Riverside Campground

Great camping spot me and my girlfriend pulled into the first come first serve camp site and it was available. It came with a fire pit, picnic table and a community toilet that 4-5 other campsites use. This site was perfect for us very lowkey and away from most other people very spacious and felt safe

We booked this not knowing this was a walk-in site only. Nothing said walk-in site only. Just that it was a tent site, which usually means you park next to your site. We have a Jeep with a rooftop tent. So no tent to walk in. We arrived after being on trail all week and had to abandon the site and get a hotel. Asked for a refund and we received a partial even though we screen shot the info. We couldn't use our site. Since then the info seems to be updated which is good. But it should be BOLD.

Forested Campground in Willamette National Forest on the banks of a river. However, location location location. If you camp here you’ll want to get a spot on the river side and you can hear the rushing of the creek.

However, the whole campground is right next to Highway 22, so even if you are lucky enough to be camping on the river side and hearing the river you may still hear the freeway. If you are stuck on the inland spots you literally can walk out of your tent and onto the highway within 10 feet.

Drinking water available on site along with vault toilets. Mostly tent campers and small RVs or trailers. Very cheap as its on National Forest land.

We've been to a lot of similar campgrounds in Oregon that are managed by the National Forest. These are basic, cheap (normally $10-$15), forested campgrounds right off a highway that offer basic amenities such as water and pit toilets. Sometimes you get lucky and there's an amazing view or lake, or sometimes you're unlucky and it's noisy and too close to the highway.

In the case of Riverside Campground not too far outside Sisters, Oregon, you have both: spots on the upper-hill side are often right off the highway, to the extent that one side of your spot is literally a busy road. On the down-hill side, it's the opposite, with lovely green, forested sites right on the river. Both areas have noise during the nights from the road, but the spots closer to the freeway are obviously louder.

All in all, there's other campgrounds in the area I'd head to first (the Marion Forks fish hatchery campground is pretty cool), but if you're going to stay here, choose your site wisely.

Very nice. Easily accessed from main road. River is beautiful.

This campground is an easy drive from the Portland area. Would recommend getting ice, firewood, last minute items at the Ripplebrook Ranger Station as it's the last place to do so before the campground (15 minutes from campground). I was in space 12, which was very sunny and had little shade. It had a great trail, Riverside Trail, that had direct access from the campground and ran along the river. It was also close enough to Bagby Hot Springs where you could get up early and beat the weekend crowds.

The walk in sites here are pretty cool and great for an extended group that wants to camp together but have alot of space. All the walk in sites are separated from the rest of the campground. The river here is great for tubing. You do get some road noise at this campground. The sites are also very unevenly sized. We ended up with a sorta awkward tiny one that didn't have much privacy. Luckily everyone was pretty quiet during our few days here.

This is one of the better campgrounds along the Clackamas River in the Mt Hood Forest (and there are lots of campgrounds on this stretch of the river). All the campgrounds are pretty close to the road, but this one is near the end of the section of campgrounds, so it has fewer cars passing by. It is down a little from the road, too, which helps. The sites are pretty private but vary widely site to site. Unfortunately, the Oregon Parks site doesn't show pictures, so we picked a site blindly and it ended up being tiny (although we had 3 tents and 6 people). We made it work, but it wasn't ideal. The access to the river, and the fast current and little rapids do make it ideal, though. You can do the bit of river just by the site (which ends in a swimming hole near the camp host's site), or continue on down some small rapids and walk a trail back about a mile to the camp. It's the ideal campground for summer floating!

Riverside is a "primitive" campground directly on the banks of the Metolious River in the Camp Sherman area-- but I'd categorize it as primitive with convenience. The campground is just a few miles off of HWY 22, and about 10 miles away from Sisters (if you want to brunch while camping). The Camp Sherman General Store which is one of the greatest camp stores on the planet is a 20 minute walk from the campground on a riverside path (if you need an icecream sandwich, or a latte, or gluten free brownie mix). The sites are walk-in, but the car parking is about 50 yards from the sites -- so you can still easily access you car.

Each site is equipped with a picnic table, and fire ring. There are 2 pit toilets for the 16 campsites, and a 3rd at the Metolious Head a short walk away (the most primitive part about the experience). They were a bit smelly on our visit. There is access to a water pump for drinking water.

The sites are huge, and you can pay for additional tents and cars if you bring more than the max (I believe it was 6 campers and 1 car). We easily had 4 tents and 6 hammocks in the site with plenty of room.

Each site has a path to the river (which is freezing) and even though you can't see the river from your site, you can hear it all night long. You may also hear the coyotes.

From Riverside you're close to all the Camp Sherman hikes (it's also a hot spot for biking) as well as to Black Butte and Suttle Lake (warm enough for swimming). The campsite is dog friendly.