Waxmyrtle Campground

Most sites are good for RV's but #16 has a lot of green space for tents as do some others. Only the first 1-10 ish sites are close to water. We thought it would be a good spot to put in kayaks, but not so much. It was still a great time and we really enjoyed going to the Sea Lion Caves and Heceta Lighthouse in lieu of boating. Be aware, #16 is next to the bathrooms, which are infrequently visited because I guess RV folks use their own, but there is a bright light on the back of the building all through the night. GREAT camp host! And the hike to the beach was beautiful, wish I had more time to hike up and down the beach (wet sand only!) Also, for some reason, the RV across from us ran an insanely loud generator ALL NIGHT. No other RV's did this and the OGV's were silent after 10pm so they didn't bother us at all.

Great stay; close to dunes and beach.

Our campsite had a good separation from next door campsites because of the dense shrubbery. Clean bathrooms and campsites. We had some coverage with Verizon. It's a great paddle up to Siltcoos Lake and down to the beach on kayaks. Can be shallow depending on tide. The bank was not ideal for launching kayaks and varies alot with the tides. You can hear the ATV's in the distance so I wouldn't call it a quiet campground. Overall, a great place to camp, especially when it was hot in the valley.

Wonderful campground, nice large private sites, quiet campers. A super location near but not on the beach. About a 3/4 mi walk to a very quiet beach, or you can drive a short distance to the parking lot and walk over the dunes.

Waxmyrtle Campground is a nice facility in a great location in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The staff made a great effort to keep the facilities clean and well-maintained. The sites are spacious, and ours felt quite private. The Siltcoos River was close by. The Waxmyrtle Trail led a mile through the dunes to a lovely section of beach that was uncrowded because not that many people want to hike a mile through the dunes. There is another dunes train called Chief Tsiltcoos right across the access road, and a third trail follows an old oxbow of the river, now a wildlife haven slowly becoming a meadow. Our party enjoyed kayaks and paddleboards on the river, from the lake to the ocean surf.

The only downside was that, if there are shower facilities, they were closed while we were there. Well, and this is next to an OHV recreation area, so if you are hoping for quiet wilderness sounds, you'll be hearing dune buggies and ATVs instead.

For us, it was a blessing. While it was 115 degrees in Portland, it never got warmer than 82 along the Siltcoos, and was mostly in the 60s-70s.

Awesome campground. Very quiet, friendly camp hosts and super clean restrooms. We will be back!

Great location, most sites have a lot of privacy even though they're pretty close together. Not many mosquitos in late June when we went. ATV noise from dunes is ever present during the day, but fairly distant and didn't really bother me. Kayaking is excellent, although the launching point from campground (behind sites 4 and 5 or under the bridge) was fairly muddy. Bathrooms clean and well stocked. No glass recycling on site, but aluminum recycling was available. Snowy Plover nesting closes off large swaths of the beach during part of the year.

My favorite river to kayak

The site we stayed in was excellent, clean, shady, and close to the estuary. We enjoyed walking along the water, even down to but not on the beach, and given the odious heat wave we came from, the cool temperatures were a relief. Less enjoyable were the dune buggies (though we've been in much noisier places) and the fireworks. We would recommend this campground to others and would return ourselves.

This is one of my favorite campgrounds in Oregon. We go for a week every year. There are so many positives about this campground: the proximity to Florence and the rest of the central coast, the trails, the river, the wildlife, the beautiful beach full of gulls, shorebirds, agates and more.