Honeyman State Park

This park is beautiful, but campground is noisy during after quiet hours. Rangers and park hosts didn’t really help. Might visit during the day again, but unlikely I’ll spend another night camping there.

Have to give this place a one star. We arrived at 7AM to kayak the entire lake. Ended up doing about 6 great miles.
But all the trouble came when we paddled in to the boat beach. When I parked my boat on the sand the at the direction of his boss the volunteer stormed out and demanded to know where I thought I was going.
I told him I was done kayaking and was going to take my boat out of the water and go to lunch.
He told me I couldn’t park my boat there and pointed to this little muddy dirty area a few yards away. Since this was a state park being paid for with my tax dollars I ignored him and used the nice clean sandy beach.
After all, all I was doing was putting my boat on the car.
There is plenty of clean beach but these folks are using the best part to store rentals. They need to move the rentals off the beach and up a bit to free up space for tax paying Oregonians.

Very nice park and not to far from downtown Florence. We walked to the south jetty trough the dunes. We visited a couple of lighthouses in the area. The back loop has 50 amp power for the big rigs and we loved the spots. Very nice park and campground. We would stay there again.

Beautiful area. We stayed in a yurt! Really fun paddling experience on Lake Cleawox. Super nice volunteers work there!

This is a wonderful place to camp. The facilities are kept very clean. Nice hot showers. We stayed in site 162. As others have mentioned the playground was a huge hit with the kiddo. We will definitely stay here again.

I love this camp site! It’s one of my first ever camping experiences and I try to come back here every year. Clean, pretty private sites. The dunes are the main attraction. This place is huge but noise isn’t bad at all.

I stayed in a yurt at A Loop this trip and it was awesome; quiet, clean, comfortable and easy access to the dunes. I can’t wait to go back again.

We camped at Honeyman for two nights, in the F loop, with our baby and toddler. The playground was a huge hit with the toddler, she made a lot of new friends there. We had a really good experience camping and enjoyed hiking up a sand dune with the kids in carriers. Unfortunately the weather was kind of cold and we got rained out on the second day, so we didn’t get a chance to explore Cleawox Lake which we were really looking forward to. Anyway we thought the camping was great– nice people, nice woodsy lots, nice facilities. If anyone stayed in the F loop without small children I would feel bad for them– it does involve some crying babies and screaming little kids, but it seemed like everyone had children and understood.

Honeyman is a great area to visit. Cleawox Lake, the small lake on the west side of the highway, is a gem for canoe and kayak people… it’s really much larger than it looks and you can spend all day exploring it. The dunes are right here as well. So what’s not to like?
Well…Honeyman is one of the largest campgrounds in the Oregon State Park system. This means lots of traffic, much of it diesel powered (noisy, smelly). Also means lots of people. The effect is more like camping out in a suburban backyard. Throw in the highway noise (highway 101 is close by), and it’s more like camping in an urban backyard. Oh, then there’s the ATV’s: in theory they are not allowed in the park or in the dunes before 1 Oct. Yeah, well, this is the «we do what we want» crowd, so you’ll want to stay out of the dunes to avoid being mowed down. And bring earplugs, those things are noisy. Loop H is where they nest, but you can hear them all over the campground.
There are lots of other campgrounds on the central coast. I like Cleawox Lake but will not stay at the campground again. Very disappointing.

Back when Mr. K and I were dating, but not yet married, we camped at Honeyman and so I have very fond memories. This time around we decided to stay at a nearby hotel and just spent our days at the park.
The reason to go is for the dunes. You can spend hours climbing (feel the burn), running and rolling down the dunes. For the adventurous, you can rent sand boards, that you wax like a surfboard, and whoosh down the hills. But many come here with their ATVs or dune buggies for some high octane fun.
But you should consider this when deciding if you want to camp here. There will be noise. This area can also get quite cold and windy in the afternoons and evenings.
We spent most of our time at Cleawox Lake. You can rent paddle boats or canoes. There is a fishing pier and earlier in the summer it is stocked, but we didn’t get many bites. My son also spent some time at Camp Cleawox this spring with a school group.
You can get a taste of the dunes up north at Fort Stevens, but Honeyman is really the epicenter of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. Every Oregonian needs to experience this beauty at least once.

Great place to go camping. I know some people in Florence who go camping there. Also if you want to try sandboarding its a great place. It’s also right across from another lake so if you get bored, which I doubt, u can always take a little trail from there to the other lake.

The beach at this state park was ok but as I realized while traveling to the Pacific Northwest it is quite a bit more cooler compared to other beaches that I have been to. Because it is the Pacific Northwest. Duh. Anyway the beach was nice and since it was a state park I understood that picking up the deceased ocean creatures up off the beach is not something that the park staff would do because it is intended to be natural. I can’t say that that in of itself is a minus but it is when one sees a little kid bashing the crap out of a crap and you see the pieces of the creature flying all over and its internal organs. Not a real appetizing site no sir. Maybe it is just because I am in a landlocked area normally in the US and not used to crabs and seeing them get viciously destroyed by a child. Their also were really weird jellyfish that looked like wet brown paper bags with green hoses coming out on one end lying dead on the beach too. Yep. I can pretty much say I am just not used to these things because of where I live. Still I enjoyed walking on the beach like I always do at whatever beach I may be at.

H Loop is only open to ATVs during the off-​season from late September-​May. I wouldn’t recommend ever staying in H loop as it is mostly sand with very little privacy. This is the loop where the folks with satellite antennas ask to be placed because a lack of trees makes it easier to get a signal. Even when H loop is closed to ATVs you’ll hear them because the South end of park borders the access road to the dunes for nearby recreation location Sand Dunes Frontier. Which is a fun place to go if you have the money, tell Avery that Lee sent you!
Always aim to be in B or C loops. I like E and D but the shower house is pretty old and these loops are usually closed during the winter.
If you’d like a yurt and you aren’t bringing the quads go for those in A loop, they are pretty private too.
This is the second largest campground in the Pacific Northwest after Fort Stevens in Astoria and one of the best. Cleawox is a great lake for swimming during the summer and if you like marching up and gliding down sand dunes you can rent a sandboard nearby. The staff is super friendly and many of the hosts are repeaters that come through every year. They love Honeyman just like I do! Make sure to book in advance during the summer and stay the heck out of H-​loop!
Final Notes:
1. Kids in Florence call nabbing your cooler full of beer «yogi-​bearing». Place your valuables inside your vehicle or yurt and lock your doors at night.
2. Never a lack of cougars in this park during the summer. Happy hunting.
More patrolling in the summer by park staff means less camper noise, but Honeyman will always be a party destination for the young and restless of Lane County.