Waxmyrtle Campground

It was pretty noisy when we were there. No active host. Federal officials came by once to align a nearby party that was out of compliance. The nature volunteer was friendly and informative!

Great place to camp if you enjoy proximity to hiking trails, paddling and OHV recreation. Restroom facilities are a bit run-down and sometimes underserviced, but the camping environment is lovely. Not recommended if you are bothered by the sound of late-night OHV action in the nearby dunes, although they usually wrap up their activities by midnight.

site nice but no hot water

Wonderful campground along the Siltcoos River. Great separation between sires. Clean bathrooms, and plenty of hiking, kayaking, and biking opportunities. Loved loved this place. Will return.

We love this campground. It would have got 5 stars if it still had a posted map at the front board and self service checkin tickets for the site post and or dashboard.
These are campground basics.

Nice setting with a great sandy hiking trail to the beach. Would have been a higher rating, but it seems like the local population has no respect for others, as both our campsite and the one next to it had used toilet paper on the ground next to the bushes. This happened even though the bathroom was right across the street. There was a lot of other trash just left behind as well. You would think the people of Oregon would show a little more care for their beautiful state.

Bathrooms were clean and tent site was flat and soft. The site was cozy but not too small but lacked in privacy from neighbors. The site was full of trash which we didn't notice until the next morning, we woke up to flies buzzing around feeding on the garbage scattered everywhere. The campground overall seemed nice enough so it may have been campers before us leaving a mess. We normally like to wake up slow and grab coffee but we didn't have a real trash bag or gloves and didn't want to eat breakfast surrounded by trash and flies so we took off early.

This is likely not the fault of the host.. but when we got to our site after 10 PM someone else had set up camp. The entrance did state that the grounds were full but there weren't "reserved" tags so the couple assumed nobody was coming. Since it was so late and they had no where else to go we agreed to let them stay in the site as we aren't confrontational and felt uncomfortable telling them to leave. We didn't feel it was an emergency so we didn't bother the hosts, but I admit I lost some sleep worrying we would get fined for having an extra car/tent/people on the site with us.

We would consider camping here again although we will try to show up earlier and bring an extra trash bag/gloves to pick up the site in case it's dirty.

quiet, well spaced campsites with lots to do.

Most of the sites are small and should be advertised as shared sites. We were at site 38 and the adjoining site set-up their tent less than 5 ft from ours…

I especially enjoyed meeting and talking with your Wildlife Host. The fact that she has been there at Waxmyrtle for over 5 years says a whole lot to me.