Smith Rock State Park is a day-use park

Tuff-and-basalt cliffs rising 550 feet above the Crooked River canyon — Smith Rock is the birthplace of modern American sport climbing (Alan Watts bolted the first U.S. sport routes here in the mid-1980s) and remains one of the country's most concentrated route databases at 1,800+ established climbs. The state park has no traditional drive-in RV campground; the Bivouac walk-in area (75 tent sites, $8/night, first-come) is the only overnight inventory and rigs over a passenger van must stage outside. RV staging routes to Crooked River Ranch RV Park, Skull Hollow USFS (8 miles north, dry-camp), or the BLM dispersed corridors along the Lower Crooked Wild & Scenic River corridor 18 miles south. Day-use parking caps below 200 vehicles and timed-entry pulses are documented in spring and fall when route demand peaks.

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