Offering family and group camping in a beautiful forested location in the Cascade foothills. Options include yurt and tee pee rentals, tent sites, RV sites and group sites. Onsite activities include an 18 hole disc golf course, full service paintball field, gold panning, volleyball, and horseshoe pits, Nearby on State forest land are waterfalls, hiking trails, ATV trails, and more.
About Camp Dakota Campground
Reviews & Ratings
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August 15, 2026Brody MA Family Must Try Experience
Our family went back for the second year in a row! We have an absolute blast every time! The staff is amazing! The activities are so fun and there is something for everyone! Every family must try going there at least omce!
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August 14, 2026Artichoke ACould be great! š
Wonderful Activities and Yurt, but Gelly Ball Needs Better Oversight Our family of seven recently stayed at Camp Dakota, and overall, the positives outweighed the negatives. Our yurt was clean and comfortable, the on-site store was well-stocked with fair prices, and we loved having reasonably priced pizza delivered to us. The staff was consistently kind, although they seemed understaffed. The activities were fantasticāgold panning, archery, axe throwing, the zip line, and especially the Brave Warrior aerial course. The zip-line instructor made the experience especially fun. For the aerial course, having an instructor stationed on the course to explain strategies for each obstacle would make the experience even better. Unfortunately, our Gelly Ball experience was extremely disappointing. At $55 per person, our group of seven spent $385, yet we played only about 2Ā½ very short gamesāless than 20 minutes of actual play. The biggest issue was the lack of active refereeing. Players repeatedly ignored hits and rules, and the instructor did not intervene or maintain control of the field. This led to frustration, unsafe behavior, and my grandson being repeatedly shot in the neck. My daughter-in-law eventually had to leave the game with him, followed by most of our team. The instructor needs to remain actively engaged on the field, enforce the rules, address cheating, and prioritize safety rather than leaving the group to refill equipment. Having a parent present and responsible for younger children's behavior would also help. Given how little we were able to play, I believe some type of credit would have been appropriate. One other concern was the strong odor from the nearby pit toilets, which was particularly noticeable around the tent and campfire areas. Despite these issues, Camp Dakota is a beautiful property with wonderful activities and a lot of heart. We hope this feedback helps improve the experience for future families.
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August 4, 2026jkcjansen
Fantastic, despite the little wonkiness. GREAT FAMILY PLACE!
We had such a great family time at Camp Dakota. We brought 21 family members with us, and there was so much fun for all ages. Doing things with our grandkids or watching them have fun, was so special for all of us. We especially appreciated having all types of sites, RV, yurts, and tent areas together. We loved having a pull-through RV site down below the hill (the only one) but I think it could be difficult to get a trailer around some of the upper camping areas. The yurts were mostly spacious and well appointed except for a mirror and a sink. One suggestion would be to paint the front edge of the deck steps. Several of us had to be very careful to notice the step up or down, and my husband caught his toe on the top step going up onto the deck, and he fell, and hurt his head, shoulder and hand. Also, the check-in and frisbee golf instructions were rather chaotic and inconsistent between various ones of our group who participated. $10 is a little much to charge for a lost frisbee when the course is so easily camouflaging a disc that goes sideways. On the other hand, the ropes course was AWESOME, and all of us enjoyed the archery, despite the wonky targets and ripped fins on the arrows. It was still wonderful fun!
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August 4, 2022Extraordinary760996
SO WONDERFUL!!!!
We are a family that LOVES getting out and doing things in our own backyard. Native to Oregon we decided to go to Camp Dakota for 5 days in July. I CANāT SAY ENOUGH!!!! Family owned and beyond what I could have imagined! Online booking took me a couple phone calls to understand, but the way they āscheduleā the events, is really cool and professional. Itās a great system, trust the system and just call if itās confusing. This is the coolest place tucked away in this tiny little town. LOVED IT!!!!!! STAFF WAS WONDERFUL!!!! TIP YOUR STAFF!!! What a great place to work in the summer for these young adults! ZIP LINING was worth every penny!!! I have four boys, 7 years old to 17 AND THEY ALL HAD A GREAT TIME DOING THIS. Our instructor (had a Camp Dakota tattoo on his calf) was so cool, funny and overall cared about everyoneās safety and having a good time. He made sure everyone left smiling and everyone really did! I really appreciated his style that he put into the experience!! The kids liked him. ARCHERY was well ran and I felt safe with the no-nonsense āgoofing aroundā. They didnāt allow kids/teenagers to mess around with the equipment. I appreciated that very much as a parent wanting my boys to have a good-safe time. It was awesome. I tipped the most at this station š. PANNING FOR GOLD, this would be better with running water, not standing water, but my 7 year old really enjoyed it and we made sure to buy the bag with the arrowhead in it because the office staff made it into a necklace for my son. (ALSO, the kids can earn beads to make a necklace with at the end of your trip. Get the check off list at the office and your kids can collect beads throughout your stay). MYSTERY ROOM was fun and cool for our family. We like escape rooms and this was a cool way to do one while camping. They took an old box-car (I think) and inside made it this cool old western escape room. A little small (our group of 6 was about all I would put in there), but the clues and the gadgets that get set off are really fun and neat. The staff here was so cute and even came in at the end to help us with a couple last clues to finish ā¤ļø ROCK WALL-all of my boys rock climbed, even the 17 year old! The kids can rock climb all day and itās free with the adventure wrist band! Very worth it!!! TREE LINE ADVENTURE-They had a side for younger kids and a very challenging one for the olders and adults. My boys said this was really fun, but actually took a lot more strength then they expected! Good workout! They talked about this experience a lot and said it was really fun! PAINTBALL-š¬. The outdoor course is pretty cool for the terrain and woodsie feel. It was SO HOT the day we played though (94 degrees/July), I would recommend booking an early session time in hot months. They have misters which helped, but if you wear layers and gear you can imagine how hot everyone gets. I did think the āwait timeā in between sessions was too long especially in the heat. It would have been better to keep the games going quicker. Just my thought, but I also donāt play, just watch. Probably not a first-time paintball kind of place unless itās super not busy and you can ask for one on one instruction. But, my boys played 4 games and LOVED IT-they had no complaints-they were just really sweaty. SHOWERS šæ- they had showers!!! This was nice, only bad thing, They take quarters only and itās $.25 cents for 1 minute. Thereās also not a way to get quarters after hours. Great amenity though just plan. The camp site areas are far enough apart that we werenāt on top of our neighbors, but the kids made friends and had others to hangout with. We stayed in an RV site with hookups, but there are yurts and normal camp sites. The yurts I heard were really really cool. OVERALL I would give Camp Dakota 10 STARS if I could!! THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE STAFF AND ESPECIALLY Juggernaut who took my 800 phone calls and set us up wonderfully even when we arrived! THANK YOU AND WE WILL BE BACK AGAIN!!!! (All the staff have super cute nick names!). I LOVE THIS PLACE!!! We will make this a tradition!
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June 30, 2022X3848QLashleymNOT FOR FIRST TIME PAINTBALLERS
I would like to say before beginning my review that I have attempted to resolve my problem with the camp with no success. I took a group of 15 first time paintball players (all adults over 21) to what I thought was a private 3 hours of paintball play (per the package I had paid for)....I spent a lot of time confirming everything from what we should wear to if we needed to bring any of our own safety items, to if someone would be there to assist in everything since none of us had played prior... Confirmed everything so the day of would be smooth sailing. The day of - WAS A JOKE. We showed up to 3 other "groups" that we were to play with..(again, not what is stated in the Party Package I paid for) There was a video we were supposed to watch that - this was the ONLY instruction from the camp; no verbal directions on how do prep our guns or anything were given by the kids running the booth. NOT ONE TIME did an employee show us how to load our guns, despite multiple in our group asking and reminding them none of have played we don't know what were doing... NOT ONE TIME did an employee offer to show us what to do. NOT ONE TIME did an employee explain the rules of the games. NOT ONE TIME did an employee answer a direct question in regards to safety (ie how our masks were fitting, how to use the safety on our guns...NOTHING) Again, I did reach out to the camp the day after the incident, and they pretty much said they don't care of the safety concerns; they have "too many new people to make sure things are up to par all the time", and that was their solution. I was offered a partial refund in the form of a gift certificate, but when I told them I didn't feel safe returning to their facility they said "oh well that's all we can do". All I can say is I will never return to this establishment. And DO NOT recommend taking kids to play paintball it is a complete safety hazard, and with the lack of direction a lawsuit waiting to happen. Oh, I should also mention you have to sign a waiver to play supposedly (which not all of my people had signed - but they don't check on site so you can play without it I'm sure they won't care...)