Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Hard Rock
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 44.03613, -122.20124
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Hard Rock · Willamette National Forest · OR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 1900000 (Aufderheide Drive), 20 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as asphalt surface and maintenance level 5 – high degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 1900000 (Aufderheide Drive), 20 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 1900000 (Aufderheide Drive): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Hard Rock
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,824 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Hard RockNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Hard Rock · Willamette National Forest · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater1 mi
- ShShower4 mi
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- EVEV fast charger10 mi
- @Mail11 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- HHardware24 mi
- RxPharmacy24 mi
- +Urgent care24 mi
- DDump36 mi
- PPropane36 mi
- AAir-up36 mi
- LLaundry37 mi
- OOutfitter39 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 10 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Hard Rock
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,824 ft
Ground slope
6% · gentle
State
OR
Coordinates
44.03613, -122.20124
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Hard Rock · Willamette National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSouth Fork McKenzie River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Drinking waterWater · ~0.6 mi
- FuelChevron · ~9.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesBlue Sky Market · ~9.5 mi
- PharmacyOakridge Pharmacy · ~24.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicOrchid Health Oakridge Clinic · ~24.3 mi
- HardwareOakridge Hardware · ~24.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Hard Rock · Willamette National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger9.5 mi straight-line N — WCEH McKenzie, Blue River, OR · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 44 within 50 · 150 within 100 · 331 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)36.5 mi — Sisters, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Sisters
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)9.5 mi — WCEH McKenzie, Blue River, OR · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 73409 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Hard Rock · Willamette National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Portable toiletHard Rock · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletFrench Pete Campground · ~0.6 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletFrench Pete Trailhead · ~0.6 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCougar Crossing Campground · ~1.8 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Hard Rock · Willamette National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps South Fork McKenzie River as a perennial river, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 6% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (3 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Hard Rock elsewhere
Other camps near Hard Rock
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- French Pete Campground~0.6 mi · fee
- Cougar Crossing Campground~1.8 mi · fee
- Sunnyside~1.9 mi · fee
- Red Diamond~2.8 mi · fee
The unit that manages Hard Rock
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Hard Rock are set by Willamette National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Hard Rock
Stay limit
14 nights (Camping is not allowed more than 14 days in a 60 day period.)
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-22: this is a GROUP campground with no single-site rate at all, and the agency publishes three different group prices -- budget $38. The forest page contradicts itself: its structured fee box says Group Site $32 per night while the prose immediately below says Group Campsite $38 per group per night. recreation.gov's 2026 peak season (Apr 30 to Sep 6) charges a third figure, $35. Extra vehicles beyond two are $10 each per night, and the forest states that no passes are honored here. Quoting any of these as a nightly price for one tent would be wrong -- the whole site is rented as one unit. Our record calls this Hard Rock; the forest page is titled Hard Rock Group Campground. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/willamette/recreation/hard-rock-group-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/234216.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Hard Rock
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Hard Rock
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Dumping grey & black →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →