Sharps Creek Recreation Site
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Payment is done via Electronic Fee machine on site ONLY. NO CASH PAYMENTS ACCEPTED ON SITE Reserve a site at Sharps Creek on recreation.gov or pay when you arrive for non-reserved campsites using the Recreation.gov Mobile App. You must download before you reach the site since there is no cell reception in the drainage. Step off the beaten path and explore a delightful gem nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains with ties to the historic Bohemia Mining District, 18 miles southeast of Cottage Grove. Keep reading
The site offers a 12-unit campground, day-use picnicking area, and a nearby swimming hole formed naturally among rounded boulders at the base of an overlook extending above Sharps Creek. Cool and delightful waters entice the visitor to swim or simply 'dabble' along the bank while enjoying the surrounding beauty of the forest. For those with a penchant for gold panning, the site offers exciting opportunities to try one's skill and luck! The Springfield Office of the Northwest Oregon District of the Bureau of Land Management manages the Sharps Creek Recreation Site.
Recreation
Sharps Creek Recreation Site consists of a small, family campground and a day-use area overlooking Sharps Creek. A swimming hole at the base of the overlook provides a refreshing place to cool down on hot, summer days. All swimmers should use caution.
Facilities
Sharps Creek Campground offers 12 campsites with easy access to the day use swimming area next door. The campground has vault toilets and running water. There is no Cellular Service at the site.
Natural Features
Sharps Creek campground and the surrounding area are home to large canopy trees such as Douglas fir, western hemlock, red cedar, red alder and big leaf maple. The forest understory features a host of native plants like rhododendron, salal, various fern species, salmonberry and vine maple. On the forest floor, oxalis, Calypso orchids and mosses compliment the scenery. A diverse variety of bird life, from the seldom seen pileated woodpecker, northern spotted owl and marbled murrelet to the ever-present Oregon junco, frequent this area. Signs of larger animals, such as raccoon, mink, bear, elk, deer and beaver are evident.
Nearby Attractions
The Row River National Recreation Trail / Covered Bridges State Scenic Bikeway is located less than 4 miles northwest of Sharps Creek Recreation Site. Dorena Lake City of Cottage Grove Charges & Cancellations Standard fees apply and are non-refundable. Visit https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies for more information.
What the agency tells you
Campfires? Please see here for current campfire restrictions: Fire Closures and Restrictions . Typically, campfires are limited to the steel fire rings or BBQ grills provided within the recreation site. No building rock campfire rings.
Pets are ALLOWED but must be LEASHED (max. 6 feet) in the parking lot. Please dispose all pet waste in trash receptacles.
Camping stay limit is 14 days in a 28 day period.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Quiet hours are from 10:00 pm to 7:00 am.
No ATVs or ORVs allowed within the recreation site.
Camping check-in is 1:00 pm. Check-out is 11:00 am.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 11
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 12 of 12 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER (SEASONAL) on 12 of 12 campsite records
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 13 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Gold Panning
- Picnicking
- Water access
- Night sky · 605th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
- Cell signal · Cell signal · BLM says
- None
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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.
“Standard fees apply and are non-refundable. Visit https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies for more information.” · this campground’s own 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
12 records
All 12 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 11 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Camp | 01 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $20 | |
| Camp | 02 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $20 | |
| Camp | 03 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 | |
| Camp | 04 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $20 | |
| Camp | 05 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | $20 | |
| Camp | 07 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | yes | $20 |
| Camp | 08 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $20 | |
| Camp | 09 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $20 | |
| Camp | 10 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 | |
| Camp | 11 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | $20 | |
| Camp | 12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $20 | |
| Camp | Host Site | host pad | 40 ft | yes | $20 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rujada CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 4.3 mi
Rujada Day Use Picnic AreaUmpqua National Forest · 4.3 miCedar Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 5.0 mi
Lund Park CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 6.5 miMineral Camp CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 7.4 mi
Musick Guard StationUmpqua National Forest · 10 miTake Cottage Grove exit 174 from Interstate Highway 5. Turn left onto Row River Road and follow signs to Dorena Lake (Approximately 4 miles). Continue straight on Shoreview Drive for 6.6 miles to rejoin Row River Road (covered bridge to the right). Continue traveling east 4.2 miles to Sharps Creek Road. Turn right and continue 3.1 miles. The campground is located on the right side of the road; the day use area is 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 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
Sharps Creek Recreation Site 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
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