Poole Creek Campground

The Poole Creek Campground lies just south of the mouth of Poole Creek in the Lemolo Lake Recreation Area on the west shore of Lemolo Lake, the highest reservoir on the North Umpqua River. The campground features lodgepole pine, mountain hemlock, and a Shasta red fir forest. Facilities at the campground include tables, fireplaces, running water, vault toilets, a boat ramp (Northwest Forest Pass is required) and a swimming beach. Lemolo Lake contains Kokanee, Eastern Brook, and a few Rainbow trout. Large German brown trout are wild native fish and can be taken on troll and fly. Waterskiing is another popular activity on portions of the lake. The lake depth exceeds 100 feet in places. The area includes the Bunker Hill Forest Service Campground with five camping units the East Lemolo Forest Service Campground with informal camping units, and the Inlet Forest Service Campground with 14 camping units. In addition, is a full service resort operating under special use permit from the Umpqua National Forest including: motel units and Swiss chalets, a restaurant, a lounge, groceries, gasoline, propane, fishing licenses, and boat rentals and boat ramp. An RV park which includes full hookup or electricity and water hookup only, a dump station, bathrooms showers, and a Landromat is within this area as well.

Stayed here overnight after a late departure from Olympia WA and a very late - 10:00pm- arrival in the dark. Many spots were open, and all had reserved signs on them. On close flashlight inspection, these were for future dates, so I picked one and walked a few hundred yards to the fee station and filled my envelope with a $20 bill for a pull-thru. This National Park reservation protocol may be good to know, as I drove past other park areas that appeared taken with reserved slots, but that had open sites.
I haven’t dry camped much, and this may be no new news for others. Check-in is at 2:00 and check-out at 1:00.

Need Levelers On Most sites. Lake/reservoir Was Beautiful. However There Was Yellow Algae In The Water. No Toilet Paper In Vaults, Even After Host Did Rounds. $38 for two night via Recreation.gov

Very nice campground and we were there week before labor day weekend. Weather was nice with rain in the forecast for the weekend. Roads are a bit tight and our site required some work to fit right and to level. Beautiful lake but the fishing was terrible. The vault toilets were clean and well stocked with the essentials. Water is nearby. Now my complaint. Late August and the forest service bureaucrat in charge had decreed NO CAMPFIRES AND NO CHARCOAL fires. So not only could we not have a nightly campfire but we could not cook outside on our grill. I know it's fire season but we are in a forest service campground with fire rings. And it has not been a particularly dry summer. Lots of green grass and green vegetation in the forest. Not catching fish and no campfires really took the wind out of the experience. The fishing issue was not anyone's fault but our own but the campfire issue was certainly and over reaction by an unaccountable bureaucrat in and office. Really looking forward to this trip but we won't be back,