Trail Bridge
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 16 of the next 16 nights read 15:28 UTC
- A night
- $25–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4034 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Trail Bridge is a fully reservable campground after May 15th, 2026. First come, first serve is available only on sites that are not previously reserved and only one night at a time. This campground has 26 walk-in/tent only sites, 7 RV sites, and 1 group camp area that has 4 sites. There is a boat ramp with minimal parking. Campground has 4 vault bathrooms and 1 flush toilet bathroom. Potable water spigots throughout campground. No hook-ups. Day Use Fee are and Extra Vehicle Fee area. Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during the summer months. Please plan accordingly. Keep reading
Scan and Pay might be offered at this campground; It is recommended that you pay by cash or check for FCFS campsites. There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with FCFS payments. This system is the same as putting cash into a fee tube and cannot be refunded. Please download the Rec.Gov app prior to arriving at the campground as there may be no cellular service or very limited service at the campground. If no Scan & Pay option is available you must pay via cash or check. Camp ground has 26 Walk In-Tent Only sites, 7 Pull-Thru RV Nonelectric sites, and 1 Group Area that has 4 Pull-Thru sites. Water is available throughout camp ground via spigots. ADA parking is available. Vault & Flush toilets available.
Recreation
Boating, fishing, camping, hiking, sightseeing, mountain biking, etc.
Facilities
Walk in tent sites, pull through RV sites, boat ramp, group camping area, flush restrooms, vault restrooms, day use area, potable water available.
Natural Features
Reservoir, Blue Pool/Tamolich Falls nearby Nearby Attractions Blue Pool/Tamolich Falls, Clear Lake, Fish Lake, Sahalie Falls, Koosah Falls, McKenzie River Trail
What the agency tells you
1 vehicle is included with your campsite. Extra Vehicles are $10 per vehicle per night. Please pay before 1st night stay to avoid parking tickets.
Campfires are allowed until otherwise notified. Fire bans are common in the summer so please plan accordingly.
Walk In Sites, 1-26, Tents Only at site. No Trailers, Camper Vans, Campers etc allowed in the parking lots.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 40 · 26 walk-in, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 95 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…with minimal parking. Campground has 4 vault bathrooms and 1 flush toilet bathroom. Potable water spigots…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…bathrooms and 1 flush toilet bathroom. Potable water spigots throughout campground. No hook-ups. Day Use…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
- Night sky · 381st darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- Spotty
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 39 km away
- Patchy color
Full this Saturdayread 15:28 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
Every one of the 8 sites on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 33 are free on Tue, Oct 20. read 15:28 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
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Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicles are $10 per vehicle per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$30 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.
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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:28 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
41 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 34 mapped sitesAll 41 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 41 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. 14 of the 41 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Group Site B-Loop | Group Site Slip 27 | type not stated | 88 ft | 164 ftSmith River | $25–$225 | |||
| Group Site B-Loop | Group Site Slip 28 | type not stated | 88 ft | 192 ft | $25–$225 | |||
| Group Site B-Loop | Group Site Slip 30 | type not stated | 95 ft | 242 ft | $25–$225 | |||
| Group Site B-Loop | Group Site- includes 4 double sites (27-30) | group rv area nonelectric | 75 ft | 214 ft | 121 ft | $225 | ||
| RV A Loop | Camp Host Site 38 | host pad | 75 ft | $25–$225 | ||||
| RV A Loop | Site 31 | rv nonelectric | 85 ft | 92 ft | 212 ft | $30 | ||
| RV A Loop | Site 32 | rv nonelectric | 85 ft | 83 ft | 298 ft | $30 | ||
| RV A Loop | Site 33 | rv nonelectric | 65 ft | 109 ft | 88 ft | $30 | ||
| RV A Loop | Site 34 | rv nonelectric | 75 ft | 91 ft | 135 ft | $30 | ||
| RV A Loop | Site 35 | rv nonelectric | 80 ft | 91 ft | 58 ft | $30 | ||
| RV A Loop | Site 36 | rv nonelectric | 88 ft | 144 ft | 147 ft | $30 | ||
| RV A Loop | Site 37 | rv nonelectric | 88 ft | 144 ft | 118 ft | $30 | ||
| Scan and Pay | Group Walk Up | type not stated | $25–$225 | |||||
| Scan and Pay | RV Walk Up | type not stated | $25–$225 | |||||
| Scan and Pay | Tent Walk Up | type not stated | 339 ft | $25–$225 | ||||
| Tent Loop | Site 01 | walk to | 18 ft | 121 ft | 51 ft | 3,202 ft | ||
| Tent Loop | Site 02 | walk to | 18 ft | 121 ft | 50 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 03 | walk to | 18 ft | 179 ft | 92 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 04 | walk to | 18 ft | 115 ft | 90 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 05 | walk to | 18 ft | 115 ft | 108 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 06 | walk to | 18 ft | 91 ft | 114 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 07 | walk to | 18 ft | 91 ft | 100 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 08 | walk to | 18 ft | 123 ft | 106 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 09 | walk to | 18 ft | 97 ft | 344 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 10 | walk to | 18 ft | 84 ft | 418 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 11 | walk to | 18 ft | 84 ft | 436 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 12 | walk to | 18 ft | 126 ft | 594 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 13 | walk to | 18 ft | 144 ft | 358 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 14 | walk to | 18 ft | 155 ft | 194 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 15 | walk to | 18 ft | 106 ft | 492 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 16 | walk to | 18 ft | 75 ft | 406 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 17 | walk to | 18 ft | 75 ft | 407 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 18 | walk to | 18 ft | 106 ft | 533 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 19 | walk to | 18 ft | 94 ft | 458 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 20 | walk to | 18 ft | yes | 109 ft | 412 ft | ||
| Tent Loop | Site 21 | walk to | 18 ft | 83 ft | 359 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 22 | walk to | 18 ft | 123 ft | 478 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 23 | walk to | 18 ft | 114 ft | 573 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 24 | walk to | 18 ft | 51 ft | 459 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 25 | walk to | 18 ft | 51 ft | 420 ft | |||
| Tent Loop | Site 26 | walk to | 18 ft | 86 ft | 335 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 41 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Olallie on McKenzie Highway - Willamette (OR)Willamette National Forest · 1.7 miOlallie CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 1.8 miLakes End CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 3.6 mi
Ice Cap CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 4.8 miCold Water Cove CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 6.2 mi
Cold Water Cove - Willamette NF (OR)Willamette National Forest · 6.4 miOff Highway 126 near the Blue Pool Trail Head in the Willamette National Forest.
From McKenzie Bridge, OR, travel east on Highway 126 to Forest Road 732.
Follow Forest Road 732 around Trailbridge Reservoir to Forest Road 730.
Continue up Forest Road 730 to Trailbridge Campground on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Black Butte Ranch, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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 · a letter you can send
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
Trail Bridge is in Oregon’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Janelle Bynum (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyJanelle S. BynumU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 5th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJeff MerkleyU.S. Senator · Oregon
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRon WydenU.S. Senator · Oregon
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Trail Bridge, Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Dear Janelle S. Bynum, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 5th district. I tried to camp at Trail Bridge, Willamette National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 34 of the 40 campsites the agency files at Trail Bridge, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 8 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Trail Bridge keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Trail Bridge. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Trail Bridge (Willamette National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Trail Bridge, Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Trail Bridge, Willamette National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 34 of the 40 campsites the agency files at Trail Bridge, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 8 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Trail Bridge keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Trail Bridge. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Trail Bridge (Willamette National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Trail Bridge, Willamette National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Trail Bridge, Willamette National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 34 of the 40 campsites the agency files at Trail Bridge, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 8 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Trail Bridge keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Trail Bridge. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Trail Bridge (Willamette National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
How we know this · 4
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…app prior to arriving at the campground as there may be no cellular service or very limited service at the campground. If no Scan & Pay…”