Horse Creek Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 29 of the next 30 nights read 14:24 UTC
- A night
- $22–$44Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
This is a horse camp alone the Cape Mountain Trails.
What the agency tells you
No water or power.
1 Vault Toilet.
Horse Trough on trail (may dry out in late summer so bring water for horses).
Everything else this campground posts · 8
No cell phone service.
Site has to be occupied by a horse.
Bring own water
No dump for manuer. Must be cleaned up and put in pill of back of campground or taken with you.
Water not potable; water for horses only.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Weed Free Feed Required. To help reduce the spread of invasive species, weed-free feed is required in all Pacific Northwest National Forests As part of a larger effort to reduce invasive species on national forest lands, weed-free feed is required in the 17 national forests and the Crooked River National Grasslands of the Pacific Northwest. Livestock owners and others are required to use feed that is either commercially processed feed or crop products certified to be free of weed seeds. All hay, cubed hay, straw, mulch, and other such products used or stored on national forest lands must be state certified as weed free. Weed-Free Forage Progam
Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Siuslaw.CentralCoast@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11 · 11 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 9 of 11 sites
Around the campground
- Night sky · 515th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
Something open on 29 of the next 29 bookable nightsread 14:24 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBookedNot reservable
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$44 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
recreation.gov availability, read 14:24 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 records
All 12 records
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 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Horse Creek | 1 | equestrian nonelectric | $22–$44 | |
| Horse Creek | 10 | equestrian nonelectric | 60 ft | $22–$44 |
| Horse Creek | 2 | equestrian nonelectric | 50 ft | $22–$44 |
| Horse Creek | 3 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | $22–$44 |
| Horse Creek | 4 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | $22–$44 |
| Horse Creek | 5 | equestrian nonelectric | 24 ft | $22–$44 |
| Horse Creek | 6 | equestrian nonelectric | $22–$44 | |
| Horse Creek | 7 | equestrian nonelectric | 25 ft | $22–$44 |
| Horse Creek | 8 | equestrian nonelectric | 15 ft | $22–$44 |
| Horse Creek | 9 | equestrian nonelectric | 25 ft | $22–$44 |
| Horse Creek | A | day use | $10 | |
| Horse Creek | B | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | $22–$44 |
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
Alder DuneSiuslaw National Forest · 2.7 mi
Sutton CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 3.7 mi
Rock Creek Oregon Coast (Siuslaw National Forest, OR)Siuslaw National Forest · 5.5 miRock Creek CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 5.5 miNorth Fork Siuslaw CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 7.7 miFrom Florence, Oregon travel north 10.5 miles on Highway 101. Turn east (right) onto Forest Road #58 (Horse Creek Road) and travel 4.7 miles
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Heceta Beach, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Horse Creek 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 →