | 542 ft | 284 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 24 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 70 ft | 504 ft | 259 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 25 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 66 ft | 512 ft | 197 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 26 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 66 ft | 448 ft | 180 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 27 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 85 ft | 372 ft | 109 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 28 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 68 ft | 329 ft | 70 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 29 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 52 ft | 295 ft | 98 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 30 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 64 ft | 236 ft | 117 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 31 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 52 ft | 254 ft | 122 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 32 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 56 ft | 199 ft | 164 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 33 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 59 ft | 143 ft | 213 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 34 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 98 ft | 172 ft | 192 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | 35 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 59 ft | 85 ft | 269 ft | $28–$56 | |
| East | Camp Host site | host pad | 35 ft | $28–$56 | ||||
| Host Site | CH site | type not stated | 35 ft | 30 amp | $28–$56 | |||
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $28–$56 | ||||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 45 ft | $28–$56 | ||||
| West | 01 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 116 ft | 601 ft | 94 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 02 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 133 ft | 492 ft | 46 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 122 ft | 391 ft | 178 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 04 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 109 ft | 313 ft | 300 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 05 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 71 ft | 242 ft | 404 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 06 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 48 ft | 208 ft | 496 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 07 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 48 ft | 163 ft | 486 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 08 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 41 ft | 129 ft | 461 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 09 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 71 ft | 203 ft | 370 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 10 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 41 ft | 119 ft | 433 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 11 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 58 ft | 146 ft | 382 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 12 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 63 ft | 216 ft | 315 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 13 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 58 ft | 185 ft | 341 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 14 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 44 ft | 264 ft | 288 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 15 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 40 ft | 302 ft | 270 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 16 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 63 ft | 341 ft | 209 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 17 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 40 ft | 339 ft | 257 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 18 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 94 ft | 426 ft | 180 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 19 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 110 ft | 541 ft | 160 ft | $28–$56 | |
| West | 20 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 116 ft | 679 ft | 208 ft | $28–$56 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 40 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Santiam Flats Campground0.4 mi
Cove Creek (OR)Willamette National Forest · 1.7 miPiety Island1.8 mi
Southshore at Detroit Lake - Willamette (OR)2.6 miSouthshore Campground2.6 mi
Humbug CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 4.6 miDrive 2.7 miles east of Detroit, OR on Highway 22. Turn onto Blowout Road/Forest Service Road 10, then go 0.75 miles west to the Hoover Group Site.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Idanha, OR
Typical weather
Typical May night 46°F, day 65°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
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
Hoover Campground is in Oregon’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Janelle Bynum (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →