East Dunes
Its sites are reservable through Recreation.gov, camping costs Single Site: $25 per night, and it is open year-round. East Dunes is a National Forest campground near Tillamook, Oregon.
Reservable: Recreation.gov
- Managed by
- National Forest
- Cell service
- Spotty
East Dunes sits inside Siuslaw National Forest. Its dispersed-camping rule, ranger offices, and boundary are on publiclandsdb.com. It sits 0.6 miles outside the boundary of Clay Myers State Natural Area at Whalen Island; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary are on publiclandsdb.com.
Sand Lake Recreation Area dunes: About 1,076 acres of open coastal sand dunes for OHV riding next to the Pacific; the nearby 900-acre Sand Lake Estuary offers fishing, crabbing and kayaking.
Getting a site
- Managed by
- National Forest
- Reservations
- Recreation.gov Book a site
- Fee
- Single Site: $25 per night
- Booking window
- Up to 6 months ahead for sites 40-61; up to 14 days before arrival for sites 1-35
Sources: fs.usda.gov, accessed 2026-09-29; recreation.gov, accessed 2026-09-29
What's there
- ✓ Toilets
- ✓ Potable water
- ✓ Fire rings
On site: Toilets, potable water, and fire rings.
Rules
- Stay limit
- 14 days
Source: recreation.gov, accessed 2026-09-29
Access and cell service
- Cell service, reported
- Spotty
- Elevation
- 27 ft
Cell coverage by carrier (FCC map)
- AT&T
- 4G LTE
- T-Mobile
- No coverage at the campground; 4G LTE mapped about 0.1 mi away, 5G about 0.3 mi away
- Verizon
- 4G LTE
Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection, data as of December 31, 2025
Outdoor coverage each carrier reports to the FCC at this campground's map point, and the nearest mapped coverage within about half a mile. The FCC map only includes 4G LTE at 5/1 Mbps or better and 5G; a weaker signal, a text, or an emergency call may still get through, but don't count on it. These are carrier predictions, not measurements, and can be wrong either way: real service in canyons, under trees, and inside a tent or vehicle is often weaker. 5G speeds are the FCC's 7/1 and 35/3 Mbps tiers. This product uses the FCC Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the FCC.
45.2871, -123.9560 in Tillamook. Open in OpenStreetMap. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Season and winter services
East Dunes is open year-round .
Sources: epqs.nationalmap.gov, accessed 2026-09-29; fs.usda.gov, accessed 2026-09-29; recreation.gov, accessed 2026-09-29
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Around East Dunes
The nearest lake with a fishing page is Cape Meares Lake, whose mapped center point is 15 miles away in a straight line. Stocking record and species: Cape Meares Lake fishing on fishypedia.com.
Public land within 15 miles: Sitka Sedge State Natural Area (1.7 miles to its center) , Cape Lookout State Park (4.6 miles to its center) , Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area (4.9 miles to its center) , Bob Straub State Park (7.2 miles to its center) , and Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge (8.3 miles to its center) ; publiclandsdb.com has each unit's camping rules and boundary.
Reservable Sandbeach Reservable Whalen Island County Campground 
Reservable Webb County Campground More campgrounds: camping near Tillamook and campgrounds in Tillamook.
Sources
- apps.fs.usda.gov (all fields), accessed 2026-09-28
- epqs.nationalmap.gov (elevationFt), accessed 2026-09-29
- broadbandmap.fcc.gov (cellCoverage), accessed 2026-09-27
- fs.usda.gov (season, reservationSystem), accessed 2026-09-29
- recreation.gov (reservationSystem, reservationWindow, cellService, stayLimit, notableFeature, season), accessed 2026-09-29