McKenzie Bridge
1Heads up1 fire 24 mi away
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $24–$48Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2518 on recreation.gov
- Season
- April 1 – September 30Open April 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
McKenzie Bridge Campground is located an hour east of Eugene, Oregon. It rests in the shade of a towering grove of Douglas fir and Western red cedar trees along the banks of the McKenzie River. The campground is small and pleasant, providing an ideal atmosphere for relaxation, fishing and bird watching. Feathered residents of the river include osprey, great blue herons and bald eagles. Keep reading
Recreation
At the campground, the river provides catch-and-release fishing for trout and steelhead. Whitewater kayaking and rafting are also popular activities. A boat ramp is located on-site. The McKenzie River National Recreation Trail begins nearby, offering fun-filled hiking and biking opportunities. The 26-mile trail boasts wonderful scenery along the river and is an easy hike for all ages.
Facilities
Campsites are nicely spaced and many have riverfront access. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Parking areas are gravel surfaced.
Natural Features
McKenzie Bridge sits on the banks of the McKenzie River at an elevation of 1,200 feet. Rapids in various sections of the river are what make McKenzie one of Oregon's most popular rivers for whitewater rafting. McKenzie Bridge is part of the Willamette National Forest, which stretches for 110 miles along the western slopes of the Cascade Range.
Nearby Attractions
Restaurants and the Tokatee Golf Course are within a few miles of the campground.
What the agency tells you
No electric hookups at this facility
This facility has first-come, first-served sites
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Limit 1 vehicle per site. Extra vehicles need to be paid at site.
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.
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
Be sure to reserve a site that will accommodate your equipment. The site you reserve is your site. You may not move to another site.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Click here for more information on Willamette National Forest
Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Willamette.McKenzieRiver@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 25
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…spaced and many have riverfront access. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Parking areas are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…riverfront access. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Parking areas are gravel surfaced.…”
- 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
- River
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Rafting
- Night sky · 482nd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 36 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 18 of the 25 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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$48 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 13 mapped sitesAll 26 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. 25 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA MCKENZIE BRIDGE | 001 - MANAGEMENT | type not stated | $23–$43 | |||
| AREA MCKENZIE BRIDGE | 015 | type not stated | $23–$43 | |||
| AREA MCKENZIE BRIDGE | 017 | type not stated | $23–$43 | |||
| AREA MCKENZIE BRIDGE | X | type not stated | 20 ft | $23–$43 | ||
| AREA MCKENZIE BRIDGE | XXX | unnamed record | 20 ft | $23–$43 | ||
| BBWS | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 147 ft | 115 ft | $24–$48 |
| BBWS | 011 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 146 ft | 272 ft | $24–$48 |
| BBWS | 012 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 86 ft | 131 ft | $24–$48 |
| BBWS | 013 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $24–$48 | ||
| BBWS | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24–$48 | ||
| BBWS | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $24–$48 | ||
| BBWS | 016 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 39 ft | 167 ft | $24–$48 |
| BBWS | 017 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $24–$48 | ||
| BBWS | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 127 ft | $24–$48 |
| BBWS | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 39 ft | 131 ft | $24–$48 |
| BBWS | 020 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 328 ft | 117 ft | $24–$48 |
| MCKE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 85 ft | 330 ft | $24–$48 |
| MCKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 85 ft | 322 ft | $24–$48 |
| MCKE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 59 ft | 303 ft | $24–$48 |
| MCKE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 59 ft | 303 ft | $24–$48 |
| MCKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24–$48 | ||
| MCKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 46 ft | 271 ft | $24–$48 |
| MCKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 46 ft | 257 ft | $24–$48 |
| MCKE | 009 | type not stated | 30 ft | $23–$43 | ||
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 30 ft | $23–$43 | ||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 30 ft | $23–$43 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. 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.
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Horse Creek Group CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 1.7 mi
Paradise in OregonWillamette National Forest · 4.0 miMcKenzie River Trailhead at Paradise CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 4.3 mi
Lookout Campground and Boat Launch - WillametteWillamette National Forest · 4.6 mi
MonaWillamette National Forest · 4.7 mi
DeltaWillamette National Forest · 5.4 miFrom Eugene, OR, take I-105 east to McKenzie Highway 126 for 55 miles. Look for signs. The campground is located on the right side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cascadia, OR
Typical weather
Typical April night 45°F, day 64°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical April night 45°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
McKenzie Bridge 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 →