Sherwood Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 10 mi
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:55 UTC
- A night
- $38.56When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 16In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sherwood campground is an easily accessible location for simple camping, with beautiful landscapes and the Hood River rushing next to it. Close to hiking and recreational locations, Sherwood campground is a prime location for those looking for a centrally located base camp near Mt. Hood, or for those looking for a surprisingly quiet, camping getaway. Keep reading
Recreation
The location of Sherwood Campground makes for a great place to set up camp and explore the upper Hood River Valley. Hiking trails, waterfalls, river and creeks are in abundance, and with easy access to both Hood River and Mt. Hood, tourist attractions, museums and adventures await.
Facilities
Sherwood campground is a small campground, with an unexpected charm. It sits right along highway 35, so you can see it as you drive by. The rush of the river that sits next to the campground blocks all traffic sounds from the highway. Pit toilets are located centrally in the campground, making it easy to access. A camp host is available during peak season.
Natural Features
With the Upper Hood River running next to the campground, the nearby traffic is drowned out, and a peaceful retreat is found. Several of the campsites are right on the river, and the beautiful areas that the river has etched is fun to explore. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 806-0785.
Nearby Attractions
The Sherwood Campground sits near many locations that are easily accessible in the Mt. Hood area. Campers can walk along highway 35 a couple hundred feet to the Tamanawas Falls trailhead for a beautiful, popular hike. Also, Mt. Hood is only a 15-minute drive from the campground, which has various hiking, biking, and adventure centers for recreationalists.
What the agency tells you
There are no water, sewer or power hookups.
Learn more about the Mt. Hood 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 information.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Campground taxes and fees: 2%
There is no selling or swapping of sites among guests.
Site Fee includes ONE vehicle. Additional vehicles on site will be required to pay additional vehicle fee.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 16 · 13 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Accessible sites
- 16
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…all traffic sounds from the highway. Pit toilets are located centrally in the campground, making it…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, River, Creek
- Night sky · 651st darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:55 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Sherwood Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Govt Mineral Springs Guard StaGifford Pinchot National Forest · 39 mi · 1 site
- Sunset Falls CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 44 mi · 18 sites
- Elk Lake CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 48 mi · walk-up
- Fox Creek Group CampWillamette National Forest · 48 mi · 1 site
recreation.gov availability, read 16:55 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
16 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 16 mapped sitesAll 16 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 16 of the 16 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.
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 01 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 99 ft | 36 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 02 | tent only nonelectric | 27 ft | yes | 64 ft | 79 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 03 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 62 ft | 19 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 04 | tent only nonelectric | 24 ft | yes | 67 ft | 84 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 05 | rv nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 62 ft | 18 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 06 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 67 ft | 27 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 07 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 61 ft | 39 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 08 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | yes | 61 ft | 99 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 09 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 64 ft | 128 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 10 | tent only nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 83 ft | 197 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 11 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 83 ft | 228 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 12 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 86 ft | 248 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 13 | rv nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 97 ft | 226 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 14 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | yes | 54 ft | 115 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 15 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 54 ft | 65 ft | $38.56 |
| SHERWOOD CAMPGROUND | 16 | rv nonelectric | 15 ft | yes | 102 ft | 172 ft | $38.56 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Nottingham CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 1.9 mi
Tilly Jane Guard StationCrystal Springs Watershed Protection Area (National) · 3.8 miCloud Cap Saddle Campground/Day UseCrystal Springs Watershed Protection Area (National) · 4.2 mi
Fivemile Butte LookoutMt. Hood National Forest · 5.1 miPebble Ford Campground/Day UseMt. Hood National Forest · 5.2 miFrom I-84 at Hood River, head south on highway 35 toward Mt. Hood. Just past the Tamanawas Falls trailhead parking, the Sherwood Campground 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 Parkdale, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 26°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
Sherwood Campground is in Oregon’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Maxine Dexter (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →