Mona
1Heads up1 fire 26 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24–$48Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2220 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Known for fishing, boating, canoeing and other water sports, Mona campground is located on the northwest shore of Blue River Reservoir. The campground is situated on a long, narrow strip of mixed conifers along the shore, the thick vegetation secludes each campsite, allowing for privacy. Slopes of mixed conifers and other trees surround the area. Reservations are available May through mid-September. They can be made up to six months in advance, but must be made at least four days prior to your intended arrival date. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, boating, swimming, and water skiing on Blue River Reservoir draw campers here. There is hiking on Buck Mountain Trail and Lookout Creek Old Growth Trail. Sightseeing is popular on the West Cascades National Scenic Byway.
Facilities
Mona Campground is popular for water play and fishing on Blue River Reservoir. There are 20 single and two double sites with tables and fire rings. Drinking water, vault toilets, and firewood for sale are provided. There is a host onsite. The campground road and parking spurs are paved, with mostly flat sites that accommodate either tents or trailers/RVs.
Natural Features
The campground sits on the northeastern shore of Blue River Reservoir and can be accessed by driving the West Cascades National Scenic Byway. It is located in the Willamette National Forest on the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains.
Nearby Attractions
Come for water play or fishing at Blue River Reservoir or for exploring the nearby trails and Scenic Byway.
What the agency tells you
This campground has first-come, first-served sites
Pets are allowed as long as they are leashed
Quiet hours are between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
One vehicle is included in the price of a single site, any extra vehicles will be charged an extra vehicle fee at the campground
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
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
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.
Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Willamette.McKenzieRiver@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Paved pads
- 11 of 22
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables and fire rings. Drinking water, vault toilets, and firewood for sale are provided. There is a…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…double sites with tables and fire rings. Drinking water, vault toilets, and firewood for sale are provided.…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River, Creek
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Picnicking
- Night sky · 493rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 29 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 20 of the 22 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 · 15
What you actually pay
“Single Campsites - $25 per night Multiple Campsites - $50 per night Extra Vehicles - $10 per vehicle, per night Day Use - $10 per vehicle, per day Download the Recreation.gov mobile app prior to your trip so you can p…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 22 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 22 of the 22 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MONA | 001 | tent only nonelectric | $24 | ||||
| MONA | 002 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | $24–$48 | |||
| MONA | 003 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 110 ft | 182 ft | $24–$48 | |
| MONA | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $24–$48 | |||
| MONA | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 49 ft | 164 ft | $24–$48 | |
| MONA | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 49 ft | 151 ft | $24–$48 | |
| MONA | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 50 ft | 144 ft | $24–$48 | |
| MONA | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24–$48 | |||
| MONA | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | $24–$48 | |||
| MONA | 010 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 36 ft | 149 ft | $24–$48 | |
| MONA | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 36 ft | 117 ft | $24–$48 | |
| MONA | 012 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 46 ft | 121 ft | $24–$48 | |
| MONA | 013 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $24–$48 | |||
| MONA | 014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $24–$48 | |||
| MONA | 015 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 113 ft | 136 ft | $24–$48 | |
| MONA | 016 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 113 ft | 154 ft | $24–$48 | |
| MONA | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $24–$48 | |||
| MONA | 018 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $24–$48 | |||
| MONA | 019 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 120 ft | 156 ft | $24–$48 | |
| MONA | 023 - MANAGEMENT | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | yes | $24–$48 | ||
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 35 ft | $23–$42 | |||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | $23–$42 |
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
Lookout Campground and Boat Launch - WillametteWillamette National Forest · 0.3 mi
DeltaWillamette National Forest · 2.8 mi
McKenzie BridgeWillamette National Forest · 4.7 mi
Horse Creek Group CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 6.3 mi
Paradise in OregonWillamette National Forest · 8.4 miMcKenzie River Trailhead at Paradise CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 8.7 miLocated 51 miles east of Eugene, OR. Follow Hwy 126 to the east, take a left turn on Forest Road 15 at Blue River Reservoir turn off. Follow Blue River Reservoir RD approximately 4 miles, take left turn across bridge to access campground. The campground entrance 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 Cascadia, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 68°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 39°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
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
Mona 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 →