Waxmyrtle Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 5754 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Waxmyrtle Campground is located 8 miles south of Florence within the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The campground is situated near the beach, several hiking trails, and a non-motorized section of open dunes. These nearby attractions, combined with excellent campground amenities, make Waxmyrtle an ideal camping destination. Waxmyrtle also borders the picturesque Siltcoos River Estuary, where wildlife viewing is a popular pastime for campers. Keep reading
Recreation
The campground serves as the starting point for the Waxmyrtle Trail, which follows the Siltcoos River as it winds its way to the Pacific Ocean. Other nearby trails include the Lagoon Trail and the Chief Tsiltcoos Trail. Nearby off-road vehicle trails and open dune riding areas provide hours of fun for off-road enthusiasts.
Facilities
Camping is available from May 1 through September 30 and amenities include drinking water, a campground host, flush toilets, picnic tables, fire rings, recycling, and trash collection. Parking aprons are paved.
Natural Features
The campground is located near the Siltcoos River and is situated among shore pine, huckleberry, and other coastal shrubs and conifers. Many sites are surrounded by a thick wall of coastal shrubbery, providing ample privacy from neighboring sites. The campground is part of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, which is known for its wind-sculpted sand dunes towering up to 500 feet above sea level. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 271-6000.
Nearby Attractions
Siltcoos Lake offers bass, cutthroat trout, and rainbow trout fishing. The Siltcoos off-highway vehicle staging area is located less than 1 mile west of the campground on the Siltcoos Beach Access Road.
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.
No RV hookups available in this campground
Everything else this campground posts · 8
All vehicles must stay within striped paved areas
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.
2 vehicle limit per campsite
Due to Snowy Plover critical nesting season certain activities are limited from March 15th through September 15th. Visit Siuslaw Alerts and Notices for more details.
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.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 57
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 85 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…drinking water, a campground host, flush toilets, picnic tables, fire rings, recycling, and trash…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…September 30 and amenities include drinking water, a campground host, flush toilets, picnic tables,…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach, Coast
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 514th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 54 of the 57 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 · 12
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
57 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 53 mapped sitesAll 57 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 56 of the 57 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. 54 of the 57 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 001 | type not stated | 491 ft | 1,676 ft | |||
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 76 ft | 430 ft | 1,744 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 71 ft | 421 ft | 1,820 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 63 ft | 436 ft | 1,902 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 71 ft | 490 ft | 1,809 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 71 ft | 471 ft | 1,970 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 63 ft | 498 ft | 1,899 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 63 ft | 525 ft | 2,036 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 52 ft | 588 ft | 2,066 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 52 ft | 639 ft | 2,082 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 56 ft | 603 ft | 2,022 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 58 ft | 694 ft | 2,091 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 48 ft | 784 ft | 1,986 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 55 ft | 757 ft | 2,086 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 49 ft | 802 ft | 2,055 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 48 ft | 825 ft | 2,024 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 61 ft | 542 ft | 1,739 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 48 ft | 575 ft | 1,806 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 58 ft | 593 ftSiltcoos River | 1,700 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 48 ft | 621 ft | 1,793 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 54 ft | 598 ft | 1,858 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 52 ft | 625 ft | 1,924 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 52 ft | 648 ft | 1,884 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 60 ft | 727 ft | 1,952 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 58 ft | 663 ft | 2,032 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 55 ft | 718 ft | 2,034 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 55 ft | 788 ft | 1,935 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 57 ft | 829 ft | 1,908 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 70 ft | 917 ft | 1,918 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 90 ft | 603 ftSiltcoos River | 1,627 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 58 ft | 539 ftSiltcoos River | 1,649 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 53 ft | 716 ftSiltcoos River | 1,672 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 53 ft | 690 ftSiltcoos River | 1,695 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 034 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 60 ft | 752 ft | 1,759 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 035 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 60 ft | 793 ft | 1,806 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 786 ftSiltcoos River | 1,738 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 037 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 55 ft | 854 ft | 1,829 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 038 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 31 ft | 850 ftSiltcoos River | 1,777 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 039 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 31 ft | 862 ftSiltcoos River | 1,763 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 040 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 59 ft | 912 ft | 1,850 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 041 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 101 ft | 975 ft | 2,025 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 042 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 65 ft | 1,064 ft | 1,938 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 043 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 53 ft | 1,057 ft | 2,002 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 044 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 53 ft | 1,110 ft | 2,018 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 045 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 60 ft | 1,173 ft | 2,022 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 046 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 60 ft | 1,207 ft | 1,990 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 047 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 60 ft | 1,190 ftSiltcoos River | 1,936 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 049 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 71 ft | 989 ftSiltcoos River | 1,764 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 050 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 61 ft | 1,095 ftSiltcoos River | 1,897 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 051 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 61 ft | 1,038 ftSiltcoos River | 1,873 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 052 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 56 ft | 893 ftSiltcoos River | 1,746 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 053 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | $22 | |||
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 054 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 55 ft | 741 ftSiltcoos River | 1,646 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 055 | type not stated | 64 ft | 626 ftSiltcoos River | 1,571 ft | ||
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 056 | type not stated | 585 ftSiltcoos River | 1,571 ft | |||
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 48A | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 58 ft | 1,118 ftSiltcoos River | 1,851 ft | $22 |
| AREA WAXMYRTLE CAMPGROUND | 48B | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 58 ft | 1,059 ftSiltcoos River | 1,811 ft | $22 |
25 of 57 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lagoon CampgroundOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 0.3 mi
Siltcoos Sand CampingOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 0.5 mi
DriftwoodOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 0.6 mi
Carter LakeOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 1.3 mi
Tyee Campground - Oregon DunesOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 1.3 mi
Tahkenitch LandingOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 5.2 miFrom Florence, OR, travel seven miles south on Highway 101 to the Siltcoos Beach Access Road. Turn right onto the Siltcoos Beach Access Road and proceed one mile west to Waxmrytle Campground. Turn left (south) at the bridge; the campground entrance is across the bridge on the south shoreline of the Siltcoos River.
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
Waxmyrtle 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 →