Fishermens Bend

My first visit to Fishermen's Bend two summers ago was horrid, all-night parties, smoke, and limited wheelchair access. I said I would give it another go, and I did. I learned where the best sites were (I don't advise camping near the playground,) and my service dog and I took off exploring with full batteries. We found a wonderful wheelchair accessible overlook to the river, our favorite spot now, and new paved trails. Wheelchair users are supposed to fish from that overlook, but unless you're fishing for rocks, it doesn't go out long enough and the railing is too high. The staff are nice and helpful, and they are taking the unleashed dog issue seriously now. The only shower I could use with my wheelchair was in River Loop. Go in the fall, when the kids are back in school, and Detroit Lake is emptied out into the river; it's beautiful with lots of duck families. Supposedly, you can find deer down the unpaved trail past the accessible overlook. Champoeg State Park has wheelchair-accessible deer. Fishermen's Bend is one of our favorite campgrounds, now, right behind Champoeg State Park (more paved trails, even to the General Store and museum.) There's plenty of shopping in Stayton, only 16 miles shy of the park on Hwy 22, something I wish I had known at the beginning. Maybe someday they'll put in a sidewalk from Fishermen's Bend to Mill City, so wheelchair users could go pick up a pizza, ice cream, Subway, or mail a post card. Not everyone has a toad. The way my service dog acts when we pull into Fishermen's Bend versus Detroit Lake tells me everything I need to know -- paved trails, beautiful river, full hookups, accessible shower, and friendly staff = awesome!

Excellent park. Great hosts and beautifully maintained. If you use satellite recommendation is to confirm satellite line of site. There are many trees and fairly dense forest.

We LOVE this park. Always clean and well maintained. Love the trails and look forward to our next trip.

1rst visit, very nice beautiful view of the water. Will be returning in 2020

We always find the camp caretakers to be friendly and helpful as well as the staff at the office. Fishermen's Bend is a great launching pad for "exploring" the Detroit Lake area. Lots of hikes available and the ammenities along the river are great.

Always clean and well maintained. Just a nice, family campground

Staff and Camp hosts are courteous and helpful.

Clean campground, nice walking trails, peaceful

It was a wonderful time, me my wife and two younger sons stayed two nights. The cabin was very spacious. Bigger then other ones we have stayed in. It rained when we were there so we were in the cabin a lot, but it was great. The park ranger was very nice and friendly. The only thing I will say that I would say I didn’t like was the shower in the men’s, the water never got warm. So we had to take a cold shower. We are looking forward to goin back this summer.

Have a 38ft. Diesel pusher. We had a very pleasant stay. The camp host, Bob, was outstsnding. Unbelievable that the camp host crew were out every morning cleaning up, blowing the roadways off and taking care of the area. We were impressed. The only negative to the camp was the spaces that were long enough for our rig were by no means level. The guys in the front office were great about letting us try to find another spot and even went around the camp showing us the available one but the space we had was the better of what was available. Even the camp host had blocks under his jacks with the front of his motor home way up.