U.S. Forest Service · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR

Carter Bridge Campground

3Heads up3 fires, nearest 3 mi
Wildfire
The Narrows fire · 3.4 mi away · 305 acres · 98% contained · updated Sep 16, 2026
Wildfire
Austin fire · 14 mi away · 12,888 acres · 98% contained · updated Oct 12, 2026
Wildfire
Latigo Lane fire · 19 mi away · updated Oct 16, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Right now
Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
Drawn from the record · 880 ft · 0% tree cover · Clackamas River within reach · Bortle 4 sky
880 ftElevation
331 ftWater · Clackamas River
11.2 miSW of Mount Hood Villages, OR
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 757th darkest of 770 in OR

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

On the Wild and Scenic Clackamas River. The campground is a compact single loop through cedars, maples, and alders. A couple of berry patches suggest good picking in late summer. Some sites have great views of the river. Popular recreation activities include fishing and whitewater rafting. Download a Whitewater Recreation Map here!

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
River
Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 23 km away
Patchy color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (23 km) · Oct 11, 2026

Phone before you drive

recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itAlaska Recreational Management, Inc.A private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Servicethe operator link
Every line of the receipt · 3

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today58°Rain Likely then Mostly Cloudy71% rain
Tonight40°Partly Cloudy
Sunday62°Partly Sunny
Sunday Night43°Mostly Cloudy

NWS forecast for Mount Hood Villages, OR

Typical weather

Typical October night 42°F, day 59°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

90°32°20°

Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more

A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: THREE LYNX, OR (USC00358466), 5 miles away and 240 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

developing

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 4, 2026

Who answers for this land

Janelle Bynum, official portrait

Carter Bridge Campground is in Oregon’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Janelle Bynum (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (23 km) · Oct 11, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.