Tyee Campground - Oregon Dunes
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Tyee Campground, located 6 miles south of Florence, is part of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The small campground sits on the northern banks of the Siltcoos River near the Siltcoos Lake outlet. Many campers bring kayaks for paddling up and down the river. This is a great campground for kids to play and anglers to try their luck from the riverbank. Keep reading
Recreation
Hikers can enjoy expansive nearby beaches and explore dune formations above the Siltcoos River. Meanwhile, anglers have a chance to catch coho salmon and bird watchers can view a variety of shorebirds and waterfowl.
Facilities
Campground amenities include vault toilets and a boat ramp. Each campsite has a picnic table and a fire ring with a grill attached. Parking aprons are paved and a dump station is within 4 miles at Honeyman State Park. The campground has 14 sites, all of which are available by reservation only.
Natural Features
A few sites are secluded by coastal shrubbery and other sites are located in an open meadow alongside the water. The Siltcoos River flows west past the campground, starting its journey at the 3,164-acre Siltcoos Lake and emptying into the Pacific Ocean. The Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area boasts the largest coastal dunes system in North America. Roosevelt elk, panfish, and bald eagles are just some of the wildlife that live in this area.
Nearby Attractions
Boating is available at Tahkenitch Lake, Siltcoos Lake, and Siltcoos River. Off-road vehicle riding trails weave along the nearby dunes at South Jetty. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 271-6000.
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 · 7
No RV hookups are provided and there is no water at this campground. This is a dry campground.
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.
Each campsite has a parking limit of 2 vehicles.
On beaches designated for snowy plover nesting, certain activities are limited from March 15 through September 15. Read more about snowy plover management here.
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
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Facilities Campground amenities include vault toilets and a boat ramp. Each campsite has a picnic table…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach, Coast, Meadow
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 558th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 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
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 9 mapped sitesAll 15 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 9 of the 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22 | |||
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22 | |||
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22 | |||
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22 | |||
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 46 ft | 177 ft | 1,790 ft | $22 |
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 46 ft | 145 ft | 1,814 ft | $22 |
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 57 ft | 113 ft | 1,849 ft | $22 |
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 62 ft | 106 ft | 1,912 ft | $22 |
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 51 ft | 90 ft | 1,962 ft | $22 |
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 51 ft | 108 ft | 2,008 ft | $22 |
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 60 ft | 133 ft | 2,067 ft | $22 |
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 58 ft | 163 ft | 2,062 ft | $22 |
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 63 ft | 129 ft | 2,126 ft | $22 |
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22 | |||
| AREA TYEE CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
DriftwoodOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 1.1 mi
Lagoon CampgroundOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 1.1 mi
Waxmyrtle CampgroundOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 1.3 mi
Siltcoos Sand CampingOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 1.5 mi
Carter LakeOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 2.3 mi
South Jetty Sand CampingOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 4.9 miFrom Florence, OR, travel south on Highway 101 for six miles to Pacific Avenue. Turn left onto Pacific Avenue and travel approximately 100 feet. The campground entrance is located on the right (south) side of Pacific Avenue.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Dunes City, OR
Typical weather
Typical May night 44°F, day 60°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 44°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
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
Tyee Campground - Oregon Dunes 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 →