Tahkenitch Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $22–$44Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3024 on recreation.gov
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Tahkenitch Campground is a beautiful camping destination located in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, 8 miles north of Reedsport. The campground offers some very secluded sites surrounded by local coastal shrubbery, with some other sites that are more open. Three hiking trails can be accessed next to the campground, leading to Threemile Lake and the Tahkenitch Dunes. Across the road is Tahkenitch Lake. The name Tahkenitch means "lake of many fingers." Fishing here can be relaxing and rewarding. Keep reading
Recreation
The adjacent day use area serves as the trailhead for Tahkenitch Dunes Trail, Threemile Lake Trail, and Threemile Lake South Trail. All three trails are good for sand play and scenery. Tahkenitch Dunes Trail goes through a mile of conifer forest, opening onto the dunes with views of the ocean. The trail then enters a smaller stand of shore pine and completes its journey at the Pacific Coast. Boating and fishing are popular at nearby Tahkenitch Lake. Fishing may yield cutthroat and steelhead trout, largemouth bass, and yellow perch.
Facilities
This facility has 23 campsites and 1 host site. All sites are currently available by reservation only. The campground is equipped with campfire rings, drinking water, flush toilets, and picnic tables. Parking aprons are paved and the nearest waste station is at Honeyman State Park, about 10 miles north of campground. No electric hookups are available.
Natural Features
The campground is within reach of coastal forests, expansive dunes, Tahkenitch Lake, and the Pacific Ocean. Many sites are heavily wooded and secluded, separated by a thick understory. Douglas fir and wild berries can be seen throughout the campground. The lake spans 1,674 acres. Roosevelt elk, pelicans, sea lions, and bald eagles are just some of the wildlife that live in this area. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 271-6000.
Nearby Attractions
The campground is a few miles from off-road vehicle trails on the dunes.
Charges & Cancellations
Campsites that are not occupied after 24 hours of arrival time will be considered as a "no show" and sites will be released for others to reserve. If campers will be arriving after 24 hours of their arrival time, they are encouraged to call the ranger station at 541-271-6000 to let staff know.
What the agency tells you
Guidelines for a safe visit to the Siuslaw National Forest The Siuslaw’s campgrounds, day use areas, and trails continue to be open for public enjoyment. While you are visiting the Forest, please adhere to the following guidelines. These guidelines will help ensure a safe and healthy visit for you and your family, our employees and volunteers, and other visitors: Please keep in mind that restrooms are generally cleaned and disinfected at least once daily at the more popular campgrounds and day use sites, and once to three times a week at other sites. Be prepared to provide your own soap, sanitizer, or disinfectant. If no trash receptacle is provided, please protect your public lands by packing out your waste and trash.
Forest Service-operated campsites on the Siuslaw National Forest are currently available by online reservation only. Visitors can make reservations online through this website (preferred), or via phone by calling the recreation.gov phone line at 877-444-6777. If you call this number, please be prepared for longer-than-usual wait times. Please note that the Siuslaw National Forest does not have any control over the recreation.gov phone line, so we ask you to please prepare by making reservations well in advance.
There is a 14-day in 30 rolling days camping limit on the Siuslaw National Forest. The 14 days does not have to be consecutive. The 14-day limit covers the entire Siuslaw National Forest and not just this campground as shown in the Rules Section. This means you cannot go to other campgrounds on the Siuslaw National Forest after reaching the 14-day limit.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
No RV hookups provided
Sites must occupied within first 24 hours of arrival time. Otherwise unoccupied sites will be considered a "no-show" and will be released.
For more information on Siuslaw National Forest, click here
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.
This campground is located in close proximity to multiple lakes and wetlands. Due to this, there can be an abundance of mosquitoes between the months of April and August. Please be prepared for this.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 30 · 13 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with campfire rings, drinking water, flush toilets, and picnic tables. Parking aprons are paved and…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…is equipped with campfire rings, drinking water, flush toilets, and picnic tables. Parking aprons…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Coast
- Birding
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 453rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 24 of the 30 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.
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 · 14
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.
“Campsites that are not occupied after 24 hours of arrival time will be considered as a "no show" and sites will be released for others to reserve. If campers will be arriving after 24 hours of their arrival time, they are encouraged to call the ranger station at 541-271-6000 to let staff know.” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 6
rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
30 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 30 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 26 of the 30 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. 24 of the 30 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 01 | tent only nonelectric | 13 ft | 47 ft | 467 ftTahkenitch Lake | 353 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 02 | tent only nonelectric | $22–$44 | |||||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 03 | tent only nonelectric | $22–$44 | |||||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 04 | tent only nonelectric | 47 ft | 424 ftTahkenitch Lake | 386 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 05 | tent only nonelectric | 52 ft | 514 ftTahkenitch Lake | 403 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 52 ft | 531 ftTahkenitch Lake | 452 ft | $22 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 79 ft | 519 ftTahkenitch Lake | 551 ft | $22 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 08 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 48 ft | 455 ftTahkenitch Lake | 599 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 09 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 48 ft | 444 ftTahkenitch Lake | 643 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 33 ft | 491 ftTahkenitch Lake | 629 ft | $22 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | $22 | ||||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 12 | tent only nonelectric | 24 ft | 33 ft | 507 ftTahkenitch Lake | 642 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 47 ft | 521 ftTahkenitch Lake | 709 ft | $22 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 47 ft | 557 ftTahkenitch Lake | 702 ft | $22 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 16 | tent only nonelectric | 58 ft | 608 ftTahkenitch Lake | 678 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 17 | type not stated | 654 ftTahkenitch Lake | 640 ft | ||||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 18 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 90 ft | 616 ftTahkenitch Lake | 594 ft | $22 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 19 | tent only nonelectric | 90 ft | 702 ftTahkenitch Lake | 590 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 20 | type not stated | 749 ftTahkenitch Lake | 610 ft | ||||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 21 | tent only nonelectric | 122 ft | 776 ftTahkenitch Lake | 520 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 22 | type not stated | 705 ftTahkenitch Lake | 502 ft | ||||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 23 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 626 ftTahkenitch Lake | 419 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 24 | type not stated | 693 ftTahkenitch Lake | 426 ft | ||||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 25 | type not stated | 680 ft | 334 ft | ||||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 26 | tent only nonelectric | 51 ft | 612 ft | 298 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 27 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 57 ft | 573 ftTahkenitch Lake | 393 ft | $22 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 28 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22 | ||||
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 29 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 51 ft | 603 ft | 252 ft | $22 |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 30 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 92 ft | 512 ft | 219 ft | $22 | |
| AREA TAHKENITCH CAMPGROUND | 31 | type not stated | yes | 468 ft | 165 ft |
25 of 30 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Tahkenitch LandingOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 0.3 mi
Carter LakeOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 4.2 mi
Waxmyrtle CampgroundOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 5.5 mi
Lagoon CampgroundOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 5.8 mi
Siltcoos Sand CampingOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 5.9 mi
DriftwoodOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 6.1 miFrom Reedsport: Drive north for 8 miles on Highway 101. The campground entrance is on the west (left) side of the highway.
From Florence: Drive south for 14 miles on Highway 101. The campground entrance is on the west (right) side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gardiner, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 37°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 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
Tahkenitch Campground 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 →