Eightmile Campground, Dufur OR
| Address | Rail Hollow Rd, Dufur, OR |
| Website | www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/mthood/recarea |
| Categories | Hiking Area, Campground, Park |
| Rating | 5 5 reviews |
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Eightmile Campground reviews
5This is a wonderful campground with great trails for hiking and biking! A perfect family place!
This is a very relaxing campground.
Good place to go to relax away from city life.
Its so safe the kiddos were able to run around from site 1 to the hosts camp and back without having to worry.
The hosts are very friendly.
This is a great campground.
Visited here Monday 11/4/19. Parked at the picnic area at Eight Mile Campground. You need a northwest Forrest pass, or an America the Beautiful pass, or pre-purchase a day pass before you park here as there is no fee pay box here. Bathroom was pretty clean, but no tp. Lots of picnic areas with BBQ pits.
I took Brooks and a FR in (in good condition) and FR and dufur valley road (in good/ok condition. Paved. This road is closed December 15th to March 15th.).
Forrest Service is doing controlled burns close to trail on Eight Mile Loop November 4th to November 8th so you may encounter thick ashy smoke in the lower areas like we did.
Hiked the more difficult way first (which is moderate/easy, some up hill) side first. With a detour to check out Five Mile Butte Lookout. (The top of the lookout is gated and locked so unless you are renting it out there is no access up top. There is a pulley system, but it's broken. A pretty terrible smelling open pit toilet as well.) The lookout was gorgeous at sunrise and bonus there was no one staying there when we went so we got to walk up and check out as much of the lookout as we could.
This area is very beautiful. When you get to the road you have to road walk before the creek side trail begins. Eight Mile Creek was mostly frozen over but very beautiful. The Larches are loosing their needles. About a mile in on the creek side is where the controlled burns are happening on both sides of the trail.
There are blow downs on this trail.
Good place to bring young children.
7.36 miles with 1091 ft elevation gain.
All I can say is - please don’t go here. I want it all to myself.
Also called "Eightmile Crossing. " An excellent little 19-site campground. Sites are nicely spaced, mostly along Eightmile Creek, for good whitenoise. Very little light pollution, so you'll see a lot of stars, but also very wooded, so views are constrained. A particularly friendly doe may make an appearance—regular campers mentioned her visiting them last year as well. Clean toilets, no piped water. If there are no spots here, try Pebble Ford nearby.
The confusingly named "Eightmile Loop Trail" is a 6.2 mile long hike/bike trail that begins/ends at the day use area of the campsite.