Loon Lake Recreation Site
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $18–$36Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 5251 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Bureau of Land Management's Loon Lake Recreation Site is located in the heart of Oregon's Coast Range at an elevation of 392 feet, just 20 miles east-southeast of Reedsport, Oregon. Loon Lake Recreation Site is one of the Coast Range's few recreation areas with a warm, sandy beach. The lake is perfect for swimming, fishing, boating, and other water activities. The site offers a campground and day use area, though visitors should note that there is no cell phone coverage in the area. Loon Lake Recreation Site's operating season is from Memorial Day weekend to September 30th. The Coos Bay District Office in North Bend, OR manages Loon Lake Recreation Site. Please visit the BLM Loon Lake Recreation Site website for more information. Keep reading
Recreation
Loon Lake is a family-oriented recreation site, treasured by locals for generations. The site offers a myriad of recreational opportunities, including camping, boating, kayaking, paddleboarding, fishing, swimming, and waterplay. Visitors can also enjoy relaxing on the warm, sandy beach. Other popular activities at Loon Lake include picnicking, hiking, birding, horseshoe tossing, and barbecuing. Campsites have paved parking pads and ample shade from old growth trees. The day use area boasts picnic tables, barbecue grills, swim area, fishing dock, and boat launch. A short, 1/4 mile trail to a waterfall on Elliott State Forest land begins at the south end of the day use area and takes hikers through a quiet and serene segment of old growth forest.
Facilities
Loon Lake offers 53 campsites that accommodate tents, trucks, trailers, and/or RVs. All campsites contain a fire ring and picnic table. Most sites have a barbecue grill and/or tent pad. Double sites have two picnic tables and larger, or multiple, tent pads. In addition, the site contains flush toilet facilities, vault toilets, children's play area, day use picnic tables and barbecue grills, amphitheater, boat launch, and fishing dock.
Natural Features
Loon Lake Recreation Site is situated in the Coast Mountain Range in southwestern Oregon. Douglas-fir, western hemlock, red alder, and bigleaf maple trees forest this beautiful site and offer an abundance of shade. The forest understory features a host of native plants including rhododendron, salal, salmon berry, thimble berry, vine maple, trailing blackberry, and several fern species. A diverse variety of bird life, from the seldom seen Marbled Murrelet and Spotted Owl, to the ever-present Steller's Jay and Osprey, frequent this area. Signs of larger animals, such as raccoon, bear, elk, deer, and bobcat are evident. Loon Lake is part of the Umpqua River watershed that drains water from the Coast Range to the Pacific Ocean. Formed by a landslide of large sandstone blocks and boulders, Loon Lake is a naturally dammed lake that covers 260 acres, is 2 miles long, and 190' deep. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (541) 756-0100 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
The Oregon Coast Range offers a myriad of exciting recreational activities, including hiking, fishing, scenic driving, tidepooling, expansive beaches, and wildlife viewing. BLM's Dean Creek Elk Viewing Area , also managed by the Coos Bay District Office, is a short drive from Loon Lake and offers visitors the chance to see one of Oregon's largest mammal, Roosevelt Elk, up close. Loon Lake is less than an hour from charming Winchester Bay on the Pacific Ocean. The town of Reedsport is just 20 miles away and lies near the confluence of three rivers, including the scenic Umpqua and Smith rivers. Reedsport is the gateway town to the vast Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, where visitors enjoy hiking, paddling, wildlife viewing, camping, picnicking, sand play, beach access, and OHV riding. Charges & Cancellations
What the agency tells you
Operating Season - Loon Lake Recreation Site is open Memorial Day weekend till September 30th.
Pets - Pets are allowed at Loon Lake Recreation Site, with the exception of the designated swim area, and must be leashed (max. 6 feet) at all times. Please properly dispose of pet waste. Waste bags are available in the day use area. Please ensure pets are monitored and within your vicinity at all times, please stay within the posted day use area for pets.
Day Use Hours - Day Use is open from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. No overnight parking in day use area.
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Campground Limits: Check-in time - Campground check-in is at 12:00 pm. Check-out time - Campground check-out time is at 11:00 am. Length of Stay - Camping stay limit is 14 days in a 28-day period. Site Capacity - Single-capacity sites are limited to six (6) persons and one (1) vehicle. Double-capacity sites are limited to twelve (12) persons and two (2) vehicles. There is a $7 fee charged per extra vehicle, per night. Site Parking - Vehicles must be parked on the paved campsite parking pad causing no resource degradation or encroachment onto the paved access road. Extra vehicles must park in the overflow lot. Quiet Hours - Quiet hours are from 10:00 pm to 7:00 am.
Are campfires allowed? When allowed, all campfires are limited to steel fire rings or barbecue grills provided within the recreation site. Propane is always allowed.
Firewood - Firewood is not available during the season due to staffing and funding limitations.
No Hookups - Loon Lake Recreation Site does not offer RV hookups. No Dump Station - The nearest dump station is located at the US Forest Service's Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area Office in Reedsport, OR. No Shower/Laundry - There are no shower or laundry facilities on site. No Cell Phone Coverage - There is no cell phone coverage on site.
Interagency Pass Discount on Camping - A Senior or Access Interagency Pass provides a camping fee discount on single-capacity campsites only while booking a reservation. You must present the pass and photo ID upon check-in.
When will Loon Lake Recreation Site have potable water? Loon Lake Recreation does have Potable Water throughout the Campground. It is still Recommended to bring personal supply of hand sanitizer and soap. Check the BLM's Loon Lake website for updates: http://www.blm.gov/visit/loon-lake-recreaton-site
Who can I contact with questions regarding my stay or visit? During the Loon Lake Recreation Site operation season (Memorial Day weekend to September 30th) you can call the Loon Lake Recreation Site entrance station 7 days/week from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm (dependent on staffing)
Where else can I access Loon Lake? The BLM's East Shore Day-Use Area is just a mile from Loon Lake Recreation Site and is open year-round, though there is no boat launch. The East Shore Campground (open Memorial Day weekend through November 30th offers six, shady campsites near the lake that are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Access to the lake is available across the road from the campground. Loon Lake Lodge and RV Resort also offers overnight accommodations and a boat launch on the shore of Loon Lake. For information on their available facilities, visit loonlakerv.com or call 541-599-2244.
Where else in the area can I camp? The BLM Coos Bay District Office also manages three other campgrounds in the Coast Range within an hour's drive of Loon Lake. Please click on each campground below for more information: - Smith River Falls Campground - Vincent Creek Campground - Fawn Creek Campground Several other public and privately owned campgrounds offer first-come, first-served, or reservable sites in the area. You can also search for other campgrounds on Recreation.gov, the Siuslaw National Forest at fs.usda.gov/siuslaw, or Oregon State Parks at oregonstateparks.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 52 · 4 tent-only, 5 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 86 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 52 of 52 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 2 of 52 campsite records / VAULT TOILETS on 52 of 52 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Amphitheater
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Educational Programs
- Evening Programs
- Fishing
- Guided Interpretive Walks
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Night sky · 377th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
- Cell signal · Cell signal · BLM says
- None
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 51 of the 52 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
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
“Camping $18.00 Single Site (up to 6 persons/ 1 vehicle) $36.00 Double Site (up to 12 persons/ 2 vehicles) $7.00 Additional Vehicle (Online reservations may incur additional fees ) Day Use $5.00 per vehicle $3.00 Walk-…” · the Bureau of Land Management’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$36 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 Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
52 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 51 mapped sitesAll 52 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 52 of the 52 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. 51 of the 52 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 001 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 199 ft | 513 ft | 168 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 002 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 71 ft | 662 ft | 121 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 54 ft | 728 ft | 143 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 54 ft | 773 ft | 89 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 70 ft | 760 ft | 173 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 006 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 77 ft | 856 ft | 45 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 007 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 65 ft | 923 ft | 119 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 49 ft | 56 ft | 1,003 ft | 188 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 56 ft | 957 ft | 160 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 68 ft | 890 ft | 90 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 68 ft | 859 ft | 80 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 013 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 69 ft | 783 ft | 80 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 61 ft | 765 ft | 37 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 62 ft | 683 ft | 145 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 016 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 62 ft | 694 ft | 109 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 117 ft | 577 ft | 261 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 020 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 80 ft | 573 ft | 174 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 021 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 67 ft | 560 ft | 200 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 022 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 93 ft | 657 ft | 85 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 024 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 66 ft | 761 ft | 56 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 025 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 93 ft | 710 ft | 138 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 026 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 55 ft | 805 ft | 118 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 027 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 85 ft | 749 ft | 232 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 028 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 55 ft | 842 ft | 113 ft | $18–$36 |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 029 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 38 ft | 848 ft | 118 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 030 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 61 ft | 777 ft | 41 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 031 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 38 ft | 883 ft | 140 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 032 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 61 ft | 802 ft | 37 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 1-33 & T1-T5 | 033 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 84 ft | 912 ft | 149 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 034 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 67 ft | 520 ft | 223 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 035 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 84 ft | 444 ft | 298 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 036 | type not stated | 62 ft | 377 ft | 295 ft | |||
| Sites 34-53 | 037 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 55 ft | 326 ft | 249 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 038 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 42 ft | 289 ft | 185 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 039 | tent only nonelectric | 21 ft | 97 ft | 363 ft | 254 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 040 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 99 ft | 346 ft | 249 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 043 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 60 ft | 268 ft | 160 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 044 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 73 ft | 194 ft | 93 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 045 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 42 ft | 261 ft | 153 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 046 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 75 ft | 192 ft | 138 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 047 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 55 ft | 278 ft | 195 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 048 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 51 ft | 222 ft | 207 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 049 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 65 ft | 335 ft | 237 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 050 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | yes | 51 ft | 220 ft | 157 ft | $18–$36 |
| Sites 34-53 | 051 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 65 ft | 333 ft | 176 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 052 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 40 ft | 236 ft | 77 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Sites 34-53 | 053 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 40 ft | 270 ft | 57 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Tent Meadows | A | walk to | 20 ft | 43 ft | 735 ft | 107 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Tent Meadows | B | walk to | 20 ft | 43 ft | 711 ft | 144 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Tent Meadows | C | walk to | 20 ft | 75 ft | 620 ft | 116 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Tent Meadows | D | walk to | 20 ft | 39 ft | 551 ft | 60 ft | $18–$36 | |
| Tent Meadows | E | walk to | 20 ft | 39 ft | 521 ft | 43 ft | $18–$36 |
25 of 52 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Loon Lake CampgroundCoos Bay Umpqua Field Office · 0.4 mi
East Shore Campground ORCoos Bay Umpqua Field Office · 0.6 miFawn Creek CampgroundCoos Bay Umpqua Field Office · 13 miSmith River Falls CampgroundCoos Bay Umpqua Field Office · 13 mi
Vincent Creek CampgroundCoos Bay Umpqua Field Office · 14 mi
Eel Creek CampgroundOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 17 miFrom I-5 in Oregon, take the Drain Exit (#162) south of Cottage Grove. Travel 43 miles west on OR-38 W to Loon Lake Road, 4 miles west of Scottsburg.
From US HWY 101 in Reedsport, travel 13 miles east on OR-38 E to Loon Lake Road.
Watch for Loon Lake Recreation Site sign on OR-38 between mileposts 13 and 14.
Turn south onto Loon Lake Road, then travel 7 miles to the recreation site. When you come onto the Loon Lake Recreation Site sign on your left, the entrance is to the right, between the large boulders.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Elkton, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 69°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January 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 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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Loon Lake Recreation Site 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…area, though visitors should note that there is no cell phone coverage in the area. Loon Lake Recreation Site's operating season is…”