South Umpqua Falls Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 8 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 2120 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Tucked away in the Umpqua Valley, South Umpqua Falls Campground is an open meadow campground surrounded by timber. This campground features 20 campsites and has the space and amenities for group camping. Across the road is the South Umpqua Falls Picnic Area, where you can see the South Umpqua River cascade 15 feet over a wide slab of bedrock, check out Chinook salmon, and spot bald eagles flying overhead. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking Scenic Drive/Sightseeing Bird Watching Picnicking Facilities 20 tent/trailer sites Each site has a picnic table and fire ring Three vault toilets Open year-round; first come, first serve Grey water waste sumps Natural Features Visitors to the Umpqua National Forest are often taken aback by the unique landscapes of southwestern Oregon. High Cascades glaciation, whitewater rapids, and explosive geologic events have shaped the distinctive landscape on the 983,239 acres of forest that provides spectacular scenery as well as an abundance of natural and cultural resources. Verdant stands of hemlock, fir and cedar transition to forests of mixed conifers and hardwoods at lower elevations, while alpine ecosystems dominate high peaks. The translation of the word "Umpqua," meaning "thundering waters," defines the area. The Forest's waterways and diversity create desirable habitat for many species of fish and wildlife, in addition to providing outstanding recreational opportunities to our local communities and visitors.
Nearby Attractions
South Umpqua River Campbell Falls Trail 1587 Deer Lick Falls Trail 1568 South Umpqua Falls Rogue Umpqua Divide Wilderness Trailheads Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 440-4930.
Charges & Cancellations
This is a Scan and Pay campground . There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with Scan and Pay payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded.
What the agency tells you
Campfires are allowed in Forest Service installed metal fire rings when conditions allow. Learn more about current fire information: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/umpqua/fire/info Quiet hours between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Check in: 1:00 p.m.; Check out: 11:00 a.m. Electric or water hook ups are not available. Drinking water is not available, please bring your own. Trash facilities are not available; pack it in, pack it out. Fireworks are prohibited. OHV/ATV use is prohibited in the campground. There is no cell phone coverage Dogs must be on a leash. Maximum length of stay anywhere on the forest is 14 days. Must pay via Scan & Pay onsite with the Recreation.gov app. Fishing is NOT allowed.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 21
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 21 of 21 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Meadow
- Birding
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 283rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 14:34 UTC
recreation.gov lists 20 of the 21 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
Watch for a cancellation
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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 · 14
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee $5 per vehicle per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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.
“This is a Scan and Pay campground. There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with Scan and Pay payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded.” · 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 · 7
recreation.gov availability, read 14:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
21 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 21 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. 21 of the 21 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Extra Vehicle Fee | Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 35 ft | $5 | ||
| South Umpqua Falls | 01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 172 ft | 234 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 02 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 53 ft | 284 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 53 ft | 257 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 04 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 82 ft | 259 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 05 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 112 ft | 242 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 06 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 76 ft | 484 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 07 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 76 ft | 513 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 08 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 58 ft | 498 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 09 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 58 ft | 547 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 10 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 46 ft | 549 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 11 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 46 ft | 583 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 12 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 94 ft | 625 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 13 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 128 ft | 562 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 14 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 52 ft | 440 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 15 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 48 ft | 412 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 16 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 48 ft | 410 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 17 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 44 ft | 342 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 18 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 44 ft | 299 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 19 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 231 ft | $10 |
| South Umpqua Falls | 20 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 226 ft | $10 |
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
Where it is
Ash Flat CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 2.2 mi
Acker Rock LookoutUmpqua National Forest · 2.3 mi
Boulder Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 4.5 miCover CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 5.4 miCamp Comfort CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 5.9 mi
Dumont Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 6.2 miFrom Canyonville, OR, turn off of southeast Main Street onto southeast 3rd Street / OR-227. Continue on OR-227 for approximately 23 miles until reaching the town of Tiller, OR. Turn left onto County Road 46 (National Forest RD 28/South Umpqua RD) and continue for 20 miles. The campground is located on the left side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Prospect, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 31°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
South Umpqua Falls Campground is in Oregon’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Cliff Bentz (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →