RIVERSIDE AT DETROIT (Willamette National Forest, OR)
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 14 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3937 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Riverside Campground provides 32 single campsites that can accomodate trailers up to 24 feet in length, 1 double campsite. This campground has both reservable and FCFS campsites. The campground is situated with two main loops. All sites are equipped with picnic tables and fire rings. Water is provided via individual faucet risers located throughout the campground. There are three double-vault toilets located in accessible locations. Trash receptacles are located in the campground. Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly. Keep reading
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 for this site can be made up to 6 months in advance of arrival date by reserving online at RECREATION.GOV or by calling 877-444-6777.
Recreation
Anglers enjoy fishing for rainbow trout on the river. Among the many options for hiking and biking trails, the Mt. Jefferson-Pamelia Lake Trail Area is bound to please all types. Hikers looking for a challenging trail will enjoy the Minto Mountain Trail.
Facilities
This campground has 37 sites, 26 are reservable. The campground is comprised of two sections. The southeast (upriver) section has more secluded sites on a bluff overlooking the river. Northwest (downriver) sites have partial shade and a more open setting. Drinking water spigots can be found throughout the campground. Waste gray water disposal sites are provided. Firewood is available for sale on-site.
Natural Features
Riverside is located along the North Fork Santiam River at an elevation of 2,400 feet. Surrounding vegetation includes hemlock, rhododendron and fern, among the towering conifers. The campground is in the North Santiam Travel Corridor of the Willamette National Forest. The forest covers 1.6 million acres on the western slopes of the Cascade Range. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 967-3917.
Nearby Attractions
The Marion Forks Fish Hatchery, along Marion and Horn Creeks, is an interesting place to visit. Here, visitors can see rainbow trout, summer steelhead and spring chinook being harvested.
What the agency tells you
No electric hookups at this facility
Limit one vehicle per campsite; a $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for additional vehicles
You must stay in the campsite that you reserved. Site swapping is not allowed
Everything else this campground posts · 9
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
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.
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
No Overflow Parking. No Day Use Parking.
Tight corners in campground may not allow passage of vehicles over 30 feet in length.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 39
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 95 ft
- Paved pads
- 27 of 39
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 38 of 39 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…the campground. There are three double-vault toilets located in accessible locations. Trash receptacles…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…partial shade and a more open setting. Drinking water spigots can be found throughout the campground.…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 462nd 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 37 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 · 15
What you actually pay
“a $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for additional vehicles” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$40 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
39 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 36 mapped sitesAll 39 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 37 of the 39 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 39 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| East Loop | 001 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 72 ft | 218 ft | 761 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 002 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 72 ft | 216 ft | 764 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 003 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 104 ft | 219 ft | 591 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 004 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 122 ft | 190 ft | 397 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 005 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 84 ft | 178 ft | 276 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 006 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 74 ft | 166 ft | 158 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 007 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | 88 ft | 154 ft | 44 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 008 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 83 ft | 162 ft | 111 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 009 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 191 ft | 250 ft | 620 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 010 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 97 ft | 176 ft | 620 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 011 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 97 ft | 98 ft | 543 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 012 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 109 ft | under 10 ft | 438 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 013 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 83 ft | 79 ft | 141 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 014 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 86 ft | 73 ft | 105 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 015 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 74 ft | 93 ft | 168 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 016 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 84 ft | 95 ft | 273 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 104 ft | 135 ft | 531 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 018 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 70 ft | 110 ft | 733 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 019 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 70 ft | 119 ft | 797 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 020 | standard nonelectric | 14 ft | 86 ft | 111 ft | 723 ft | $25–$40 |
| East Loop | 021 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 86 ft | 125 ft | 638 ft | $25–$40 |
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 30 ft | $25 | |||
| West Loop | 022 | type not stated | 95 ft | 92 ft | 563 ft | $25 | |
| West Loop | 023 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 79 ft | 93 ft | 437 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 024 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 75 ft | 88 ft | 361 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 025 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 60 ft | 97 ft | 285 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 026 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 59 ft | 108 ft | 209 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 027 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 69 ft | 104 ft | 141 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 028 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 71 ft | 63 ft | 90 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 029 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 62 ft | 36 ft | 85 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 030 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 62 ft | 36 ft | 98 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 031 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 90 ft | 96 ft | 140 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 032 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 65 ft | 185 ft | 144 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 033 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | 65 ft | 222 ft | 126 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 034 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 105 ft | 200 ft | 87 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 035 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 50 ft | 166 ft | 213 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 50 ft | 156 ft | 263 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 037 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 158 ft | 376 ft | $25–$40 |
| West Loop | 038 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | $25–$40 |
25 of 39 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Whispering Falls CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 4.4 mi
Santiam Flats Campground9.7 mi
Cleator BendWillamette National Forest · 9.7 mi
Breitenbush CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 9.9 miFrom Detroit, OR, take Route 22 toward Sisters. Go 14.2 miles to the campground on right side of the road.
From Sisters, head toward Detroit on Route 22. Go 43 miles to the campground on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Idanha, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 27°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
RIVERSIDE AT DETROIT (Willamette National Forest, 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…”