Anthony Lake Guard Station
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 16:31 UTC
- Sites
- 2All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Winter BOOKINGS Both Sites are the same cabin Site: 001- Winter Guard Station Non Operation Days & Summer Reservations is for Booking DAYS THE SKI AREA IS NOT OPEN (Sunday night through Tuesday night) (Holiday Weekends Monday Night through Tuesday Night) Check ins are strict to Sunday nights except holiday weekends (Monday Nights) Checkouts should be on Wednesdays 3 night minimum only Not Operating = SKI AREA CLOSED 1 exception is the Christmas Block- We operate Full day on 12/23, Half day on 12/24 (1pm shutdown), and Closed 12/25, Open 12/26. 12/23 to 12/25 (depart 26) will be priced as NON OPERATIONAL. Keep reading
Site: Guard Station Operational Days is for booking Days the SKI AREA IS OPERATING (Wednesday Night through Saturday Night) (Holiday weekends Wednesday Night through Sunday Night). 3 night minimum any remaining days in between 3 night reservations will be reservable but you must book the full window if its a 1 or 2 night stay. You can reserve a combination of off days and on days the rules still stay the same. Your departure date will be the same as your arrival date if you are continuing your stay from non-operational to operational days or vice versa. Contact Heather at heather@anthonylakes.com for questions about "Winter Lodging." Summer guests please note that winter rates and summer rates are extremely different please check your totals when you book your dates. Summer rates are $160.00 a night. More info at: https://anthonylakes.com/winter/on-hill-lodging/#guard-station Anthony Lake forms the source of Anthony Creek, named for William 'Doc' Anthony, an ambitious homesteader who came to Baker County in 1864. He was a farmer and a doctor, collected tolls on the Dealy Wagon Road for a time, and ran his ranch until he died in 1914 at age 85. Anthony Lake Guard Station is a historic Civilian Conservation Corps log cabin built in the 1930s - one of only a few Forest Service cabins built of logs. For questions for Anthony Lake, Grande Ronde Lake, Mud Lake, Peavey Cabin, and Anthony Lake Guard Station call (541) 519-3993 Guests at Anthony Lake Guard Station will find many modern comforts to help make their stay enjoyable. It's located at a popular recreation area and adjacent to the Anthony Lake Campground, and is easily accessible by car.
Recreation
A boat ramp is located on the lake. Activities include boating, canoeing and kayaking. Anglers can fly fish for trout. Trails in the area include the 22.6-mile Elkhorn Crest (foot and equestrian), 1-mile Black Lake (foot and equestrian) and the 1-mile Shoreline (foot).
Facilities
This comfortable, rustic 2-story cabin features a kitchen, a full bathroom with a flush toilet and hot shower, one downstairs bedroom with a full size bed and a futon, two upstairs bedrooms with five twin beds, propane heater and electric lights. The kitchen is well-equipped with an electric stove and refrigerator, as well as cookware, eating utensils and place settings. Cleaning supplies are provided. A picnic table and campfire ring are just outside the cabin. Guests are required to bring garbage bags to pack out trash, and they are expected to clean the cabin before leaving. Bedding and towels are not provided, and guests may also wish to bring emergency items, such as flashlights and a first aid kit.
Natural Features
The guard station is situated on the north shore of Anthony Lake, providing a stunning view of the lake and the glacial peaks of the nearby Elkhorn Mountains. The most prominent of these peaks is 8,342-foot Gunsight Mountain. This area is known for conifer forests, wildflower meadows and the resident mountain goats. The elevation is approximately 7,000 feet, and snow can be expected into July. Anthony Lake is sometimes frozen until mid-June. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 519-3993.
Nearby Attractions
The Elkhorn Scenic Byway is a 106-mile drive through the Elkhorn Mountains. Along this drive are ghost towns and an abundance of lakes and rivers. Anthony Lakes Recreation is nearby with mountain bike trails and a seasonal restaurant.
What the agency tells you
Maximum capacity is 8 people
Arrival time is 1:00 p.m.; departure time is 11:00 a.m.
Reservations are required for this facility
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Cell phone reception is limited outside of the cabin
Entry to the cabin is by combination lock; You will recieve an E-mail with the appropriate combination. Email alcampgrounds@anthonylakes.com if you have any questions.
No smoking inside of the cabin
Cabin stay duration is limited to 7 days
Pets are welcome but must remain outside
There is no additional space for tent camping on-site
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Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 2 · 2 cabin
- Hookups
- 2 electric
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…a kitchen, a full bathroom with a flush toilet and hot shower, one downstairs bedroom with a full…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Facilities This comfortable, rustic 2-story cabin features a kitchen, a full bathroom with a flush toilet and hot shower, one downstairs bedroom with a full size bed and a futon, two upstairs bedrooms with five twin beds, propane heater and electric lights.”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Meadow
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Mountain biking
- Scenic drives
- Swimming
- Water access
- Wilderness access
- Wildlife viewing
Full this Saturdayread 16:31 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 19. read 16:31 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
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We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:31 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
2 sites · the site map
All 2 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 2 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 2 of the 2 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA ANTHONY LAKE GUARD STATION | 001- Winter Guardsation Non Operation Days & Summer Reservations | cabin electric | 15 amp | 240 ft | 106 ft | $160 |
| AREA ANTHONY LAKE GUARD STATION | Winter Guard Station Operational Days (Ski Area Open) | cabin electric | 15 amp | $160 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Anthony LakeWhitman National Forest · 0.2 mi
Mud Lake CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 0.2 mi
Grande Ronde Lake CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 1.1 mi
Peavy CabinWhitman National Forest · 4.0 mi
North Fork John Day Campground (OR)Umatilla National Forest · 9.1 mi
McCully Forks CampgroundWhitman National Forest · 14 miFrom Baker City: take Highway 30 to Haines, turn west on County Road 1146, and follow the Elkhorn Drive Scenic Byway signs to Anthony Lakes. Turn left at the campground entrance. Anthony Lakes Guard Station is located adjacent to the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Granite, OR
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Anthony Lake Guard Station is in Oregon’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Cliff Bentz (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyCliff BentzU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJeff MerkleyU.S. Senator · Oregon
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRon WydenU.S. Senator · Oregon
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Anthony Lake Guard Station, Whitman National Forest, Oregon
Dear Cliff Bentz, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Anthony Lake Guard Station, Whitman National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 2 sites at Anthony Lake Guard Station are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Anthony Lake Guard Station keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Anthony Lake Guard Station. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Anthony Lake Guard Station (Whitman National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Anthony Lake Guard Station, Whitman National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Anthony Lake Guard Station, Whitman National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 2 sites at Anthony Lake Guard Station are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Anthony Lake Guard Station keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Anthony Lake Guard Station. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Anthony Lake Guard Station (Whitman National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Anthony Lake Guard Station, Whitman National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Anthony Lake Guard Station, Whitman National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 2 sites at Anthony Lake Guard Station are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Anthony Lake Guard Station keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Anthony Lake Guard Station. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Anthony Lake Guard Station (Whitman National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com