Umpqua National Forest

Passes & Permits

The Forest Service offers many activities such as hiking, biking, skiing, camping, birding, using cabins, driving for pleasure, harvesting mushrooms, and gathering firewood. Many of the facilities and services associated with these opportunities are free. Some do require fees or permits to help maintain, manage and improve the amenities that you enjoy.

This page will help you find information on the following:

• Recreation Fees and Passes:
  About recreation fees
  Pacific Northwest Recreation Resource Advisory Committee
  Valid recreation passes
  Recreation rentals
  Campground fees
• Gathering Firewood: What you need to know to remove firewood from the Umpqua National Forest.
• Special Forest Products: People can harvest, through permits, a large variety of products on the Umpqua. Some of the more common products are Christmas trees; firewood; evergreen boughs for wreaths and other decorations; decorative greenery such as salal; mushrooms; posts, poles and rails for fencing; live transplants (conifer trees, vine maple, and others); beargrass (for decorative arrangements); prince's pine (medicinal and flavoring); and dry cones (decorative arrangements).

Recreation Fees and Passes

About Recreation Fees - National Recreation Fees, Passes and Permits

This recreation fees, passes, and permits section will help you understand the types of recreation fees, recreation passes available, and general information about the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act that Congress enacted in December of 2004.

Pacific Northwest Recreation Resource Advisory Committee (RAC)

The PNW Recreation RAC is a citizen's advisory committee that makes recommendations on creating new or changing existing recreation fees managed by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Oregon and Washington. The PNW Recreation RAC is authorized under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act, which was signed into law in December, 2004.

Advice and recommendations from the PNW Recreation RAC is combined with other public notification and communication efforts to help the agencies make sound decisions regarding recreation fees.

Valid Recreation Passes

The Umpqua National Forest has nine standard amenity fee sites requiring a recreation pass. In the Pacific Northwest you have several pass options available.

Regional Recreation Passes: This site will help you see the available passes that cover standard amenity fee sites in Oregon and Washington. Information on the Northwest Forest Passes, and the Washington and Oregon Recreation Pass can be found here.

Interagency Recreation Passes: This site will help you see the various interagency recreation passes available that cover standard amenity fees for federal agencies across the United States. Information on the "America the Beautiful -- The National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass" (Interagency Annual Pass, Interagency Senior Pass, and Interagency Access Pass) can be found here.

• If you are having difficulty deciding which pass is best for you? Try this site.

Recreation Rentals

Whether it is winter, spring, summer, or fall, you can step back in time by rending a historic Forest Service cabin or fire lookout. These remote rentals once operated as fully staffed lookouts or guard stations, and are now unique opportunities to get away with family and friends.

These recreation rentals are offered to the public under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act. Rental fees are retained locally to help maintain and preserve these historic properties.

The Umpqua National Forest offers five rental opportunities:

• Butler Butte Cabin
• Fairview Peak Lookout
• Musick Guard Station
• Pickett Butte Lookout
• Whisky Camp Guard Station

Campground Fees

Fees for camping in developed campground in the Umpqua National Forest are listed under Recreational Activities. Dispersed camping and some campground are free.

Gathering Firewood

Special Forest Products

Please buy locally.

We encourage you to buy your passes at local Forest Service offices or through Nature of the Northwest.