Santiam Flats Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 22 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $25–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3429 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Santiam Flats Campground provides 31 campsites, 26 single and 5 double, that can accommodate trailers up to 30 feet in length. Campground is now fully reservable. First come first serve is only available if no prior reservation has been made and only offered one night at a time. All sites are equipped with picnic tables and fire rings. Water is provided via individual faucet risers located throughout the campground. There are three single-vault toilets located in accessible locations throughout the campground. Trash receptacles are available in the campground. There is No Day Use area in this campground. Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly. 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. Keep reading
Recreation
There is no Day Use availble in this campground. Sailing, boating, water skiing and fishing are all excellent options for enjoying Detroit Lake. Catfish, rainbow trout and Kokanee salmon are among the most common species found in the lake. Several hiking trails dot the area, including Stahlman Point Trail, which offers beautiful vistas of Detroit Lake and the surrounding area. The Hoover Nature Trail is an accessible, short footpath that delights many campers. The Willamette National Forest has about 1,700 miles of trail. While many are in wilderness areas, a number of trails are low-elevation, easy-access trails for year-round hiking.
Facilities
Sites have picnic tables, grills and easy access to the vault toilets. Drinking water spigots are spread throughout the campground. Most campsites offer views of the lake. Santiam Flats does not have a boat launch ramp. Some of the sites are adjacent to the shoreline and mooring is allowed for paying campers only. There is no Day Use availble.
Natural Features
The campground lies in the Willamette National Forest, which stretches for 110 miles along the western slopes of the Cascade Range. The varied landscape of high mountains, narrow canyons, cascading streams and wooded slopes offer varied recreational opportunities for visitors.
Nearby Attractions
Detroit Lake provides plenty of opportunity for water recreation like boating, water skiing and kayaking. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 967-3917.
What the agency tells you
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.
There are no electric hookups available
Off-road vehicles are not permitted
Everything else this campground posts · 9
First-come, first-served sites may be available if site was not reserved. But can only be paid for one night at a time. Must check at campground kiosk for availability.
Limit 1 vehicle per site; an $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for each additional vehicle
You must stay in the campsite that you reserved. Site swapping is not allowed.
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
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
Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly.
No Day Use availble in this campground.
Check-In 2:00PM
Check-Out 12:00PM
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 34
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…the campground. There are three single-vault toilets located in accessible locations throughout the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and easy access to the vault toilets. Drinking water spigots are spread throughout the campground. Most…”
- 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
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 621st darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 29 of the 34 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 · 14
What you actually pay
“an $10 per vehicle per night fee will be charged for each additional vehicle” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$50 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
34 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 29 mapped sitesAll 34 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 32 of the 34 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. 34 of the 34 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.
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $25–$50 | |||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $25–$50 | |||
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 01 | type not stated | 25 ft | 160 ft | 2,331 ft | $25–$50 | |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 54 ft | 174 ft | 2,270 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 54 ft | 188 ft | 2,216 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 53 ft | 159 ft | 2,176 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 53 ft | 181 ft | 2,123 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 58 ft | 204 ft | 2,066 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 61 ft | 229 ft | 2,005 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 45 ft | 214 ft | 1,759 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 45 ft | 178 ft | 1,714 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 61 ft | 120 ft | 1,653 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 38 ft | 96 ft | 1,666 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 36 ft | 112 ft | 1,700 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 36 ft | 133 ft | 1,735 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 42 ft | 150 ft | 1,774 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 44 ft | 146 ft | 1,805 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 16 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 46 ft | 185 ft | 1,853 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 17 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 46 ft | 132 ft | 1,831 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 18 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 46 ft | 121 ft | 1,871 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 19 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 46 ft | 160 ft | 1,878 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 20 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 48 ft | 104 ft | 1,922 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 21 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 48 ft | 141 ft | 1,937 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 22 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 54 ft | 97 ft | 1,983 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 23 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 51 ft | 112 ft | 2,035 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 24 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 51 ft | 61 ft | 2,047 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 25 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 16 ft | 2,140 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 26 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 64 ft | 2,146 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 27 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 87 ft | 27 ft | 2,233 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 28 | type not stated | 50 ft | 90 ft | 2,238 ft | $25–$50 | |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 29 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 75 ft | 76 ft | 2,304 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 30 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 59 ft | 82 ft | 2,378 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 31 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 77 ft | 2,437 ft | $25–$50 |
| SANTIAM FLATS CAMPGROUND | 32 | type not stated | 68 ft | 2,482 ft | $25–$50 |
25 of 34 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hoover Campground0.4 mi
Cove Creek (OR)Willamette National Forest · 2.1 miPiety Island2.2 mi
Southshore at Detroit Lake - Willamette (OR)3.0 miSouthshore Campground3.0 mi
Humbug CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 4.5 miTravel 2.6 miles northeast of Detroit, Oregon. From Detroit, follow Highway 22 east for 2.6 miles to Blowout Road/Forest Service Road 10 on the right. Santiam Flats Campground in 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 Idanha, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 47°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 36°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
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
Santiam Flats 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 →