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Poole Creek

POOLE CREEK
POOLE CREEK
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POOLE CREEK
POOLE CREEK

About Poole Creek

Poole Creek Campground is nestled in a forest of lodgepole pine, mountain hemlock and Shasta red fir, just south of the mouth of Poole Creek on the west shore of Lemolo Lake. The lake is the highest reservoir on the North Umpqua River at an elevation of 4,150 feet.

Number of accommodations: 61

Campground Amenities

  • Potable Water
    Potable Water
  • Lake Access
    Lake Access

Seasonal information

2026 (Current year)

2026 Season availability

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Currently closed - Opens on May 23

Sites & Availability

61 Sites Available

Site
Price
🚐 001, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 002, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 003, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 004, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 005, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 006, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 007, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 008, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 009, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 010, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 011, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 012, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 013, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 014, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 015, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 016, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 017, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 018, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 019, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 020, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 021, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 022, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 023, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 024, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 025, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 026, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 027, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 028, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 029, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 030, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 031, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 032, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 033, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 034, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 035, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 036, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 037, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 038, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 039, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 040, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 041, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 042, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 043, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 044, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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045, Loop: POOLE CREEK
12 guests · Campfire · Pet Friendly
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 046, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 047, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 048, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 049, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 050, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 051, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 052, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 053, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 054, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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055, Loop: POOLE CREEK
8 guests · Campfire · Pet Friendly
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 056, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 057, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 058, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 059, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
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🚐 060, Loop: POOLE CREEK
No Hookups
$30.00
/ per night
🚐 GROUP SITE 1, Loop: GROUP AREA
No Hookups
$100.00
/ per night

Reviews (108)

What Guests Are Saying

Poole Creek Campground serves as an excellent base for exploring Crater Lake, with a peaceful family-friendly atmosphere and attentive camp hosts. Many visitors appreciate the clean facilities, spacious campsites, and beautiful views of Lemolo Lake, making it a popular destination for summer camping and water activities. However, some guests noted issues with restroom cleanliness, noise from neighboring campers, and challenges with the reservation system, indicating room for improvement in certain areas.

Review Summary

4.0
108 reviews
5
46.3%
50
4
29.6%
32
3
10.2%
11
2
8.3%
9
1
5.6%
6

Tami S

Verified

July 23, 2023 Stayed at: 015, Loop: POOLE CREEK

2

Vault toilets had no toilet paper the whole stay. Reservoir had a beautiful view, but yellow algae was present at the time of my stay. Sites were not very level.

Terri N

Verified

July 18, 2023 Stayed at: 036, Loop: POOLE CREEK

5

Love it,

Bob S

Verified

July 14, 2023 Stayed at: 038, Loop: POOLE CREEK

2

The mosquitoes were horrible.
The water was perfect.
The camp host could use some improvement. Here are a few things I noticed that were unacceptable behavior on her part.
1. Allowing a small child to stand on the floor board of the golf cart while traveling throughout the campground while the host and another woman sat on the seat of the cart.
2. The host collected any unused firewood from each campsite when the guests departed from their scheduled stay. This firewood was then taken to the host site and added to her personal firewood collection.
3. She locked the gate to the group site when vacant. Then she would unlock the gate and collect the large amount of firewood that was stacked there and move it to her host site.
4. She seems to enforce the “dog on leash at all times” rule only when dogs were in view of her host site. The entire beach area was full of unleashed dogs and she only noticed a couple of dogs swimming in view of her camp site. She came to those campers and started screaming at them to keep their dogs on a leash yet 50 yards away were 6 dogs running free with nothing said to the owners

Shaun M

Verified

June 24, 2023 Stayed at: 023, Loop: POOLE CREEK

4

Great location, wonderful access to the water and the site I was in was well-shaded and spacious. The only downside, through no fault of the campground itself, was the abundance of mosquitos. Other than that, it was a very pleasant, fun experience and will definitely go back!

Linda C

Verified

June 22, 2023 Stayed at: GROUP SITE 1, Loop: GROUP AREA

4

We come up every year to the group campground and it has always been taken care of. This time, no one bothered to clean the bath room, and we ran out of toilet paper. We had to go get some from the camp host. Never before has this happened. By the time we left he bathroom was smelling very bad.

Donna H

Verified

September 8, 2022 Stayed at: 020, Loop: POOLE CREEK

5

Great campground. Hate the reservation system.

Tracee G

Verified

September 1, 2022 Stayed at: 036, Loop: POOLE CREEK

1

Aweful camping experience!! We left 4 days early. Submitted refund request twice, no response. Toilets were FULL, trash cans were FULL, there were dirty underwear at our site when we arrived, people screaming across the campground all hours of the night. Camp host didn't care about anything. Just wild lol. Certainly not a campground for a family camping trip.

Katherine H

Verified

August 28, 2022 Stayed at: 004, Loop: POOLE CREEK

2

Reservation has to be made 6 months in advance. When we stayed this time the host was useless.sites were not cleaned. the fire ring was full of trash.

Helen P

Verified

August 25, 2022 Stayed at: 021, Loop: POOLE CREEK

2

Algae bloom
Bathrooms need more frequent cleaning
Updated smoke alerts needed

Steven R

Verified

August 21, 2022 Stayed at: 039, Loop: POOLE CREEK

3

The campground itself was good. The campsites are nicely separated from each other, water and bathrooms were convenient. We had two issues that keep me from giving a higher rating. First, at this time of year and with warm weather there was a considerable amount of algae in the water so we did not feel comfortable swimming. The second problem was inconsiderate campers surrounding us. We had generators running for several hours each day throughout the 5 days we were there, starting around 6:00 am and running well past dark. At one point our neighboring campsite left their generator running for about 7 hours straight. The generator noise combined with loud talking neighbors definitely took away from the peaceful time we had hoped for. I wish the camp host or rangers would have at least enforced the quiet hours in the mornings; we had to sleep with earplugs just to be able stay in bed past 6:00.

Location Poole Creek

Address:
2020 Toketee Ranger Station Road
Idleyld Park, OR, 97447
United States

Latitude & Longitude: 43.31 / -122.2

Elevation: 1285 feet

Policies & Rules

Category About
General

Some individual sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Reservable and first-come first-serve sites are mixed throughout the campground.

General

Click here for more information about Umpqua National Forest

General

Don't Move Firewood: Please protect Pacific Northwest forests by preventing the spread of invasive species. Firewood can carry insects and diseases that can threaten the health of our western forests. You can make a difference by obtaining and burning your firewood near your camping destination. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.

General

Extra vehicle fee $5 per vehicle per night

General

No horses or stock allowed at the group site

General

Maximum vehicle length: 35 feet

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