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Whispering Falls Campground is an excellent outdoor retreat designed for campers more interested in a remote experience. Guests are greeted with grand, mature cedars and Douglas fir trees as they drive into the campground. The Coffin Mountain Trail Area is located nearby, with splendid trails to explore like the Coffin Lookout and Bugaboo Ridge Trails. Recreation Anglers enjoy fishing for rainbow trout on the river. Among the many options for hiking and biking trails, the Mt. Jefferson-Pamelia Lake Trail Area is bound to please all types. Hikers looking for a challenging trail will enjoy the Minto Mountain Trail. Facilities This campground has 16 sites, 10 of which are reservable. Sites have picnic tables, grills and easy access to the vault toilets. Drinking water spigots are spread throughout the campground. Most campsites offer views of the river. Natural Features Whispering Falls is located along the North Santiam River at an elevation of 2,000 feet. Surrounding vegetation includes hemlock, rhododendron and fern, among the towering conifers. The campground is in the North Santiam Travel Corridor of the Willamette National Forest. The forest covers 1.6 million acres on the western slopes of the Cascade Range. Nearby Attractions Detroit Lake provides plenty of opportunity for water recreation like boating, water skiing and kayaking. The Marion Forks Fish Hatchery down the highway, along Marion and Horn Creeks, is an interesting place to visit. Here, visitors can see rainbow trout, summer steelhead and spring chinook being harvested. ADA Access: N
From Detroit, Oregon follow Highway 22 southeast for 8.3 miles to Whispering Falls Campground on the right.
Not a ton of stuff to do here. Swimming is only 6-10 miles down the road. Overall, our group had a good time. The outer section towards the highway can be noisy. Most sites are large and have quite a bit of foliage in between. Vault toilets were immaculate, the roadway is pretty rough in a few spots.
Camp host was helpful, but we told him my brother was just stopping by to say hi. 10 minutes later and put a ticket on his car saying he had to pay.
These types of campsites are getting extremely expensive for what you get in return. I imagine if it goes up anymore I'll probably just camp in my back yard. You are paying $21 usd for a vault toilet, a spicket, and a parking spot. Not to mention 9 dollars if anyone just stops by to say hi.
Great hidden little campground with four "first come first serve" sights, that are against the river. A lovely little waterfall across the river adds to the quaintness of the campground.
After being disappointed by not getting to Horseshoe Lake to camp, and a very rude, unhelpful camp host at the next campground (Cove Creek), we wound up here. Ray and (I think) Barbara, the camp hosts were very helpful and friendly. We stayed at spot # 4, which was an amazing area. This will definitely be a goto place for us in the future! Always nice when the unexpected turns out to be a great adventure!
Just beautiful!clean friendly and secluded campground with all but 1 site right on the Santiam river...clean bathrooms,potable water throughout,wood for sale!great fishing...im going again!!!
This campground is small, some spots are reserve only but there are first come/first serve spaces as well. We stayed in space 7 and it was perfect for one large tent and two medium tents. It has an easy path that leads directly down to the river. At the rivers edge we discovered 1 spot that was a combination of sand and rocks and 2 sandy beaches to place our towels on. We LOVED it here!! Great camp host, Sergio, that took awesome care of the bathrooms everyday!
