U.S. Forest Service · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR
Tollgate Campground & Day Use Area
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 15 mi
Wildfire
The Narrows fire · 15 mi away · 305 acres · 98% contained · updated Sep 16, 2026
Wildfire
Latigo Lane fire · 18 mi away · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Grasshopper fire · 20 mi away · 93,972 acres · 98% contained · updated Sep 30, 2026
Wildfire
Austin fire · 21 mi away · 12,888 acres · 98% contained · updated Oct 12, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026
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
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
1,720 ftElevation
546 ftWater · Zigzag River
2 miE of Mount Hood Villages, OR
71%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 738th darkest of 770 in OR
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
Tollgate Campground is one of the most conveniently located campgrounds to Portland, making it a great headquarters for exploring the Mt. Hood area. It stands in the southwestern shadow of Oregon's highest point, Mt. Hood. The campground provides access to a variety of trails, as well as historic sites, including spots along the famed Oregon Trail.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 37 km away
- Patchy color
Source: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (37 km) · Oct 11, 2026
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 itAlaska Recreational Management, Inc.A private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Servicethe operator link
Every line of the receipt · 5
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.
This site is operated by Alaska Recreational Management, a concessionaire.
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 this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note
“Camping: $26/night for single unit $50/night for group site $8/extra vehicle Day Use Fee: $10/day/vehicle” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
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 · 5
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
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 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
TollgateMt. Hood National Forest · 0.0 mi
Camp CreekMt. Hood National Forest · 2.2 miGreen Canyon Campground & Day Use AreaMt. Hood National Forest · 3.3 mi
Wildwood Recreation SiteNw Oregon Cascades Field Office · 4.6 mi
Riley Horse CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 4.7 mi
Lost CreekMt. Hood National Forest · 5.3 mi
TollgateMt. Hood National Forest · 0.0 miCamp CreekMt. Hood National Forest · 2.2 miGreen Canyon Campground & Day Use AreaMt. Hood National Forest · 3.3 miWildwood Recreation SiteNw Oregon Cascades Field Office · 4.6 miRiley Horse CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 4.7 miLost CreekMt. Hood National Forest · 5.3 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight45°Mostly Cloudy then Areas Of Fog29% rain
Saturday59°Rain Likely then Patchy Fog69% rain
Saturday Night35°Areas Of Fog
Sunday64°Patchy Frost then Partly Sunny
NWS forecast for Rhododendron, OR
Source: National Weather Service, PQR forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
90°30°
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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
Measured at: HEADWORKS PORTLAND WTR B, OR (USC00353770), 15 miles away and 972 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
developing
Roadless
Roadless
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 4, 2026
Who answers for this land
Tollgate Campground & Day Use Area is in Oregon’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Maxine Dexter (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’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
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
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (37 km) · Oct 11, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported patchy color · Oct 11, 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: inside Rhododendron, OR (a census designated place). Straight line.