Wild Mare Horse Camp
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 1412 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Wild Mare Horse Campground is located along the central Oregon coast, 22 miles south of Reedsport and 2 miles north of North Bend. Horse campers come here to explore the Wild Mare Horse Trail and take in captivating views of Oregon's Pacific Coast, which is just a half mile from the campground. Horse campgrounds have been designed to accommodate people who need to corral their horses. We have a limited number of these kinds of campgrounds and ask, out of courtesy and safety for you and the horses, to consider camping in a different campground if you do not have a horse. Keep reading
Recreation
Equestrian campers are fond of the Wild Mare Horse Trail #4500. This trail begins under a canopy of alder and spruce, and then emerges into an open dune area that crosses down to the beach. The dunes south of Horsfall Beach Road are designated for hiking and horseback riding only, while off-road vehicle enthusiasts can roam free on the dunes north of the campground.
Facilities
This year-round campground is equipped with drinking water, vault toilets, a picnic area, picnic tables, campfire rings, trash bins, and recycling receptacles. Horses are welcome in the campground's 12 corrals.
Natural Features
Tucked away among shore pine, Douglas fir, and huckleberry, Wild Mare 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. The campground is less than 1 mile from the Pacific Ocean. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 271-6000.
Nearby Attractions
Scenic water attractions are available in every direction from the campground. Head south to Coos Bay, west to the Pacific, and east to Horsfall Lake and Bluebill Lake.
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.
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.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Hay brought to this facility must be certified weed-free
No off-road vehicle riding in campground
Limit 2 vehicles per site
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.
On beaches designated as snowy plover nesting beaches,certain activities are limited from March 15 through September 15.
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
- 14 · 14 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 61 ft
- Paved pads
- 12 of 14
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 1 of 12 sites
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…is equipped with drinking water, vault toilets, a picnic area, picnic tables, campfire rings,…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…year-round campground is equipped with drinking water, vault toilets, a picnic area, picnic tables,…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach, Coast
- Horseback riding
- Night sky · 741st darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 12 of the 14 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
15 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 15 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 12 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. 14 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.
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.
| AREA WILD MARE HORSE CAMP | 001 | equestrian nonelectric | 60 ft | 1,323 ft | 1,058 ft | $22 | |
| AREA WILD MARE HORSE CAMP | 002 | equestrian nonelectric | 60 ft | 1,343 ft | 1,064 ft | $22 | |
| AREA WILD MARE HORSE CAMP | XXX | unnamed record | 53 ft | $22 | |||
| WILD | 001 | equestrian nonelectric | 45 ft | $22 | |||
| WILD | 002 | equestrian nonelectric | 45 ft | $22 | |||
| WILD | 003 | equestrian nonelectric | 45 ft | 80 ft | 1,377 ft | 1,074 ft | $22 |
| WILD | 004 | equestrian nonelectric | 55 ft | 102 ft | 1,515 ft | 1,008 ft | $22 |
| WILD | 005 | equestrian nonelectric | 44 ft | 95 ft | 1,556 ft | 1,052 ft | $22 |
| WILD | 006 | equestrian nonelectric | 61 ft | 95 ft | 1,510 ft | 1,147 ft | $22 |
| WILD | 007 | equestrian nonelectric | 49 ft | 81 ft | 1,654 ft | 1,166 ft | $22 |
| WILD | 008 | equestrian nonelectric | 50 ft | 78 ft | 1,609 ft | 1,245 ft | $22 |
| WILD | 009 | equestrian nonelectric | 45 ft | 78 ft | 1,551 ft | 1,315 ft | $22 |
| WILD | 010 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 1,479 ft | 1,374 ft | $22 |
| WILD | 011 | equestrian nonelectric | 47 ft | 113 ft | 1,387 ft | 1,354 ft | $22 |
| WILD | 012 | equestrian nonelectric | 37 ft | 125 ft | 1,387 ft | 1,238 ft | $22 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Bluebill CampgroundSiuslaw National Forest · 0.2 mi
Horsfall BeachOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 0.5 mi
HorsfallSiuslaw National Forest · 1.2 mi
Horsfall Sand CampingSiuslaw National Forest · 1.2 mi
Hauser Sand CampingOregon Dunes National Recreation Area · 3.3 mi
Spinreel Sand CampingSiuslaw National Forest · 8.7 miFrom Reedsport, Oregon, follow Highway 101 south for about 22 miles to the Horsfall Dunes and Beach road sign. Turn right onto Trans Pacific Lane and proceed for 1.1 miles to the intersection with Horsfall Beach Road. Turn right onto Horsfall Beach Road and proceed for 1.9 miles. At 1.9 miles, the campground entrance will be on the left.
From North Bend, Oregon, follow Highway 101 north for about 2 miles to the Horsfall Dunes and Beach road sign. Turn left onto Trans Pacific Lane and proceed for 1.1 miles to the intersection with Horsfall Beach Road. Turn right onto Horsfall Beach Road and proceed for 1.9 miles. At 1.9 miles, the campground entrance will be 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 North Bend, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 47°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 40°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Wild Mare Horse Camp 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 →