Sacandaga
1Heads up1 fire 29 mi away
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- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $6–$14Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2017 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
This location has seven reservable sites and the rest are available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Sites must be reserved online five days before the start of the reservation. Any sites that have not been reserved can be used as first-come, first-serve, but users must be prepared to move sites within the campground if a reservation holder arrives and to claim the site. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a first-come, first-serve site. Once on-site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) using cash or by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. If this option is available, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Keep reading
Recreation
Two short hiking trails are available within the campground and fishing is available in the nearby Middle Fork River. Other opportunities for hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding are available nearby at places such as Young's Rock, Chuckle Springs, and Indigo Springs, or along the nearby Middle Fork National Recreation Trail.
Facilities
The campground has two communal bathrooms, regular trash service, and potable water available via handpump.
Natural Features
This campground is on the bank of the Middle Fork River, surrounded by towering Douglas fir and pine trees. Many peaks and springs are nearby and offer scenic vistas.
Nearby Attractions
Middle Fork River, Young's Rock, Chuckle Springs, Indigo Springs, Timpanogas Lake, Diamond Peak Wilderness
What the agency tells you
This campground has potable water available via a handpump. Guests are still recommended to bring water or a filtration system in case the water system must be closed for repairs.
There are two bathrooms available in this campground. Bathrooms will only be as clean as the last guest left them, so guests are asked to please be courteous to others who need the facilities.
Fire restrictions may be in place depending on the season and recend weather conditions. Guests are expected to know any restrictions that may impact their stay before getting to the campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Road construction and closures can impact travel to and from the site. Guests should look for any closures that may impact their travel before starting their visit.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…bathrooms, regular trash service, and potable water available via handpump. Natural Features This…”
Full this Saturdayread 15:28 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedNot reservable
The one site on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 7 are free on Wed, Oct 21. read 15:28 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.
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, $6–$14 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:28 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites · the site map
All 20 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 20 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. 17 of the 20 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.
| Loop A | 01 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 02 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 03 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 04 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 05 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 06 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 07 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 08 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 09 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 10 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 11 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 12 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 13 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 14 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 15 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Loop A | 16 | standard nonelectric | $6–$14 | ||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | type not stated | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 4 | type not stated | |||
| Scan and Pay | Standard | standard nonelectric | 223 ft | 321 ft | $6–$14 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Indigo SpringsWillamette National Forest · 3.3 mi
Warner Mountain LookoutWillamette National Forest · 3.8 mi
Campers FlatWillamette National Forest · 4.2 mi
SecretWillamette National Forest · 5.8 miSecret Group CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 5.9 mi
Sand Prairie CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 9.5 miExit I-5 heading east on Highway 58 towards Oakridge, OR. On the east side of Oakridge, just past mile marker 37, take a right onto Kitson Springs Road. In approximately half a mile take a right onto Forest Service Road 21. Just before reaching mile marker 25 the entrance to the campground will be 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 Oakridge, OR
Typical weather
Typical May night 43°F, day 70°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 43°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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 · a letter you can send
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
Sacandaga 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 →
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 moneyVal T. HoyleU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 4th 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 Sacandaga, Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Dear Val T. Hoyle, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 4th district. I tried to camp at Sacandaga, Willamette National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 17 of the 20 campsites the agency files at Sacandaga, and every one of them is booked ahead, 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 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Sacandaga keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Sacandaga. 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 Sacandaga (Willamette 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 Sacandaga, Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Sacandaga, Willamette National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 17 of the 20 campsites the agency files at Sacandaga, and every one of them is booked ahead, 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 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Sacandaga keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Sacandaga. 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 Sacandaga (Willamette 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 Sacandaga, Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Sacandaga, Willamette National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 17 of the 20 campsites the agency files at Sacandaga, and every one of them is booked ahead, 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 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Sacandaga keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Sacandaga. 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 Sacandaga (Willamette National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com