Map and Directions

GPS MAY NOT GET YOU TO DCC. DO NOT RELY ON GPS. The roads that some GPS programs will direct you to have washed out and no longer exist!  The Waze App and Google maps are more likely to provide correct directions.

• Turn onto Drift Creek Road off Hwy 101 south of Lincoln City (1.1 mile south of the 51st St. light in Taft and 22 miles north of Newport; a sign on 101 indicates that Lincoln City is 4 miles north.)
• Drive to the first intersection (less 1.5 mile off Highway 101) where Anderson Creek Road goes to the left and Drift Creek Road continues to the right. (There used to be a stop sign at this intersection but it has been removed.)
• From the Anderson Creek intersection, continue following Drift Creek Road to the right for close to 1/4 mile after the intersection. (This will be 1.9 miles from turning off Hwy 101.) At this point, turn LEFT onto Forest Service Rd. (FSR) #17 which is a paved single lane fork to the left, with a steep climb. (On the right side of the road you will see a green sign for Drift Creek Camp pointing left and a brown sign for the Drift Creek Falls Trail 10 miles.)
• Follow FSR #17 for 4.8 miles to FSR #19 (previously #1929). Before reaching the intersection of FSR #17 and FSR #19, you will come upon 2 other intersections, one at .8 miles and one at 4.2 miles. At each of those intersections, stay to the left. When you come to the third intersection, at 4.8 miles, turn right onto FSR #19. At that intersection, there will be a large brown Forest Service sign. It will have two arrows to the left with distances to Drift Creek Falls and to Highway 18. There will be an arrow pointing RIGHT for Drift Creek Camp, 5 miles.
• Follow the gravel road for 5 miles. You will pass small roads to the right at .8, 1.2, 1.7 and 4.2 miles, but continue to the left to stay on the main road. You will cross North Creek over a large culvert at 4.6 miles.
• At 5 miles, turn right at the “Siuslaw National Forest, Drift Creek Camp” sign and cross the entrance bridge. (If you pass our driveway you will notice the road get considerably narrower and you will encounter severe rough road and large “water bars”, like speed bumps.) Continue over the bridge and down into camp. You have arrived!

Alternate Directions: Use if logging operations have closed the main road

• Turn onto Bear Creek Road (FSR 17) off of Hwy 18, five (5) miles east of Hwy 101 (in Rose Lodge). Note: this is also the way to Drift Creek Falls.
• Follow FSR 17 for fourteen (14) miles to FSR 19 (previously FSR 1929) a gravel road with sign at intersection for Drift Creek Camp.
• Follow gravel road for 5 miles. (Follow signs to Drift Creek Camp.)
• Turn right at the “Siuslaw National Forest, Drift Creek Camp” sign and cross bridge. If you pass our driveway you will notice the road get considerably narrower and you will encounter severe rough road and large “water bars” (like speed bumps).