Rocky Bend Group Campground
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Nestled on the banks of the Nestucca River, Rocky Bend Group Campground is ideal for family gatherings and group events. The site is located on Upper Nestucca River Road 16 miles east of Beaver, Oregon. This group camp offers a picturesque setting, with plenty of recreation opportunity. Keep reading
Recreation
Anglers enjoy casting a line into the Nestucca River, where steelhead and salmon can be caught during open fishing season. The campground is near hiking trails and waterfalls.
Facilities
Group site can accomodate up to 50 visitors. Sufficient parking for 3 to 4 RVs or trailers, and 3 to 5 vehicles. The site offers 5 picnic tables, a large fire ring, vault toilet, garbage dumpster and easy access to Nestucca River.
Natural Features
Enjoy the Nestucca River, surrounded by Oregon's coastal mountain range.
Nearby Attractions
The campground is along the Nestucca Country Scenic Byway Niagara Trailhead is nearby, which leads to Niagara and Pheasant Creek Falls Clarence Creek Falls
What the agency tells you
- The site is not staffed and is located behind a locked gate. After you have made a reservation you will receive an email with the combination code to the gate. If you do not receive a code please contact the Hebo Ranger District office at (503) 392-5100 during normal business hours (Monday thru Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm) to obtain the combination for the gate lock. Please have your reservation confirmation number available when you call. Check in time is 2:00 pm, check out time is 11:00 am.
When you check-out of the campground please lock the gate behind you for any stolen or damaged property will receive a citation.
Group site must be reserved in advance; no walk-up sites available
Everything else this campground posts · 6
There is no running water on site.
There is no electricity.
Garbage service is available.
Group site maximum capacity 25
Learn more about the Siuslaw National Forest.
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 informa tion.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 18 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Water access
- Night sky · 727th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 4
Full this Saturdayread 16:43 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
4 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:50 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 19. read 16:43 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 4
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:50 UTC
- Elk Bend Recreation SiteNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 4.4 mi · 1 of 1 site-night open
- Hebo Lake CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 9.2 mi · 7 of 26 site-nights open
- Sandbeach Campground - Sand Lake Recreation AreaSiuslaw National Forest · 17 mi · 73 of 160 site-nights open
- East Dunes Campground - Sand Lake Recreation AreaSiuslaw National Forest · 17 mi · 71 of 114 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:43 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
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.
| Rocky Bend Group Site | group standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 123 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Alder Glen CampgroundNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 2.2 mi
Alder Glen Recreation SiteNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 2.2 mi
Elk Bend CampgroundNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 4.3 mi
Elk Bend Recreation SiteNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 4.4 mi
South Lake Dispersed AreaSiuslaw National Forest · 6.3 mi
Fan Creek Recreation SiteNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 6.5 miFrom Hebo, Oregon, travel north on Highway 101 four miles to Beaver, Oregon and turn on Blaine Road for 6 miles. Turn right on Upper Nestucca River Road and follow for 10 miles. Site is on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Grand Ronde, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 40°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Rocky Bend Group Campground is in Oregon’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Suzanne Bonamici (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneySuzanne BonamiciU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 1st district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJeff MerkleyU.S. Senator · Oregon
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRon WydenU.S. Senator · Oregon
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Rocky Bend Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon
Dear Suzanne Bonamici, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 1st district. I tried to camp at Rocky Bend Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Rocky Bend Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Rocky Bend Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Rocky Bend Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Rocky Bend Group Campground (Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Rocky Bend Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Rocky Bend Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Rocky Bend Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Rocky Bend Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Rocky Bend Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Rocky Bend Group Campground (Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Rocky Bend Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Rocky Bend Group Campground, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Rocky Bend Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Rocky Bend Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Rocky Bend Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Rocky Bend Group Campground (Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com