Lone Pine Group Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 27 of the next 30 nights read 16:14 UTC
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 12All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
THIS LOCATION IS AVAILABLE FOR INDIVIDUAL SITE RENTALS FOR THE SUMMER AND FALL OF THE 2026 SEASON. Reservations must be made 5-days prior to arrival Lone Pine Group Campground is adjacent to Rock Creek, a tributary of the North Umpqua River. Lone Pine is situated at the site of the old Rock Creek sawmill that once operated in the 1930s thru the 1950s. The campground is a short drive from the Umpqua National Forest, which boasts incredible glacier-cut mountain slopes across 984,602 acres of forest. Keep reading
The name, Umpqua, is a surviving term of the Native American Umpqua language, and is believed to mean "thundering waters," "across the waters" or "satisfied." Recreation Hiking picnicking and relaxing are the primary activities at the campground. In summer, swimming in the cool creek is a refreshing treat. In spring and fall, salmon and steelheads come upriver to spawn. To protect valuable native runs of salmon and steelhead, Rock Creek is closed to anglers. Instead, head to the North Umpqua River for abundant fishing opportunities. A drive along the Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway yields gorgeous views of mountain peaksforested canyons and alpine lakes.
Facilities
The campground is built on a loop with eleven separate sites. The volleyball court and horseshoe pits are currently under construction. Use of a pavilion and ballfield is allowed for campers and day-use recreationists parking in the overflow area across Rock Creek Road.
Natural Features
Lone Pine is on the western edge of the Cascade Mountains, set along Rock Creek, which eventually flows into the North Umpqua River. Lone Pine Campground was heavily affected by the Archie Creek Fire in 2020, creating significant differences from its previous condition.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors can get their adventure-fix with whitewater rafting/kayaking and angling in the North Umpqua River just five miles away. A trip to nearby Crater Lake National Park is another "can't miss" destination or visiting several of the waterfalls in the surrounding area.
What the agency tells you
Reservations must be made 5 days prior to arrival.
We do not allow first-come-first-serve camping. No transactions on-site.
Currently no drinking water available.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
There are no hook-ups available at campsites.
Check-in: 1:00 p.m. Check-out 11:00 a.m.
Day-Use area is free of charge.
Pets must be kept on six foot or shorter leash.
No firewood available on site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 100 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Hunting
- Water sports
- Night sky · 500th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
Full this Saturdayread 16:14 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
3 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:46 UTC. See them
OpenBookedNot on the booking system
Every one of the 4 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 11 are free on Wed, Oct 21. read 16:14 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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.
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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 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.
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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 3
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:46 UTC
- Susan Creek CampgroundRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 6.6 mi · 5 of 56 site-nights open
- Cavitt Creek Falls Recreation SiteRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 13 mi · 4 of 16 site-nights open
- Tyee Campground - Umpqua RiverRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 28 mi · 10 of 29 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:14 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
13 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 13 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 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Lone Pine Campground (Reservation) | C001 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 116 ft | 530 ft | $10 |
| Lone Pine Campground (Reservation) | C002 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 60 ft | 485 ft | $10 |
| Lone Pine Campground (Reservation) | C003 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 48 ft | 580 ft | $10 |
| Lone Pine Campground (Reservation) | C004 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 60 ft | 502 ft | $10 |
| Lone Pine Campground (Reservation) | C005 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 48 ft | 581 ft | $10 |
| Lone Pine Campground (Reservation) | C006 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 75 ft | 642 ft | $10 |
| Lone Pine Campground (Reservation) | C007 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 67 ft | 636 ft | $10 |
| Lone Pine Campground (Reservation) | C008 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 32 ft | 701 ft | $10 |
| Lone Pine Campground (Reservation) | C009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 96 ft | 663 ft | $10 |
| Lone Pine Campground (Reservation) | C010 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 32 ft | 677 ft | $10 |
| Lone Pine Campground (Reservation) | C011 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 135 ft | 538 ft | $10 |
| Lone Pine Group Campground (Reservation) | Group Area | group picnic area | 329 ft | |||
| Lone Pine Group Campground (Reservation) | Pavilion | day use | 42 ft | 441 ft |
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.
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 · the phone number
Where it is
Millpond Recreation SiteRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 0.2 mi
Susan Creek CampgroundRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 6.6 mi
Bogus Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 8.4 mi
Scaredman Recreation SiteRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 9.3 mi
Wolf Creek Group SiteUmpqua National Forest · 10 miCoolwater CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 11 miFrom Roseburg, travel east on Highway 138 for 22 miles. Turn left (north) on Rock Creek Road and proceed 5 and .25 miles. Campground is on the left.
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 41°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December 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
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Lone Pine Group 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 Lone Pine Group Campground, Roseburg District Swiftwater Field Office, Oregon
Dear Cliff Bentz, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Lone Pine Group Campground, Roseburg District Swiftwater Field Office, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 12 sites at Lone Pine Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 4 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Lone Pine Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Lone Pine Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Lone Pine Group Campground (Roseburg District Swiftwater Field Office, 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 Lone Pine Group Campground, Roseburg District Swiftwater Field Office, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Lone Pine Group Campground, Roseburg District Swiftwater Field Office, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 12 sites at Lone Pine Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 4 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Lone Pine Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Lone Pine Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Lone Pine Group Campground (Roseburg District Swiftwater Field Office, 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 Lone Pine Group Campground, Roseburg District Swiftwater Field Office, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Lone Pine Group Campground, Roseburg District Swiftwater Field Office, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 12 sites at Lone Pine Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 4 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Lone Pine Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Lone Pine Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Lone Pine Group Campground (Roseburg District Swiftwater Field Office, Oregon) via campanac.com