Williamson River Campground

  There are so many nice places to boondock on Oregon but we had a few things to do that would be easier to accomplish at a flat campsite with a table so we scoped out a couple of the nearby public campgrounds.  Collier Memorial State Park, our first stop, is nice but the campsites are crammed together with very little room between the sites. We moved on to Williamson River Campground, a national forest campground just 1 1/2 miles down the road. Much better – large roomy sites in a mature forest of ponderosa pines. The pull through sites are long enough for any RV.

   Collier has easier access to the water plus Williamson River and Spring Creek converge near the campground so the river is much nicer. The river near Williamson is shallow and the trail to the water is overgrown.

   Don’t miss Collier State Park Logging Museum which is located on US 97 a little bit south of the road to the campgrounds. We visited this outdoor museum a few years ago and highly recommend it. Unfortunately even though the equipment and logging history is interesting wide scale clear cutting has devastated much of the old growth forest in Oregon.

   None of the campsites at Williamson River are accessible. The sites are surfaced with large, loose gravel making rolling around very difficult. The trail to the river from the day use parking lot is narrow, overgrown, and steep.  Campground  42.6586, -121.85489