Schwarz Park
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $26–$52Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6564 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Schwarz Campground is located below Dorena Lake in Oregon's Southern Willamette Valley. The campground is approximately five miles from the city of Cottage Grove. A variety of recreational opportunities are available, including fishing, boating, swimming and hiking. A number of historic covered bridges can also be found in the area. Keep reading
Recreation
Dorena Lake is a great location for boating, water skiing, fishing and swimming. Nearby Baker Bay County Park offers a boat ramp and marina. The Row River Trail stretches 14 miles from downtown Cottage Grove, past the Dorena Dam and along the entire north side of the lake. This popular path is open tor hiking, biking and horseback riding. The Cottage Grove Scenic Byway Tour meanders past seven historic covered bridges in the area. The bridges were built in the 1920s and 30s, and some are still in use today.
Facilities
Schwarz Park offers several single and double-family campsites and six group sites. Flush toilets, drinking water, showers and a dump station are provided. Younger campers love the park's big playground.
Natural Features
Dorena Lake is situated in the low foothills of the Calapooya Mountains. The campground is surrounded by a diverse mix of marshland, coniferous forests and grasslands. The weather is generally mild during the recreation season with temperatures ranging from the low 50s to the upper 90s. Chances of precipitation are high from May through mid-June.
Charges & Cancellations
Reservation changes or cancellations can be made through Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. Cancelling/Changing a Reservation A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amount. Depending on when you cancel in relation to your arrival day, it may be considered a late cancellation (see below). Late Cancellations Individual Campsites: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. Group Facility: Customers who cancel a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee. No-Shows A no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until 2pm on the day following the scheduled arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night’s recreation fee for a campsite. Early Departures If a customer departs prior to the scheduled check-out date, they may be eligible for a partial refund. Please notify staff at the facility if you depart early to allow others to use the site. Customers may notify the call center to request a refund of remaining unused nights. If a customer requests a refund for an early departure after the facility check-out time has passed, the customer will not be refunded for that night and is eligible for a refund on any additional nights that will not be used. Refunds Customers may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Customers may also initiate a refund request through the call center at any time after their reservation has ended. Debit or Credit Card Purchases: Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original card used to pay. Check or Cash Purchases: Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. You may update the address at the time you request the refund. It may take up to 6-8 weeks for the Treasury check to arrive. Please make sure your address is up to date in your customer profile.
What the agency tells you
Alcohol is prohibited at all U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Dorena Lake lands and areas, including Schwarz Park (Campground) and lease areas.
Two (2) vehicles per site allowed for single sites, included with reservation fee. Four (4) vehicles per site allowed for double sites. No additional vehicles permitted, including visitor vehicles. Extra vehicle passes cannot be purchased. Purchasing campsites for the purpose of obtaining extra vehicle passes and/or parking additional vehicles on the site without occupying the site overnight with camping equipment is prohibited.
This campground requires you to reserve 2 nights on weekends, and 3 nights on holiday weekends for single sites or double sites.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
There is no electricity, water or sewer site hook-ups at this campground.
Campsite capacity is limited to eight (8) individuals for single sites and sixteen (16) individuals for double sites. No additional visitors allowed at the campsite.
For single sites, maximum 1 camping unit (RV,trailer,camper, etc) and 2 tents or 3 tents
This campground limits camping to 14 days in any 30 day window.
For medical equipment that will need power, please bring your own battery back-up, as campers will not be allowed to run generators during quiet hours.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec
Campers must have the ability to transport their RV or Travel Trailer for the duration of their stay. Guests cannot drop off or leave unmotorized trailers if they are unable to remove them without delay.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 65 · 6 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 114 ft
- Paved pads
- 26 of 65
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…campsites and six group sites. Flush toilets, drinking water, showers and a dump station are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and six group sites. Flush toilets, drinking water, showers and a dump station are provided. Younger…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- 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, River, Coast
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Historic site
- Water sports
- Night sky · 752nd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 64 of the 65 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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $26–$52 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.
“Cancelling/Changing a Reservation A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amount.” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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
65 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 64 mapped sitesAll 65 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 65 of the 65 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. 64 of the 65 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.
| SPAR | 003D | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 108 ft | 61 ft | 421 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 005D | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 108 ft | 101 ft | 513 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 007 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 71 ft | 241 ft | 529 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 008 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 71 ft | 263 ft | 468 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 009 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 104 ft | 365 ft | 523 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 00A | group standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 291 ft | 875 ft | 715 ft | $150 | |
| SPAR | 00B | group standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 78 ft | 788 ft | 570 ft | $150 | |
| SPAR | 00C | group standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 214 ft | 443 ft | 787 ft | $150 | |
| SPAR | 00D | group standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 168 ft | 385 ft | 576 ft | $150 | |
| SPAR | 00E | group standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 220 ft | 483 ft | 370 ft | $150 | |
| SPAR | 00F | group standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 200 ft | 525 ft | 256 ft | $150 | |
| SPAR | 013 | type not stated | 50 ft | 115 ft | 294 ft | |||
| SPAR | 014 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 91 ft | 456 ft | 308 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 015 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 91 ft | 401 ft | 259 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 016D | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 91 ft | 367 ft | 361 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 018D | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 100 ft | 290 ft | 399 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 020 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 106 ft | 222 ft | 349 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 021 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 106 ft | 229 ft | 259 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 022 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 117 ft | 212 ft | 142 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 023 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 97 ft | 689 ft | 478 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 024 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 78 ft | 719 ft | 498 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 025 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 53 ft | 189 ft | 377 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 026 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 42 ft | 211 ft | 273 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 027 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 95 ft | 298 ft | 214 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 028 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 50 ft | 219 ft | 150 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 029 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | yes | 61 ft | 220 ft | 95 ft | $26–$52 |
| SPAR | 030 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | yes | 61 ft | 234 ft | 72 ft | $26–$52 |
| SPAR | 031 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 50 ft | 171 ft | 162 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 032 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 88 ft | 83 ft | 233 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 033 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 73 ft | 179 ft | 223 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 035 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 42 ft | 169 ft | 298 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 037 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 48 ft | 168 ft | 340 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 038D | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 82 ft | 99 ft | 413 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 040 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 72 ft | 183 ft | 490 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 041 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 72 ft | 121 ft | 480 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 044D | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 105 ft | 226 ft | 559 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 046 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 70 ft | 336 ft | 183 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 047 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 55 ft | 254 ft | 197 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 048 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 62 ft | 326 ft | 249 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 049 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 55 ft | 245 ft | 252 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 050 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 62 ft | 312 ft | 311 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 051 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 46 ft | 217 ft | 309 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 052 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 63 ft | 292 ft | 372 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 053 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 46 ft | 199 ft | 355 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 054 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 71 ft | 250 ft | 439 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 055D | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 48 ft | 182 ft | 470 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 057 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 48 ft | 135 ft | 485 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 058 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 79 ft | 70 ft | 448 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 059 | standard nonelectric | 114 ft | 79 ft | 99 ft | 373 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 060 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 73 ft | 100 ft | 302 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 061 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 73 ft | 117 ft | 239 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 067 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 54 ft | 611 ft | 469 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 068 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 54 ft | 558 ft | 430 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 069 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 63 ft | 595 ft | 504 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 070 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 36 ft | 520 ft | 477 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 071 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 47 ft | 565 ft | 541 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 072 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 47 ft | 552 ft | 576 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 073 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 65 ft | 530 ft | 621 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 074D | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 96 ft | 402 ft | 708 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 076D | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 76 ft | 306 ft | 705 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 078 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 65 ft | 294 ft | 633 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 079 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 65 ft | 305 ft | 569 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 080 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 102 ft | 407 ft | 603 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 081 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 36 ft | 486 ft | 478 ft | $26–$52 | |
| SPAR | 082 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 57 ft | 501 ft | 422 ft | $26–$52 |
25 of 65 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pine Meadows Campground7.4 mi
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Rujada Day Use Picnic AreaUmpqua National Forest · 13 miCedar Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 15 mi
Ivan Oakes Campground16 miFrom Cottage Grove, Oregon, take Exit 174 off of Interstate 5. Travel East on Row River Road for approximately 5 miles; you will cross Row River twice. The entrance to the campground is on the left side of the road immediately after you cross Row River for the second time.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cottage Grove, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 34°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Schwarz Park 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 →