Slide Creek
1Heads up1 fire 32 mi away
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $22–$44Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
- Season
- April 1 – September 30Open April 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Slide Creek Campground is a unique camping destination just 50 miles from Eugene, Oregon. Located on the east bank of the Cougar Reservoir, it is known for handy access to boating and many water activities. It is also near Terwilliger Hot Springs, a pristine area with 5 soaking pools fed by the Rider Creek waterfall. Keep reading
Recreation
Activities on the reservoir include water skiing, swimming, fishing and canoeing. Anglers might catch some quality rainbow trout. The campground is close to a large network of hiking trails in the Olallie Trail Area. Half of the trails are open to biking as well.
Facilities
Both campground and the day use area guests have access to drinking water, vault toilets, a boat ramp, ample parking and a swimming beach. A separate parking lot is available for boat trailers. The facility has 15 campsites that can accommodate tents, trailers or RVs and come equipped with campfire rings and picnic tables.
Natural Features
The Willamette National Forest stretches for 110 miles with varied landscapes of high mountains, narrow canyons, cascading streams, and wooded slopes. Native wildlife includes Roosevelt elk, black bear, bald eagles, black tail deer and bobcats. Cougar Reservoir sits at 1,700 feet in elevation and is an estimated 1,280 acres. Some campsites have views of Cougar Reservoir and all sites are an easy walk to the swimming area.
What the agency tells you
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
There are no electric site hook-ups at this facility
This campground has first-come, first-serve sites
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Limit 1 vehicle per site; there is a fee for additional vehicles
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.
No discharging firearms, possession of fireworks or use of chainsaws allowed
Be sure to reserve a site that will accommodate your equipment. The site you reserve is your site. You may not move to another site.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
For more information on Willamette National Forest, click here
Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Willamette.McKenzieRiver@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 90 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…guests have access to drinking water, vault toilets, a boat ramp, ample parking and a swimming beach. A…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…the day use area guests have access to drinking water, vault toilets, a boat ramp, ample parking and a…”
- 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
- Hot springs, Waterfall, Reservoir, Creek, Beach
- Birding
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 387th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$44 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 8 mapped sitesAll 15 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 8 of the 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SLIDE CREEK | 001 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22–$44 | |||
| SLIDE CREEK | 002 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 53 ft | 156 ft | 2,951 ft | $22–$44 |
| SLIDE CREEK | 003 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22–$44 | |||
| SLIDE CREEK | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 98 ft | 280 ft | 2,838 ft | $22–$44 |
| SLIDE CREEK | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22–$44 | |||
| SLIDE CREEK | 006 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 98 ft | 245 ftCougar Reservoir | 2,777 ft | $22–$44 |
| SLIDE CREEK | 007 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22–$44 | |||
| SLIDE CREEK | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 53 ft | 201 ft | 2,900 ft | $22–$44 |
| SLIDE CREEK | 009 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22–$44 | |||
| SLIDE CREEK | 010 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 109 ft | 129 ft | 2,955 ft | $22–$44 |
| SLIDE CREEK | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 200 ftCougar Reservoir | 2,839 ft | $22–$44 |
| SLIDE CREEK | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 87 ft | 115 ftCougar Reservoir | 2,808 ft | $22–$44 |
| SLIDE CREEK | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22–$44 | |||
| SLIDE CREEK | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22–$44 | |||
| SLIDE CREEK | 016 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 194 ft | 95 ftCougar Reservoir | 2,600 ft | $22–$44 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sunnyside CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 1.1 mi
Cougar Crossing CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 1.2 mi
French Pete CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 2.4 mi
Hard Rock CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 2.7 mi
Indian Ridge LookoutWillamette National Forest · 5.0 mi
Red Diamond CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 5.6 miFrom Blue River, travel 4 miles east on Hwy 126 to Aufderheide Drive (FS road 19). Proceed on Aufderheide Drive for 9.5 miles to FS road 1900-500 and continue for 1.5 miles to Slide Creek Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cascadia, OR
Typical weather
Typical April night 45°F, day 64°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical April night 45°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Slide Creek 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 →