Eel Creek Campground
nearest town: Lakeside OR
part of: Siuslaw National Forest
A Forest Service Campground in the Oregon Coast region.
Number of visits: 2
GPS: 43.5892,-124.1877
Bathroom: yes • Water: yes
quiet, except for the crows. Arrived at 3-ish on Thursday, plenty of sites. Right next to the dunes, the cool thing to do here is head due west into the dunes. The idea of walking to the beach is very appealing, but a steep hill and two miles of dunes is a lot of sand to slog through.
Notes on each visit (posted cost • senior cost):
This coastal underbrush is really dense. Each picnic table/tent site is carved out of the solid underbrush and feels like a million miles from anywhere.
A short but strenuous walk on the trail across from the bathroom takes you into the sand dunes. Walking up a steep sand hill is exhausting, but you come out pretty high up in the dues with a spectacular sunset.