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Target Shooting

Target shooting is a popular activity in the Tillamook State Forest.  Each year, hundreds of shooting enthusiasts come to try out new guns and improve their skill with favorite firearms.

Coming out to shoot in the Tillamook State Forest means keeping in mind that it is a busy place full of hustle and bustle both on the roads and among the trees.  Every day the forest sees multitudes of people engaged in dozens of activities including logging, road building, camping, OHV and non-motorized trail use. 

Please plan your shooting excursion carefully so that you can select a destination that will not endanger Forestry employees, contractors or other forest visitors or find you shooting into private property.  Use this blog and the Oregon Department of Forestry Recreation Website to help choose your shooting location by taking the time to learn about where roads, trails and recreation facilities are located.


Beaver Dam Rock Pit (aka Browns Camp Shooting Pit) (updated 09.12.2022)
The Beaver Dam Rock Pit is OPEN to public use but will be closed intermittently throughout mid-August to late September for rock hauling activity.  

Signs will be posted at the site when the pit is closed.  Please do not shoot when the signs are up even if you don't see anyone working as the contractor will be working both in the pit and above the back of the pit (in range but not visible).

Rock Creek Ridge Pit (updated 11.14.2019)
The Rock Creek Ridge Pit is CLOSED  public use.

This closure is in effect to ensure the safety of the people working on the active timber sale and road building projects in the woods surrounding these sites.

Camp 5 Pit (updated 08.28.2020)
The Camp 5 Pit is CLOSED  public use.

This closure is in effect to ensure the safety of the public during a rock crushing operation and the safety of the people working on the active timber sale and road building projects in the woods surrounding these sites.

Check out the TSF N. Fork Wolf Creek Target Shooting Lanes

N. Fork Wolf Creek Shooting Lanes (updated 09.12.2022)  
The N. Fork Wolf Creek Lanes are OPEN
to public use for the duration of the EXTREME Fire Danger period.





DISCLAIMER:  Even when posted as being open, all rock pits on state forest lands may be closed at any time, without prior notice, for industrial rock haul activity.  

If there is any kind of equipment in the rock pit, it is closed to all public use.  Additionally, industrial rock operators do have the authority to ask folks to cease all target shooting / public use in order to open the pit for industrial rock haul activity.


Here are links to some of our partners:
Northwest Firearms
Trash No Land