Cottonwood Recreation Area Campground
1Heads up1 fire 50 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $6From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The Cottonwood Recreation Area, located 45 minutes northwest of Lakeview, Oregon, is one of the busiest campgrounds in the southeast zone of the Fremont-Winema National Forest. Western white pine, white fir offer shade and aspens turn sunny gold every autumn. Abundant deer and even black bear can be sighted strolling through the campground. It's essential to pack all food away in vehicles or hang it high. This campground features 22 campsite, six vault toilets, potable water, and a seasonal camp host. Each campgrounds has a picnic table and campfire ring. Keep reading
Additionally, there are four walk-in, tent only sites and one horse camp site. The horse camp includes its own corral and water area as well as a trailer turn-around. This high-elevation camp is generally free of snow mid-June through mid-October. Cotton Meadows Lake, stocked with rainbow and Brook trout, offers excellent fishing. There are two day use areas and a boat launch on the lake. Only non-motorized and electric boat motors are allowed. Other recreation opportunities include hiking and exploring.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campground features 22 campsite, six vault toilets, potable water, and a seasonal camp host. Each…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…features 22 campsite, six vault toilets, potable water, and a seasonal camp host. Each campgrounds has a…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
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.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
“$6/Night for single unit, $2/Night for extra vehicle” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($6), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 6
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Lofton Reservoir CampgroundFremont National Forest · 9.3 miDrews Creek CampgroundFremont National Forest · 12 mi
Dairy Point CampgroundFremont National Forest · 13 mi
Clear Spring CampgroundFremont National Forest · 14 mi
Happy Camp CampgroundFremont National Forest · 14 miDog Lake Campground/Boating Site/Picnic SiteFremont National Forest · 14 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lakeview, OR
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
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Who answers for this land
Cottonwood Recreation Area Campground 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 →