Paradise in Oregon
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $29–$58Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6159 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Paradise Campground is indeed a paradise for campers. Tucked within a lush, old-growth forest of Douglas fir and western red cedar, the area portrays a sub-tropical vibe along the banks of the McKenzie River, where catch-and-release trout and steelhead fishing is a popular activity, along with whitewater rafting and kayaking. Keep reading
Recreation
Rafters and kayakers live it up in the whitewater of the McKenzie River. A boat ramp is located on-site. The McKenzie River National Recreation Trail begins nearby, and is a favorite among hikers and mountain bikers.
Facilities
A number of sites face the river, while many others are tucked into the scenic forest. Flush toilets are dispersed throughout the campground and parking spurs are paved. Educational programs are provided at the amphitheater.
Natural Features
Paradise sits on a bend of the river at an elevation of 1,600 feet. Ferns and other moisture loving plants cover the ground, and mosses drape the trees. The campground is in the heart of Willamette National Forest, which spans 1.6 million acres on the western slopes of the Cascade Range.
Nearby Attractions
A golf course is located about 7 miles west of the campground.
What the agency tells you
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 electric hookups at this facility
This campground has first-come, first-served sites
Everything else this campground posts · 8
A fee will be charged for additional vehicles
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.
Choose a site that will fit your rig. You MUST stay on the site you book. No site switching!
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.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
For more information on Willamette National Forest, click here
Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Willamette.McKenzieRiver@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 61
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Paved pads
- 31 of 61
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…are tucked into the scenic forest. Flush toilets are dispersed throughout the campground and parking…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Whitewater rafting
- Night sky · 385th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 59 of the 61 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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $29–$58 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
62 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 31 mapped sitesAll 62 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 61 of the 62 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| PARA | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 002 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 003 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 119 ft | 152 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 112 ft | 155 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 006 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 112 ft | 148 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 95 ft | 142 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 009 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 79 ft | 159 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 010 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 79 ft | 171 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 011 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 012 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 013 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 014 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 015 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 016 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 017 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 86 ft | 225 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 86 ft | 160 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 020 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 021 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 117 ft | 116 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 022 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 158 ft | 161 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 023 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 98 ft | 164 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 024 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 025 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 026 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 027 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 028 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 029 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 030 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 031 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 032 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 033 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 035 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 036 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 037 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 038 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 175 ft | 306 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARA | 040 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 041 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARA | 042 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARADISE IN OREGON | 046 - MANAGEMENT | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARADISE IN OREGON | 058 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | $29–$58 | ||
| PARADISE IN OREGON | 059 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 279 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 043 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 386 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 044 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 333 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 045 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 262 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 047 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 214 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 048 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 197 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 049 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 165 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 051 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 73 ft | 124 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 052 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 48 ft | 89 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 053 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 48 ft | 92 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 054 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 37 ft | 102 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 055 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 37 ft | 119 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 056 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 45 ft | 144 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 057 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 191 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 060 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 80 ft | 489 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 061 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 485 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 062 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 64 ft | 486 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 063 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 50 ft | 469 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | 064 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 50 ft | 445 ft | $29–$58 |
| PARB | XXX | unnamed record | 40 ft | $28–$52 | ||
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 60 ft | $28–$52 | ||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $28–$52 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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.
25 of 62 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Limberlost CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 2.3 mi
Horse Creek Group CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 3.2 mi
McKenzie BridgeWillamette National Forest · 4.0 miOlallie CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 5.6 mi
Olallie on McKenzie Highway - Willamette (OR)Willamette National Forest · 5.7 miFrom Eugene, Oregon, take I-105 east to McKenzie Highway 126 and drive 55 miles to McKenzie Bridge. The campground is located on the left side of Highway, 4 miles beyond McKenzie Bridge.
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
Paradise in Oregon 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 →