The hardest Oregon campgrounds to book

Name: How fast Oregon campsite cancellations get re-booked
Creator: CampSage

The best Oregon campsites are “sold out” months out — but people cancel constantly. The real question isn’t whether a spot opens, it’s how long it lasts before someone else grabs it. We scan every Oregon campground on recreation.gov and Oregon State Parks several times a day and log the check at which each site frees up — and the check at which it is gone again. Here’s what that reveals.

At Perry South Campground, half the cancellations we logged were already gone by the time we looked again — within 23.8 hrs. You have hours, not days.

⏱️ Fastest-vanishing cancellations

For half the openings we logged, the site was already re-booked by our next check — this is how long that took. Lower means you have to move faster.

#	Campground	Gone within	Openings measured
1	Perry South Campground	23.8 hrs	22
2	Fish Lake Campground - Rogue River	23.9 hrs	28
3	Trout Creek Campground - Willamette (OR)	24.0 hrs	54
4	Sheep Springs Horse Camp	24.0 hrs	32
5	Ogden Group	24.0 hrs	37
6	Candle Creek Campground	24.0 hrs	31
7	Humbug Campground	24.0 hrs	42
8	Lost Lake Resort And Campground	24.0 hrs	90
9	Tollgate	24.0 hrs	30
10	Stone Creek Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)	24.0 hrs	53
11	Pine Rest Campground	24.0 hrs	42
12	Riverside Campground (Deschutes National Forest, OR)	24.0 hrs	36

🔄 Where cancellations happen most (best odds if you watch)

These Oregon parks turn over the most — set an alert and your chances are highest here.

#	Campground	Openings/week
1	Lost Lake Resort And Campground	6.8
2	Tillicum	6.2
3	Oxbow Regional Park	5.6
4	Eel Creek Campground	5.3
5	Cold Water Cove - Willamette NF (OR)	5.3
6	Susan Creek Campground	5.3
7	Lepage Park	5.3
8	Paradise In Oregon	5.2
9	Crescent Lake Campground	5.2
10	Link Creek	5.2

Methodology. CampSage scans every Oregon campground on recreation.gov and Oregon State Parks continuously and appends an event each time a site opens or fills. This ranking covers 65.4 days of continuous tracking since August 2, 2026 (6,426 matched open→re-booked events); it updates daily and gets more robust as the record grows. Parks shown have at least 20 measured openings, because a park with a handful ranks on noise rather than on demand. These figures are upper bounds, not stopwatch readings: we observe checks, not moments, and our checks are hours apart, so a site retaken ten minutes after it opened and one that lasted four hours can land in the same bucket. Read “gone within 4 hrs” as “already taken by the time we looked again.” The median is the middle value, so one unusually long-lived opening cannot skew it. Journalists / researchers: happy to share the underlying data or a longer window — about CampSage.

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