Sixes River Campground OR
1Heads up1 fire 34 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 43 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sixes River Campground offers 19 campsites tucked into a forested hideaway along the Sixes River. It’s an excellent destination for picnicking, swimming, and wildlife viewing. Keep reading
Recreation
Popular activities at the campground include camping, fishing, sightseeing, gold panning, and water play.
Natural Features
Sixes River Campground is shaded by towering big-leaf maple, oak, and Douglas-fir trees that provide abundant cover throughout the campground.
Nearby Attractions
The area provides warm temperatures and easy access to nearby coastal attractions. Cape Blanco Lighthouse, New River Nature Center, Oregon State Parks, and several coastal beaches are nearby.
What the agency tells you
The campground is open from Memorial Day to September 30th, each year.
The campground is first-come, first-served.
There are no electrical, water or sewer hook-ups.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Dogs must be on 6-foot leash at all times.
Poison oak is common in the campground; so look for and avoid the distinctive, glossy leaves with three leaflets.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 4
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Beach
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 3 of the 4 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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 10
What you actually pay
“Camping $16.00 Single Campsite $8.00 Additional Vehicle (Online reservations may incur additional fees ) Day Use $6.00 Day use NOTICE: You may also pay through the Scan & Pay feature in the Recreation.gov app (please…” · the Bureau of Land Management’s own fee record
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
5 records · the site map
All 5 records
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.
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | standard nonelectric | 280 ft |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | day use | 280 ft |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 4 | type not stated | 280 ft |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 5 | type not stated | 280 ft |
| Scan and Pay | Standard | standard nonelectric | 280 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Edson Creek Campground (OR)Coos Bay Myrtlewood Field Office · 5.0 miButler Bar CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 5.9 miSunshine Bar CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 6.4 mi
Laird Lake CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 9.0 mi
Daphne Grove CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 14 mi
Rock Creek CampgroundSiskiyou National Forest · 15 miComing from Northbound on U.S. 101: To Reach Sixes River Campground, travel five miles north of Port Orford, Oregon, and turn right onto Sixes River Road and travel approximately 11 miles.
Coming Southbound on U.S. 101: Travel 25 miles south of Bandon, Oregon and turn left on to Sixes River Road and travel approximately 11 miles.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Port Orford, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 41°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
Sixes River Campground OR 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 →