Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27
OHV / 4×4 · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 43.88250, -124.14026
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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 — Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27 · Siuslaw National Forest · OR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 1076000 (Lagoon C.G.), 0.2 mi from the pin. The MVUM lists it as asphalt surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 1076000 (Lagoon C.G.), 0.2 mi from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 1076000 (Lagoon C.G.): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; 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 →
What the record says about the site — Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27 · Siuslaw National Forest · OR
- Reservation required
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 26 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27NIFC · 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 Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27 · Siuslaw National Forest · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail1 mi
- WWater3 mi
- ShShower3 mi
- DDump4 mi
- FFuel5 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- OOutfitter5 mi
- HHardware7 mi
- MMechanic7 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- LLaundry8 mi
- RxPharmacy8 mi
- +Urgent care8 mi
- PPropane13 mi
- AAir-up49 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27
Access
OHV / 4×4
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
26 ft
Ground slope
4.9% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~3.0 mi · main line
State
OR
Coordinates
43.88250, -124.14026
Cost
Fee · priced on the land manager's own page (recreation.gov, read 2026-09-18)
Nearby & resupply — around Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27 · Siuslaw National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSiltcoos Lagoon · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townWestlake · ~1.3 mi
- Nearest rail line~3.0 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~3.0 mi
- FuelFuelgood · ~4.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationRV Dump Station · ~3.5 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~4.6 mi
- PharmacyRite Aid · ~8.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicPeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical Center · ~6.3 mi
- HardwareHennick's Lakeside Market · ~21.1 mi
EV charging — from Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27 · Siuslaw National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger7.3 mi straight-line N — WCEH Florence · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 12 within 50 · 84 within 100 · 289 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)8.8 mi — Fred Meyer - Tesla Supercharger, Florence
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)6.0 mi — 1202 Bay St, Florence, OR · LOOP · J1772 · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Park Motel and Cabins - Tesla Destination, Florence, 4.6 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 73419 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27 · Siuslaw National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomLagoon Campground · ~0.2 mi SW · USFS
- Flush restroomLagoon Trailhead · ~0.2 mi SW · USFS
- Flush restroomWaxmyrtle Trailhead · ~0.4 mi SW · USFS
- Flush restroomDriftwood Ii · ~0.4 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27 · Siuslaw National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Siltcoos Lagoon as a perennial lake or pond, ~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 4.9% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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.
- Rail line mapped ~3.0 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27 elsewhere
Other camps near Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Siltcoos Sand Camping site 28~0.1 mi · fee
- Siltcoos Sand Camping site 30~0.2 mi · fee
- Lagoon Campground~0.2 mi
- Driftwood Ii~0.4 mi · fee
The unit that manages Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27 are set by Siuslaw National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27
Fee note
$10 a night per the Recreation.gov page, read 18 Sep 2026: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/234194
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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.
Agency page
fs.usda.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
likely OHV (only a rough 4wd track in) — confirm | Fee 2026-09-18: $10 per night, by site type and season (Recreation.gov rates table). Source: https://www.recreation.gov/api/camps/campgrounds/234194/rates (fee_backfill, figure verified on that page).
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27
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 — Siltcoos Sand Camping site 27
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Forest road numbers →Reading the aerial →All field notes →