Trout Creek Campground - Willamette (OR)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2524 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
There are 24 sites on a single loop with four RV pull-throughs ranging from 24 to 40 feet. There are both reservable and FCFS campsites. There are two double vault accessible toilets and one accessible single vault toilet. Drinking water is available from one hand pump well. The Civilian Conservation Corps constructed the campground in the 1930's, which includes a day use picnic shelter with fireplace that is centrally located along with tables and BBQ grill; there is nearby river access in this day use area. There are about 3-5 spots for parking depending on the size of the vehicles. 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. Reservations may be made up to 6 months in advance of arrival date by reserving online at RECREATION.GOV or by calling 877-444-6777.
Recreation
Wading and fishing are popular in the river and hikers enjoy easy access to the 2.8-mile Trout Creek Trail and the short Walton Ranch Interpretive Trail. The Menagerie Wilderness can be accessed from the Trout Creek Trail, so hikers and backpackers can explore the area's extensive system of trails.
Facilities
Drinking water is from a hand pump well. There are three vault restrooms available in the park. Parking spurs are gravel and roads are paved. Campfire wood is not readily available at the park. Please plan to bring firewood or purchase from a nearby vendor. Linn County Parks staff, may occasionally, come through the park with firewood available for purchase.
Natural Features
Trout Creek is tucked in a heavily wooded landscape with lichen and moss-draped Alder, Douglas fir, Hemlock, and Maple trees. Campsites are well-shaded and full of ferns and similar sub-tropical greenery. Many sites stretch along the South Santiam River, a 66-mile tributary of the Santiam River.
Nearby Attractions
The Menagerie Wilderness and Trout Creek Trail is located directly across from Trout Creek Campground. To the west, is the historic Long Ranch and now an Elk Refuge. A short wheelchair-accessible trail is located directly across Highway 20 from the campground and accesses a wildlife viewing platform that overlooks the ranch. Nearby is the Old Santiam Wagon Road that stretches along the Highway 20 corridor.
What the agency tells you
Site fee covers 1 vehicle; additional vehicles will be charged a $10 fee, per vehicle per night. If you have questions on what is considered an "extra vehicle", please refer to our kiosk for details.
No electric hookups are available
No firearms, fireworks or chainsaws
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Check-Out 12:00PM
Check-In 2:00PM
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.
Campfire wood is not readily available at the park. Please plan to bring firewood or purchase from a nearby vendor. Linn County parks staff, may occasionally, come through the park with firewood available for purchase.
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.
For more information on Willamette National Forest, click here
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 25 · 2 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 115 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 2 of 25 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and one accessible single vault toilet. Drinking water is available from one hand pump well. The Civilian…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Historic site
- Night sky · 555th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- Spotty
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 13 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 24 of the 25 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
“additional vehicles will be charged a $10 fee, 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–$50 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
25 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 23 mapped sitesAll 25 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. 23 of the 25 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.
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | 36 ft | $25 | ||
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 81 ft | 276 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 46 ft | 197 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 46 ft | 157 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 96 ft | 87 ft | 106 ft | |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 96 ft | 80 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 77 ft | 77 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 115 ft | 68 ft | 135 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 77 ft | 88 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 99 ft | 68 ft | 168 ft | |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 58 ft | 155 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 58 ft | 214 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 73 ft | 131 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 70 ft | 174 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 71 ft | 106 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 61 ft | 165 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 61 ft | 111 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 78 ft | 201 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 78 ft | 125 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 79 ft | 135 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 89 ft | 148 ft | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 67 ft | under 10 ftTrout Creek | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 62 ft | under 10 ftTrout Creek | $25–$50 |
| TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 62 ft | 26 ftTrout Creek | $25–$50 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Yukwah CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 0.5 mi
Longbow Organization GroupWillamette National Forest · 1.0 mi
Fernview Group SiteWillamette National Forest · 2.5 mi
House Rock CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 5.2 miSevenmileWillamette National Forest · 6.9 miFrom Sweet Home, OR, follow Highway 20 east for 19 miles and look for signs for the Trout Creek Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cascadia, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 33°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Trout Creek Campground - Willamette (OR) 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 →
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…”