U.S. Forest Service · Siuslaw National Forest · OR
North Fork Siuslaw Campground
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Season
- May 1 – October 31Open May 1 through October 31
140 ftElevation
275 ftWater · North Fork Siuslaw RiverEstuary · 7.6 mi
9.5 miNE of Heceta Beach, OR
73%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 503rd darkest of 770 in OR
Open May 1 through October 31Today
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
North Fork Siuslaw Campground is a dispersed site with 7 campsites.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Coordinate44.10180, -123.93824
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near here
Horse Creek CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 7.7 mi
Alder DuneSiuslaw National Forest · 8.5 miArchie Knowles CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 8.7 miBaker Beach CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 9.0 mi
Sutton CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 9.0 miRock Creek CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 10 mi
Horse Creek CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 7.7 miAlder DuneSiuslaw National Forest · 8.5 miArchie Knowles CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 8.7 miBaker Beach CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 9.0 miSutton CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 9.0 miRock Creek CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 10 miSource: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today78°Mostly Sunny
Tonight51°Patchy Fog14% rain
Saturday66°Areas Of Fog then Partly Sunny12% rain
Saturday Night39°Mostly Clear then Patchy Fog
NWS forecast for Mapleton, OR
Source: National Weather Service, PQR forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 61°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 44°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
80°30°
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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
Measured at: FLORENCE #2, OR (USC00352973), 10 miles away and 65 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
North Fork Siuslaw Campground 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
Right now: The agency lists it open right now. Its own recreation database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Season: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Mapleton, OR, 5.3 mi NW (a census designated place). Straight line.