Millpond Recreation Site
1Heads up1 fire 27 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $14From, 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 CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO WILDFIRE DAMAGE. Nestled along the clear waters of Rock Creek, Millpond’s lush forest gives way to spacious grassy areas, great for day-use and running the kids and dogs. A children's play area, a large ball-field, interpretive panels, and swimming areas are all available at Millpond. There is a short nature trail on the west end of the campground and the mile-long Sawmill Trail to the east. In 1988 congress designated the North Umpqua River as a National Wild and Scenic River, preserving and protecting it for outdoor enthusiasts. The river is a tributary of the Umpqua River, which runs for over 200 miles from the Cascade Range of southwestern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean. Keep reading
Recreation
Guests can play kickball, softball or other sports in the field that's on the other side of day use parking area. Adjacent to the pavilion are horseshoe pits and a playground to entertain young ones. From the pavilion, visitors can follow a 1-mile interpretive trail that passes through the site of an old lumber mill. Between the pavilion and campground there is a swimming hole for the whole family to enjoy with a beach, picninc tables, and grills.
Facilities
Loop campground with 12 campsites, drinking water, vault restrooms, and swimming area.
Natural Features
Millpond is just west of the Umpqua National Forest, in a lush region full of Douglas fir trees, western red cedar and sugar pines. The campground is in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains at an elevation of 1,170 feet.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors can get their adventure fix with kayaking and whitewater rafting and fishing in the North Umpqua River, just five miles away. The incredibly scenic 79-mile North Umpqua Trail is ideal for mountain biking and hiking. And for a family-friendly destination, the nearby Rock Creek Fish Hatchery allows visitors to view salmon and steelhead.
What the agency tells you
RESERVATION ONLY - NO FIRST-COME-FIRST-SERVE AVAILABILITY WHEN INDICATED AT SITE
12 campsites are available on the campground loop. Site 1 is hike-in only
There are no hook-ups available at campsites
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Check-in: 1:00 p.m. Check-out: 11:00 a.m.
Day-Use area is free of charge
Host is on-site
Pets must be kept on six foot leash
Firewood is unavailable until further notice
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with 12 campsites, drinking water, vault restrooms, and swimming area. Natural Features Millpond is…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Loop campground with 12 campsites, drinking water, vault restrooms, and swimming area. Natural…”
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Biking
- Fish Hatchery
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Swimming
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($14), 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 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 12 sites
| Main | Site 001 | standard nonelectric | 122 ft | 319 ft |
| Main | Site 002 | standard nonelectric | 115 ft | 323 ft |
| Main | Site 003 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 217 ft |
| Main | Site 004 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 186 ft |
| Main | Site 005 | standard nonelectric | 117 ft | 119 ft |
| Main | Site 006 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 34 ft |
| Main | Site 007 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 79 ft |
| Main | Site 008 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 38 ft |
| Main | Site 009 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 191 ft |
| Main | Site 010 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 84 ft |
| Main | Site 011 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 131 ft |
| Main | Site 012 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 164 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lone Pine Group CampgroundRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 0.2 mi
Susan Creek CampgroundRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 6.4 mi
Bogus Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 8.4 mi
Scaredman Recreation SiteRoseburg District Swiftwater Field Office · 9.4 mi
Wolf Creek Group SiteUmpqua National Forest · 9.8 miCoolwater CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 11 miTravel 22 miles east of Roseburg on Highway 138. Six miles east of Glide, turn north on Rock Creek Road (County Road 78). Travel five miles to the campground. Elevation: 1170’
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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Millpond Recreation Site 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 →