Agency-listedUSFSUnpriced · confirmRoad season: open (MVUM)
Spinreel Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 43.56973, -124.20381
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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 — Spinreel Campground · Siuslaw National Forest · OR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 1095000 (Eel Cr Wk Ctr), 200 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 1095000 (Eel Cr Wk Ctr), 200 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 1095000 (Eel Cr Wk Ctr): “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 →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Spinreel Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 18 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Spinreel CampgroundNIFC · 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 Spinreel Campground · 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
- HHardware2 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- FFuel2 mi
- WWater2 mi
- OOutfitter8 mi
- PPropane10 mi
- EVEV fast charger10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- RxPharmacy11 mi
- +Urgent care11 mi
- MMechanic13 mi
- DDump14 mi
- ShShower19 mi
- AAir-up27 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 2 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 — Spinreel Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
18 ft
Ground slope
1.1% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.1 mi · main line
State
OR
Coordinates
43.56973, -124.20381
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Spinreel Campground · Siuslaw National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSaunders Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Tenmile Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townTenmile · ~0.6 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.1 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~2.5 mi
- FuelShell · ~11.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationRV Waste Disposal · ~13.8 mi
- GroceriesLakeside McKay's Market · ~1.6 mi
- PharmacySafeway · ~11.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicLower Umpqua Hospital · ~9.3 mi
- HardwareHennick's Lakeside Market · ~1.5 mi
EV charging — from Spinreel Campground · Siuslaw National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger10.0 mi straight-line NE — WCEH Reedsport · 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 reach5 within 25 mi · 16 within 50 · 65 within 100 · 199 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)14.1 mi — Coos Bay, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Coos Bay
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)2.7 mi — William M. Tugman State Park, Reedsport, OR (at a public site) · RIVIAN_WAYPOINTS · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- 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 73429 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Spinreel Campground · Siuslaw National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomSpinreel Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Flush restroomSpinreel Boating Site · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSpinreel Day Use Staging Area · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletJohn Dellenback Dunes · ~1.3 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Spinreel Campground · Siuslaw National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Saunders Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 1.1% — flat. 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.
- Rail line mapped ~0.1 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 Spinreel Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Spinreel Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Spinreel Sand Camping site 60~0.2 mi · fee
- Spinreel Sand Camping site 58~0.5 mi · fee
- Spinreel Sand Camping site 61~1.1 mi · fee
- Spinreel Sand Camping site 63~1.2 mi · fee
The unit that manages Spinreel Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Spinreel Campground are set by Siuslaw National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Spinreel Campground
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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 Spinreel Campground
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 — Spinreel Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Power off-grid →All field notes →