Lagoon Campground
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 4137 on recreation.gov
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lagoon Campground is located about 8 miles south of Florence within the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. Most of the campground's sites are surrounded by beautiful coastal shrubbery. Fishing and hiking are popular here, with the Lagoon Trail providing a short but scenic hiking loop around the perimeter of the campground. A beach along the Pacific Ocean is also within walking distance. Keep reading
Recreation
The Lagoon Trail is an accessible loop that provides wetland wildlife viewing on boardwalks. On the south side of the Siltcoos River, the 1.3-mile Waxmyrtle Trail offers outstanding views of the lower Siltcoos estuary and the Pacific Ocean. The Chief Tsiltcoos Trail is also nearby. Anglers can find rainbow trout in the lagoon in winter and spring. In Siltcoos Lake, bass, steelhead, cutthroat trout, yellow perch, and bluegill may take the bait.
Facilities
Amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, picnic tables, trash collection, recycling, and fire rings with grills. Parking aprons are paved. A dump station is located less than 5 miles away at Honeyman State Park.
Natural Features
At an elevation of 100 feet, the campground sits among shore pine and huckleberry along the Siltcoos Lagoon and the Siltcoos River. The campground is part of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, known for its wind-sculpted sand dunes towering to 500 feet above sea level. Wildlife is abundant in the campground and along the Lagoon Trail. Native animal inhabitants include beavers, ducks, herons, and bitterns (a waterfowl relative of the heron). Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 271-6000.
Nearby Attractions
Boating is available at Tahkenitch Lake and Siltcoos Lake. Off-road vehicle riding trails weave along the nearby dunes.
Charges & Cancellations
Campsites that are not occupied after 24 hours of arrival time will be considered as a "no show" and sites will be released for others to reserve. If campers will be arriving after 24 hours of their arrival time, they are encouraged to call the ranger station at 541-271-6000 to let staff know.
What the agency tells you
Guidelines for a safe visit to the Siuslaw National Forest The Siuslaw’s campgrounds, day use areas, and trails continue to be open for public enjoyment. While you are visiting the Forest, please adhere to the following guidelines. These guidelines will help ensure a safe and healthy visit for you and your family, our employees and volunteers, and other visitors: Please keep in mind that restrooms are generally cleaned and disinfected at least once daily at the more popular campgrounds and day use sites, and once to three times a week at other sites. Be prepared to provide your own soap, sanitizer, or disinfectant. If no trash receptacle is provided, please protect your public lands by packing out your waste and trash.
Forest Service-operated campsites on the Siuslaw National Forest are currently available by online reservation only. Visitors can make reservations online through this website (preferred), or via phone by calling the recreation.gov phone line at 877-444-6777. If you call this number, please be prepared for longer-than-usual wait times. Please note that the Siuslaw National Forest does not have any control over the recreation.gov phone line, so we ask you to please prepare by making reservations well in advance.
No RV hookups available
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Vehicles must stay within the striped paved areas
Sites must occupied within first 24 hours of arrival time. Otherwise unoccupied sites will be considered a "no-show" and will be released.
For more information on Siuslaw National Forest, click here
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.
2 vehicle max per campsite
No OHV riding within the campground
This campground is located in close proximity to multiple lakes and wetlands. Due to this, there can be an abundance of mosquitoes between the months of April and August. Please be prepared for this.
There is a 14-day in 30 rolling days camping limit on the Siuslaw National Forest. The 14 days does not have to be consecutive. The 14-day limit covers the entire Siuslaw National Forest and not just this campground as shown in the Rules Section. This means you cannot go to other campgrounds on the Siuslaw National Forest after reaching the 14-day limit.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 41
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 85 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…the bait. Facilities Amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, picnic tables, trash collection,…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, picnic tables, trash collection, recycling, and…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach, Coast
- Berry Picking
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 523rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
24 of 50 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:41 UTC
recreation.gov lists 37 of the 41 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 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.
“Campsites that are not occupied after 24 hours of arrival time will be considered as a "no show" and sites will be released for others to reserve. If campers will be arriving after 24 hours of their arrival time, they are encouraged to call the ranger station at 541-271-6000 to let staff know.” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:41 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
41 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 37 mapped sitesAll 41 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 41 of the 41 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. 37 of the 41 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 001 | type not stated | 275 ftSiltcoos River | 1,643 ft | |||
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 002 | type not stated | 44 ft | 171 ft | 1,760 ft | ||
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 003 | type not stated | 276 ft | 1,685 ft | |||
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 004 | type not stated | 292 ft | 1,696 ft | |||
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 112 ft | 284 ft | 1,810 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 67 ft | 341 ft | 1,739 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 67 ft | 327 ft | 1,751 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 100 ft | 267 ft | 1,746 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 37 ft | 195 ft | 1,760 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 37 ft | 196 ft | 1,785 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 45 ft | 194 ft | 1,814 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 53 ft | 225 ft | 1,866 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 45 ft | 190 ft | 1,845 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 64 ft | 182 ft | 1,908 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 45 ft | 98 ft | 1,989 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 45 ft | 62 ft | 2,022 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 57 ft | 31 ft | 2,063 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 74 ft | 51 ft | 2,099 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 50 ft | 65 ft | 2,111 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | under 10 ft | 2,196 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 60 ft | under 10 ft | 2,197 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 42 ft | 39 ft | 2,168 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 50 ft | 115 ft | 2,067 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 69 ft | 216 ft | 2,005 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 77 ft | 186 ft | 1,990 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 69 ft | 277 ft | 1,936 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 71 ft | 284 ft | 1,897 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 42 ft | 60 ft | 2,163 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 57 ft | 38 ft | 2,196 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 79 ft | 69 ft | 2,168 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 86 ft | 164 ft | 2,065 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 79 ft | 79 ft | 2,148 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 034 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 65 ft | 73 ft | 2,103 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 035 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 65 ft | 69 ft | 2,061 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 036 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 40 ft | 164 ft | 2,003 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 037 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 40 ft | 173 ft | 1,966 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 038 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 79 ft | 88 ft | 1,988 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 039 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 82 ft | 142 ft | 1,898 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 040 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 82 ft | 191 ft | 1,816 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 13A | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 53 ft | 172 ft | 1,915 ft | $22 |
| AREA LAGOON CAMPGROUND | 13B | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 59 ft | 120 ft | 1,974 ft | $22 |
25 of 41 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
DriftwoodOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 0.3 mi
Waxmyrtle CampgroundOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 0.3 mi
Siltcoos Sand CampingOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 0.4 mi
Tyee Campground - Oregon DunesOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 1.1 mi
Carter LakeOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 1.6 mi
South Jetty Sand CampingOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 5.3 miFrom Florence, Oregon, drive south for about seven miles on Highway 101 to the Siltcoos Beach Access Road. Turn right onto the Siltcoos Beach Access Road and proceed for 1 mile to the Lagoon Campground entrance, which will be on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Dunes City, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February 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 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
Lagoon 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 →