U.S. Forest Service · Siuslaw National Forest · OR
South Lake Dispersed Area
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Photos · USDA Forest Service photo by B. Schnell
2,310 ftElevation
155 ftWater · South LakeEstuary · 9.7 mi · to Sand Lake
7.3 miNW of Grand Ronde, OR
77%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 707th darkest of 770 in OR
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
At an elevation of 2400 feet, this area offers dispersed camping along the northern edge of the lake. The lake is stocked periodically with rainbow trout. There is access for launching non-motorized boats. A vault toilet is provided but no potable water. It is also the eastern trailhead of the Pioneer - Indian Trail .
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…for launching non-motorized boats. A vault toilet is provided but no potable water. It is also the…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…boats. A vault toilet is provided but no potable water. It is also the eastern trailhead of the Pioneer -…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
Source: Stated in the agency description
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
None
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Hebo Lake CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 4.0 mi
Castle Rock Group CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 4.9 mi
Rocky Bend Group CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 6.3 mi
Alder Glen Recreation SiteNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 8.2 mi
Alder Glen CampgroundNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 8.3 mi
Elk Bend CampgroundNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 11 mi
Hebo Lake CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 4.0 miCastle Rock Group CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 4.9 miRocky Bend Group CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 6.3 miAlder Glen Recreation SiteNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 8.2 miAlder Glen CampgroundNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 8.3 miElk Bend CampgroundNw Oregon Tillamook Field Office · 11 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight51°Mostly Cloudy then Chance Light Rain42% rain
Saturday57°Partly Sunny10% rain
Saturday Night39°Mostly Clear
Sunday58°Partly Sunny
NWS forecast for Hebo, OR
Source: National Weather Service, PQR forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 3, 2026
Who answers for this land
South Lake Dispersed Area is in Oregon’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Andrea Salinas (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
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Hebo, OR, 6.2 mi ESE (a census designated place). Straight line.