Olallie on McKenzie Highway - Willamette (OR)
1Heads up1 fire 16 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 1716 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Nestled on the banks of the McKenzie River and Olallie Creek, Olallie Campground provides a superb setting for a getaway into nature. The lower loop offers mesmerizing views of both the river and the creek while the upper loop is set further in the trees with many sites facing the creek. The McKenzie River is a tributary of the Willamette River that runs for 90 miles, flowing into the southernmost end of the Willamette Valley. There are 16 Reservable campsites. Sites can accommodate vehicles and trailers up to 35 feet in length. Keep reading
There are 4 sites that have short parking spurs, on uneven slopes, and are recommended as tent sites only/not suitable for RV parking. Drinking water is available via one hand pump well which is located on the lower loop. There are two accessible double vault toilet buildings; one on the upper road and one on the lower. Trash receptacles are located in the campground. Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly. Scan and Pay might be offered at this campground; It is recommended that you pay by cash or check for FCFS campsites. There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with FCFS payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded. Please download the Rec.Gov app prior to arriving at the campground as there may be no cellular service or very limited service at the campground. If no Scan & Pay option is available you must pay via cash or check. Reservations may be made up to 6 months in advance of arrival date by reserving online at RECREATION.GOV or by calling 877-444-6777.
Recreation
Fishing, rafting and swimming are three top activities in the river. A day use picnic area is also available at the campground. Nearby is the 26 mile McKenzie River National Recreation Trail, which provides access to world class mountain biking and hiking.
Facilities
This campground has 16 sites divided into two loops along the eastern banks of the river by Olallie Creek. No electric hookups are available at the campground. Picnic tables, vault toilets and drinking water are among the amenities available. There may or may not be a camp host onsite at this location.
Natural Features
Olallie Campground is located in the midsection of the Cascades mountain range in western Oregon. The Willamette National Forest stretches for 110 miles with varied landscapes of high mountains, narrow canyons, cascading streams, and wooded slopes. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 967-3917.
Nearby Attractions
McKenzie Pass-Santiam Pass National Scenic Byway, McKenzie River National Recreation Trail (hiking and mountain biking destination), and McKenzie Wild and Scenic River for boating and fishing. Fishing, rafting and swimming are three top activities in the river. A day use picnic area is also available at the campground.
What the agency tells you
One vehicle per site; extra vehicle at the site is $10 per vehicle per night.
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.
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws
Everything else this campground posts · 8
This campground is in central Oregon near McKenzie Bridge on the Willamette National Forest. There is another "Olallie" near Mt. Hood, Oregon. Please ensure this is the campground you want.
Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly.
Check-In 2:00PM
Check-out 12:00PM
Due to parking, Campsites 9 & 10 have been combined to form a Double site.
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
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.
For more information on Willamette National Forest, click here
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 17
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Paved pads
- 2 of 17
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 14 of 15 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 11 of 17 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…sites only/not suitable for RV parking. Drinking water is available via one hand pump well which is…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 363rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- Spotty
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 16 of the 17 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 · 14
What you actually pay
“extra vehicle at the site is $10 per vehicle per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$50 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
17 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 16 mapped sitesAll 17 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. 17 of the 17 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| OLAL | 002 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 91 ft | 228 ft | $25–$50 |
| OLAL | 003 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 96 ft | 262 ft | $25–$50 |
| OLAL | 004 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 96 ft | 288 ft | $25–$50 |
| OLAL | 005 | standard nonelectric | 89 ft | 119 ft | 312 ft | $25–$50 |
| OLAL | 006 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 122 ft | 341 ft | $25–$50 |
| OLAL | 008 | standard nonelectric | 12 ft | 82 ft | 203 ftOlallie Creek | $25–$50 |
| OLAL | 009 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 46 ft | 203 ftOlallie Creek | $25–$50 |
| OLAL | 010 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 46 ft | 227 ftOlallie Creek | $25–$50 |
| OLAL | 011 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 51 ft | 266 ftOlallie Creek | $25–$50 |
| OLAL | 1 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 91 ft | 204 ft | $25–$50 |
| RVR | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 96 ft | $25–$50 |
| RVR | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 104 ft | $25–$50 |
| RVR | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 53 ft | 109 ft | $25–$50 |
| RVR | 015 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 83 ft | 136 ftOlallie Creek | $25–$50 |
| RVR | 016 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 83 ft | 74 ft | $25–$50 |
| RVR | 017 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 53 ft | 88 ft | $25–$50 |
| S&P - Offseason | Standard S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $25 |
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
Paradise in OregonWillamette National Forest · 5.7 mi
Limberlost CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 5.8 miFrom Eugene, take I-105 east to McKenzie Highway 126 for 55 miles to McKenzie Highway. Travel 13 miles beyond McKenzie Highway on 126 East. Olallie is on the left-hand side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Black Butte Ranch, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
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
Olallie on McKenzie Highway - Willamette (OR) is in Oregon’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Janelle Bynum (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
“…app prior to arriving at the campground as there may be no cellular service or very limited service at the campground. If no Scan & Pay…”