Steamboat Falls Campground
1Heads up1 fire 18 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
This campground offers excellent scenery. Although Steamboat Creek is closed to all fishing, summer visitors often see large steelhead trout attempting to jump the falls during their spawning runs. The campground is located on the opposite side of Steamboat Creek from Steamboat Creek Road. Towering fir trees shade the nine campsites, and in the summer months many enjoy swimming at the falls. The trailhead for the 5.5-mile Mott segment of the North Umpqua Trail is about 6 miles southwest of the campground. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking Non-Motorized Boating Swimming Scenic Views Fly Fishing on the North Umpqua River Facilities Vault Toilets Day Use Area Each site has a picnic table and fire ring Open year-round; first come, first serve 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 Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 440-4930.
Nearby Attractions
North Umpqua Trail #1414 Steamboat Falls Steamboat Fish Viewing Site Wild & Scenic North Umpqua River Charges & Cancellations Changes and 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 developed 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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 10 of 10 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Hiking
- Mountain biking
- Scenic drives
- Swimming
- Night sky · 278th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:44 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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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.
“Changes and 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.” · 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 15:44 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
10 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 9 mapped sitesAll 10 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. 10 of the 10 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 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $10 | ||
| Steamboat Falls | 1 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 36 ft | 195 ftDeep Creek | $10 |
| Steamboat Falls | 2 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 36 ft | 216 ftDeep Creek | $10 |
| Steamboat Falls | 3 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 128 ft | 199 ft | $10 |
| Steamboat Falls | 4 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 135 ft | 56 ft | $10 |
| Steamboat Falls | 5 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 91 ft | 127 ft | $10 |
| Steamboat Falls | 6 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 91 ft | 215 ft | $10 |
| Steamboat Falls | 7 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 104 ft | 211 ft | $10 |
| Steamboat Falls | 8 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 104 ft | 274 ft | $10 |
| Steamboat Falls | 9 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 138 ft | 282 ftDeep Creek | $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
Island CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 4.7 mi
Canton Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 4.8 mi
Steamboat Ball Field Group SiteUmpqua National Forest · 4.9 miApple Creek CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 5.0 mi
Deer Flat Group Site (Horseshoe Bend Campground)Umpqua National Forest · 5.9 mi
Horseshoe Bend Campground (OR)Umpqua National Forest · 5.9 miFrom Roseburg, OR take OR-138 E/NE Diamond Lake Blvd. Continue on 138 until you reach Forest Service (FS) Road #38, Steamboat Creek Road. Continue on FS Road 38 to FS Road 3810 and turn right. Cross the bridge, stay to the left, and continue on FS Road 3810 for 1 mile to Steamboat Falls Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Glide, 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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Steamboat 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 →