Packard Creek
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24–$48Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3916 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Packard Creek is a popular campground on the western side of Hills Creek Reservoir. The family-friendly destination offers a picturesque setting among tall trees, with views of the lake beyond. Most of the campground is accessible. Keep reading
Recreation
Larison Creek Trail is excellent for mountain biking, horseback riding and hiking. It meanders along Larison Cove and Larison Creek, through lush vegetation of hemlock, Douglas fir and red cedar. Visitors also enjoy boating, swimming and fishing. Anglers often catch catfish, blue gill, crappie and coho salmon. A fishing dock, swimming area and boat ramp can be found in the day use area.
Facilities
There are 36 standard campsites, 14 are reservable. Each campsite is equipped with a picnic table and a campfire ring. There is also a reservable group campground, which accommodates up to 80 people, has a large picnic shelter and open space for tents. Some sites have individual boat docks as well.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on a large flat beside Hills Creek Reservoir. The lake, hugged by a diverse mix of vegetation, covers 2,735 acres with 44 miles of shoreline in Willamette National Forest.
Nearby Attractions
The campground is near Oakridge, Oregon, once a railroad boomtown at the turn of the 20th century. Other noteworthy places include many hot springs found within the forest.
What the agency tells you
Caution: poison oak is common near campsites; walk carefully through the underbrush
This facility has first-come, first-served sites
Limit one vehicle per site; a fee will be charged for additional vehicles
Everything else this campground posts · 7
A fee will be charged for day-use visitors
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
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.
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
Check in 2PM and check out 1PM
Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Willamette.MiddleFork@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 39 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- 17 of 39
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 509th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 16 of the 39 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
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
40 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 37 mapped sitesAll 40 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 36 of the 40 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 39 of the 40 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.
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 005 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 60 ft | 321 ft | 98 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 006 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 60 ft | 376 ft | 55 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 007 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 81 ft | 354 ft | 131 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 008 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 68 ft | 273 ft | 104 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 290 ft | 137 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 135 ft | 418 ft | 146 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 121 ft | 503 ft | 105 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 397 ft | 139 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 032 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 229 ft | 202 ft | 154 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 033 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 229 ft | 223 ft | 213 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 034 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 144 ft | 54 ft | 53 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 144 ft | under 10 ft | 196 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 036 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 323 ft | 138 ft | 405 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 037 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 170 ft | 94 ft | 118 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA PACKARD CREEK PICNIC | 1 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 229 ft | 502 ft | 221 ft | $200 |
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 30 ft | $23–$42 | |||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 36 ft | $23–$42 | |||
| XXX Management | XXX | unnamed record | $24–$48 | ||||
| XXX Management | XXX02 | standard nonelectric | 214 ft | 535 ft | 313 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX03 | standard nonelectric | 121 ft | 597 ft | 108 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX04 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 411 ft | 205 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX13 | standard nonelectric | 187 ft | 121 ft | 271 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX14 | standard nonelectric | 165 ft | 158 ft | 91 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX15 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 125 ft | 138 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX16 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 169 ft | 202 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX17 | standard nonelectric | 13436 ft | 363 ft | $24–$48 | ||
| XXX Management | XXX18 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 128 ft | 122 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX19 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 109 ft | 89 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX20 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 100 ft | 72 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX21 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 78 ft | 122 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX22 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 105 ft | 147 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX23 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 122 ft | 329 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX24 | standard nonelectric | 152 ft | 138 ft | 89 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX25 | standard nonelectric | 152 ft | 152 ft | 134 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX26 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 167 ft | 320 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX27 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 179 ft | 348 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX28 | standard nonelectric | 113 ft | 239 ft | 277 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX29 | standard nonelectric | 113 ft | 348 ft | 336 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX30 | standard nonelectric | 170 ft | 267 ft | 343 ft | $24–$48 | |
| XXX Management | XXX31 | standard nonelectric | 170 ft | 175 ft | 265 ft | $24–$48 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It filed it without a site name, and nothing in its own record decides what it is. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 40 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sand Prairie CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 6.9 miFrom Oakridge, Oregon: Beginning at the intersection of Crestview Street and Oregon State Highway 58 (the only traffic light along State Highway 58 in Oakridge), travel east on Highway 58 for 1.7 miles. At the intersection with Kitson Springs Road, turn right and travel for 0.5 miles. Turn right on Forest Road 21, and travel for approximately 5.2 miles. The destination will be on your left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Oakridge, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 31°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Packard Creek 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 →