Yukwah Campground
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $25–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – October 31Open May 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
There are 20 single campsites, that accommodate trailers ranging from 18 to 32 feet in length; dependent on the site. There are both reservable and FCFS campsites. Sites are spacious and private. There is a small picnic area containing barrier-free tables and fire rings. Four sites contain barrier free tables and fire rings. There are 2 single vault toilets and 1 double vault. Drinking water is provided from two hand pump wells. Yukwah Campground is tucked in a heavily wooded landscape with lichen and moss-draped alder, Douglas fir and Maple trees. Keep reading
Campsites are well-shaded and full of ferns and similar sub-tropical greenery. Many sites stretch along the South Santiam River and have river access. Yukwah Nature Trail is located within the campground and is wheelchair accessible. The trail follows 0.3 miles of the Sough Santiam River and accesses an ADA fishing platform. 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
Plenty of river activities and hiking opportunities await. Enjoy fishing and swimming in the beautiful South Santiam River or hiking the accessible Yukwah Nature Trail that winds through the campground, and lingering at the picnic area. Hike or bike the Santiam Wagon Road (now a trail), a historic trail used to transport livestock east across the Cascade Mountains to central Oregon's grasslands. Iron Mountain, Gordon Meadows, and Echo Basin are nearby hiking areas well known for their colorful wildflowers. The Menagerie Wilderness can be accessed from the Trout Creek Trail (1/4 mile from campground) where hikers can reach the top of Rooster Rock and enjoy views of the river valley (5.6 miles round trip). An accessible hike leaves from the same trailhead and takes visitors to the Walton Ranch Platform with views of the Walton Meadow (1/8 mile round trip).
Facilities
This is a smaller campground with a variety of sites to accommodate different uses, with double sites, sites for trailers and sites for tents. Drinking water is from two hand pump wells. Parking spurs are gravel and roads are paved. Vault toilets and garbage cans are spread out in convenient locations in the campground. 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
Yukwah Campground is tucked in a heavily wooded landscape with lichen and moss-draped alder, Douglas fir and Maple trees. Campsites are well-shaded and full of ferns and similar sub-tropical greenery. Many sites stretch along the South Santiam River and have river access.
Nearby Attractions
Hike or bike the Santiam Wagon Road (now a trail), a historic trail used to transport livestock east across the Cascade Mountains to central Oregon's grasslands. Iron Mountain, Gordon Meadows and Echo Basin are nearby hiking areas well known for their colorful wildflowers.
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.
Check-In 2:00PM
Check-Out 12:00PM
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and fire rings. There are 2 single vault toilets and 1 double vault. Drinking water is provided from…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…single vault toilets and 1 double vault. Drinking water is provided from two hand pump wells. Yukwah…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Hiking
- Night sky · 554th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- Spotty
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 14 km away
- Patchy color
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.
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
21 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 21 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 20 of the 21 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | 47 ft | $25 | ||
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 58 ft | 161 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 42 ft | 189 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 42 ft | 199 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 55 ft | 264 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 44 ft | 224 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 47 ft | 282 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 44 ft | 242 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 116 ft | 276 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 82 ft | 205 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 169 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 266 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 164 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 65 ft | 212 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 65 ft | 254 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 67 ft | 420 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 67 ft | 404 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 96 ft | 461 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 72 ft | 487 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 97 ft | 230 ft | $25–$50 |
| YUKWAH CAMPGROUND | 020-Host | host pad | 40 ft | 184 ft | 104 ft | $25–$50 |
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.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Trout Creek Campground - Willamette (OR)Willamette National Forest · 0.5 mi
Longbow Organization GroupWillamette National Forest · 1.5 mi
Fernview Group SiteWillamette National Forest · 2.0 mi
House Rock CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 4.7 miSevenmileWillamette National Forest · 6.4 miFrom Sweet Home, OR, follow Highway 20 east for 21 miles and look for signs for Yukwah 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 night of the open season: typical October night 39°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 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
Yukwah Campground 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…”