Oregon Coast Camping: The Best State Park and Forest Campgrounds, North to South

The Oregon coast has more than a dozen big state park campgrounds on or near the ocean, and the Siuslaw National Forest adds smaller ones around Cape Perpetua and in the Oregon Dunes. Almost all of them take reservations, most stay open all winter, and many have yurts for rainy nights. The catch is demand: the best summer sites go six months ahead, on the morning they open.

Oregon coast campgrounds at a glance

North to south, the main state park campgrounds on or near the ocean:

Every one of these also has a hiker/biker camp except Loeb. For the yurts and cabins in detail, see our guide to Oregon coast yurts.

How booking works

Oregon State Parks runs its reservations through oregonstateparks.reserveamerica.com (or 800-452-5687):

• Six months ahead, to the day: book on November 8 and the farthest arrival is May 7. New dates open at 6 a.m. every day.
• $10 reservation fee per site, waived for same-day reservations. You can book an open site online the same day up to 11:59 p.m. (5:59 p.m. for yurts and cabins).
• No first-come campgrounds on the coast. Every coast state park campground takes reservations; unreserved sites are booked online on the day, including from the park.
• Stay limit: 14 nights within any 30-night period in one campground.
• Check-in 4 p.m., check-out 1 p.m. You must be 18 to reserve.
• Usually 8 people per site (6 at some), one RV per site. An extra vehicle is $10 a night; a towed car is free.
• If nothing's open, set an availability notification on ReserveAmerica (up to five at a time).

What it costs

Rates took effect May 1, 2026 and include lodging tax. The 29 busiest parks, which include every state park campground above, charge the top of their range from May through September and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights all year. Cabins and yurts are at the top of the range everywhere.

Non-residents pay 25% more, a surcharge set in state rule. Fort Stevens, Nehalem Bay, Beverly Beach, South Beach, Honeyman and Harris Beach also charge $10 to use the dump station, once per stay for registered campers.

North coast

Fort Stevens State Park

Best for: families and long stays. One of the largest public campgrounds in the country, at the mouth of the Columbia River near Astoria. 174 full-hookup sites (36 pull-through), 302 electric, 6 tent sites, 9 hike-in primitive sites, 15 yurts and 11 deluxe cabins, with hot showers. Reservations are required. The park has a freshwater lake (Coffenbury Lake) with swimming and a 2-mile loop trail, 15 miles of multi-use trails, an earthen Civil War fort and WWII gun batteries, and a historic shipwreck on the beach. It's the northern trailhead of the Oregon Coast Trail.

The South Loops are closed while utilities are rebuilt, and a new tent loop is planned.

Nehalem Bay State Park

Best for: the beach on a sand spit. On a 4-mile spit between Nehalem Bay and the ocean, a dune away from the beach, with 265 electric sites with water and 16 yurts (9 pet-friendly), showers, a 1.8-mile bike path, kayaking, crabbing and clamming in the bay. It also has a horse camp (17 primitive sites) and a rare fly-in camp beside a 2,400-foot airstrip. A new restroom and shower building opened in fall 2025. It's the closest state park campground to Cannon Beach, which is about 15 miles north.

Cape Lookout State Park

On the Netarts sand spit, with the 5-mile round-trip Cape Trail to the tip of Cape Lookout. Closed since August 3, 2026 for utility and repaving work and dune reinforcement, including the campground, day-use area and hiker/biker camp; Oregon State Parks expects work through spring 2027. When it reopens it has 38 full-hookup sites, 170 tent sites, 13 yurts and 6 deluxe cabins. The Cape Trailhead lot stays open.

Central coast

Devil's Lake State Recreation Area

The only coast campground inside a city: in Lincoln City, a 10-minute walk to the beach over a boardwalk and across Highway 101, on a 685-acre freshwater lake. 28 full-hookup sites with cable TV, 5 electric, 54 tent sites and 10 yurts (5 pet-friendly). Open May 1 to December 1; it closes for winter on December 1, 2026 and partly reopens May 1, 2027.

Beverly Beach State Park

Best for: tent campers who want the beach a short walk away. In a forest along Spencer Creek between Cape Foulweather and Yaquina Head, north of Newport; some sites are steps from miles of beach. 53 full-hookup, 76 electric (32 pull-through), 128 tent sites and 21 yurts. Three group tent areas, firewood sold daily. Some loops' restrooms close October 1 to spring.

South Beach State Park

Just south of the Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport, with a paved trail along the South Jetty, a disc golf course and access to a broad sandy beach. 227 electric sites, 60 tent sites and 27 yurts, the most on the coast; 24 of them are accessible. Handy for the Oregon Coast Aquarium and Hatfield Marine Science Center.

Beachside State Recreation Site

Best for: sites right on the sand. A small campground south of Waldport where every site is seconds from a wide beach. 32 electric, 42 tent sites and 2 yurts, one vehicle per site. Open March 15 to October 31.

Cape Perpetua and Tillicum Beach (Forest Service)

The Siuslaw National Forest runs three campgrounds between Waldport and Florence, all reservable on Recreation.gov:

• Tillicum Beach: most of its 61 sites look over the ocean. $39 a night, $51 with electric (hookup sites aren't on the waterfront). Flush toilets, no showers. Open all year, and some sites are first come.
• Cape Perpetua: 38 sites on Recreation.gov, including a group site, along Cape Creek in old-growth spruce, with flush toilets and the Cape Perpetua trail system, tidepools and visitor center a walk away. $39 a night, March to October, some sites first come.
• Rock Creek: 15 sites in big spruce near the beach, vault toilets. $36 a night, early May to early September, some first come.

Interagency Senior and Access passes take 50% off the site fee at all three.

Carl G. Washburne Memorial State Park

North of Florence and Heceta Head, on the inland side of Highway 101 along China Creek. 50 full-hookup sites, 5 electric, 7 walk-in tent sites uphill (closed seasonally) and 2 yurts. Trails from both ends of the campground lead to the beach, the Hobbit Trail and the Heceta Head Lighthouse (6 miles round trip).

Sutton Campground (Forest Service, 4 miles north of Florence) has 80 sites, some with electric hookups: $31 a night, $41 with electric. Loops A and B are open all year.

The Oregon Dunes

Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park

Best for: lakes and sand dunes. The second-largest Oregon state park campground, 3 miles south of Florence on two freshwater lakes, with dunes sloping into Cleawox Lake. 47 full-hookup, 121 electric, 187 tent sites and 10 yurts, all reservation only. The beach is 2 miles away across the dunes, with no marked trail. From October to April, ATVs can drive onto the dunes from H Loop, and OHV noise carries from May to September.

Closed January 1 to February 28, 2027 for water system work; several loops also close for the season until May 21.

Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area

The Forest Service campgrounds in the dunes between Florence and Coos Bay are reservation only on Recreation.gov (or 877-444-6777), and Interagency Senior and Access passes take 50% off:

Umpqua Lighthouse and William M. Tugman

• Umpqua Lighthouse State Park (Winchester Bay): a small, quiet campground on Lake Marie, half a mile from the Umpqua River Lighthouse. 12 full-hookup, 8 electric, 23 tent sites, and the coast's only deluxe yurts (6, plus 2 accessible deluxe yurts, with private bathrooms and kitchenettes) plus rustic yurts and log cabins.
• William M. Tugman State Park (Lakeside): 93 electric sites and 16 yurts (8 pet-friendly) in shore pines on Eel Lake, good for bass fishing and paddling, less than a mile from the dunes.

South coast

Sunset Bay State Park

Best for: a sheltered swimming beach. Near Coos Bay, on a cove protected by sea cliffs, with trails to Shore Acres and Cape Arago. 30 full-hookup, 35 electric, 65 tent sites and 8 yurts (4 pet-friendly).

Bullards Beach State Park

Two miles north of Bandon at the mouth of the Coquille River, sheltered in shore pines, with a paved path to the beach, a lighthouse and a horse camp. 103 full-hookup, 82 electric and 13 yurts. Its hiker/biker camp has lockers with solar USB charging. In winter, A Loop is closed until May 17, 2027 and B Loop until March 15, 2027; C Loop and the yurts stay open.

Cape Blanco State Park

At Oregon's westernmost point, with the oldest standing lighthouse on the coast (1870) and the Victorian Hughes House. 4 full-hookup, 52 electric sites and 4 cabins, a horse camp and 8 miles of trails. No dump station.

Humbug Mountain State Park

In a forest along Brush Creek below one of the highest headlands on the coast, with a trail under the highway to a sandy beach and a 5.5-mile hike to the 1,765-foot summit. 39 electric and 56 tent sites, no yurts.

Harris Beach State Park

Best for: sea stacks and tidepools. Just north of Brookings, looking out at Bird Island, a breeding site for tufted puffins. 65 full-hookup, 29 electric, 54 tent sites and 6 yurts. Some loops close in winter. The 12-mile Samuel H. Boardman corridor starts 3 miles north.

Alfred A. Loeb State Park

Eight miles inland from Brookings on the Chetco River, in a grove of myrtlewood trees. 48 electric sites and 3 rustic log cabins facing the river, and a trail toward the northernmost redwood grove in the US. Good for fall and winter salmon and steelhead fishing.

Hiker/biker camps and the Oregon Coast Trail

Most coast state parks have a hiker/biker camp for people arriving on foot or bicycle with no vehicle: first come, first served, 2 consecutive nights in a 7-day period, at a per-person rate. Fort Stevens marks the northern trailhead of the Oregon Coast Trail, and Ecola State Park's Hiker's Camp on Tillamook Head has three Adirondack-style shelters for hikers only.

Free camping and the beach

Oregon's beaches are public, and camping on the beach is allowed in many places above the high tide line, but not on beaches next to a state park, inside Seaside, Cannon Beach, Manzanita, Rockaway Beach, Lincoln City, Newport, Bandon, Gold Beach or Brookings, on the Clatsop County shore from the Columbia River to Tillamook Head, or in signed snowy plover nesting areas. Overnight parking isn't allowed at state park day-use areas and waysides.

The Siuslaw National Forest allows dispersed camping at least 200 feet from developed roads, trails and facilities, for 14 days in any 60, and the Oregon Dunes have reservable sand camping sites. See free camping in Oregon for the rules, and the dispersed camping guide for how it works.

Before you go

• Pack for wind and rain in any month. Oregon State Parks advises warm coats even in midsummer.
• Buy firewood at or near the campground; don't bring it from home.
• Campfires only in fire rings, or on open sand away from grass and driftwood where beach fires are allowed. No fireworks on beaches or in campgrounds.
• Check the park page for closures before you go: the coast loses loops to winter, storms and construction.
• Quiet hours are 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., and dogs stay on a 6-foot leash in campgrounds.

For more of the state, see our Oregon camping guides, Crater Lake camping and free camping in Oregon.