Recreation in
Sweet Home, Oregon
Sweet Home, Oregon has many parks and campgrounds for visitors to enjoy. Since Sweet Home is close to the Santiam River, Foster Lake and Green Peter Lake, fishing, water skiing and swimming are favorite activities. There are many hiking trails in the Sweet Home Ranger District of the Willamette National Forest. Information can be obtained regarding the trails and campgrounds by contacting the Sweet Home Ranger District, 3225 Hwy. 20, Sweet Home, Oregon, 97386, 541-367-5168. Information about other sites can be obtained from the jurisdictions listed below.
Parks and Campsites
Sankey Park
14th Ave
This park is the location of the Weddle Covered Bridge over Ames Creek. There is a duck pond, and space for group meetings.
Linn County Parks Department
3010 Ferry S.W.
Albany, Oregon, 97321
541-967-3917
Gedney Creek Access
Quartzville Road
Foster Lake
Sweet Home/Foster, Oregon
Boat Launch
Lewis Creek Park
Quartzville Road
Foster Lake
Sweet Home/Foster, Oregon
Picnic areas, swimming and electricity - no RVs.
Sunnyside Park
Quartzville Road
Green Peter Lake
Sweet Home/Foster, Oregon
Fee is charged. 162 campsites, most with water and electricity. Boat launch, picnic areas, skiing, fishing, and an RV camp, without utilities.
Thistle Creek Boat Access
Quartzville Road
Green Peter Lake
Sweet Home/Foster, Oregon
Boat Launch
Whitcomb Creek Park
Quartzville Road
Green Peter Lake
Sweet Home/Foster, Oregon
Fee is charged. 38 campsites, no electricity. Boat launch, picnic areas, skiing, fishing, swimming. No RV facilities.
Bureau of Land Management
4431 Hwy. 20
Sweet Home, Oregon 97386
541-367-2010
Yellow Bottom Park
Quartzville Road
Approximately 25 miles north of Sweet Home
22 campsites and 12 picnic areas, stream fishing.
Sweet Home Ranger District
3225 Hwy. 20
Sweet Home, Oregon 97386
541-367-5168
Fernview Park
Approximately 25 miles east of Sweet Home on Hwy. 20.
10 primitive campsites. Picnic areas (no small children), stream fishing (campground is on a bluff above the river, so river access is difficult).
Trail access to Rooster Rock Trail. The Old Santiam Wagon Road is located nearby.
House Rock Park
Approximately 29 miles east of Sweet Home on Hwy. 20.
17 primitive campsites, stream fishing. There is still evidence of the Santiam Wagon Road, where travellers once crossed the Cascades, and sheltered next to a large trailside boulder.
Trail acces to House Rock Trail, located across the river from the campground. The loop trail is great for children.
Lost Prairie Campground
38 miles east of Sweet Home on Hwy. 20, open Memorial Day through Labor Day.
10 units with tables, 8 tent units, 2 tent, auto, trailer units, 3 units adapted for the handicapped. Fireplaces (no firewood), vault toilets, drinking water, vault toilets - handicapped, garbage collection.
Camping, picnicking, winter snow park area, trail access to Cone Peak, Tombstone Nature Trail and Iron Mountain Trail.
Trout Creek Campground
18 miles east of Sweet Home on Hwy. 20, open May 15 through November 15.
24 units with tables, 15 tent units, 19 tent, auto and trailer units, fireplaces (no firewood), vault toilets, drinking water, garbage collection and picnic shelter.
Camping, picnicking, fishing, trail access to Trout Creek Trail.
Yukwah Campground
East of Sweet Home on Hwy. 20, open May 15 through September 20.
20 trailer units with tables, 17 trailer units, 3 double occupancy units, fireplaces (no firewood), vault toilets, drinking water and a nature trail.
Camping, picnicking, fishing, trail access to Trout Creek Trail.
State Park
Cascadia State Park
Approximately 20 miles east of Sweet Home
26 primitive campsites, 3 picnic areas and fishing.
Covered Bridges
Three covered bridges can be seen within the city of Sweet Home. Weddle Covered Bridge, formerly Devaney Covered Bridge, has a 120 foot span and was originally built in 1937. After partial demolition in 1987, it was rebuilt in 1990 and moved to Ames Creek in Sankey Park.
Dahlenburg Covered Bridge was built by the Sweet Home High School Building Trades class of 1989 as a class project. It is a 20 foot span over Ames Creek in Sankey Park. The class also built a portable 8 foot wide, 20 foot long covered bridge that was used to promote conservation and restoration of covered bridges. This bridge was purchased by Joel Whittemore, who decided not to claim it. He later donated it as a foot bridge for Clover Memorial Park, with the stipulation that it be named after him. The Joel Whittemore Covered Bridge spans Stone Brook Creek.
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