U.S. Forest Service · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR
Riverford Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 6 mi
Wildfire
Austin fire · 5.6 mi away · 12,888 acres · 98% contained · updated Oct 12, 2026
Wildfire
The Narrows fire · 8.1 mi away · 305 acres · 98% contained · updated Sep 16, 2026
Wildfire
Latigo Lane fire · 29 mi away · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Summit fire · 41 mi away · 20 acres · updated Oct 17, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 17, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
Photos · Forest Service
1,500 ftElevation
183 ftWater · Clackamas River
17.9 miS of Mount Hood Villages, OR
68%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 700th darkest of 770 in OR
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Riverford Campground is a small scenic campground, along the Clackamas River near its confluence with the Collawash River set in a dense forest of Douglas fir and hemlocks. Located on the Wild and Scenic Clackamas River.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 39 km away
- Patchy color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (39 km) · Oct 11, 2026
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itAlaska Recreational Management, Inc.A private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Servicethe operator link
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
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
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: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
RaabMt. Hood National Forest · 0.7 mi
Riverside CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 0.7 mi
Riverside (Mt. Hood National Forest, OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 1.7 miLittle Fan Creek CampMt. Hood National Forest · 3.3 mi
Rainbow (OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 3.3 mi
RipplebrookMt. Hood National Forest · 3.4 mi
RaabMt. Hood National Forest · 0.7 miRiverside CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 0.7 miRiverside (Mt. Hood National Forest, OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 1.7 miLittle Fan Creek CampMt. Hood National Forest · 3.3 miRainbow (OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 3.3 miRipplebrookMt. Hood National Forest · 3.4 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight50°Mostly Cloudy then Slight Chance Light Rain24% rain
Saturday65°Chance Light Rain then Mostly Cloudy52% rain
Saturday Night41°Partly Cloudy
Sunday71°Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Mount Hood Villages, OR
Source: National Weather Service, PQR forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
90°32°20°
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.
Measured at: THREE LYNX, OR (USC00358466), 6 miles away and 380 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
developing
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 4, 2026
Who answers for this land
Riverford Campground 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
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
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
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
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (39 km) · Oct 11, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported patchy color · Oct 11, 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.