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U.S. Forest Service · Deschutes National Forest · OR

Crane Prairie Campground

1Heads up1 fire 46 mi away

Wildfire

407 Det fire · 46 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026

Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026

Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:31 UTC

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near here Tell me when it comes back

Right now: Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:31 UTC
A night: $27–$29When it reopens, per site
Sites: 130In the agency’s record

Photos · Vista Recreation

90 ftLongest rig

4,460 ftElevation

255 ftWater · Crane Prairie Reservoir

13 miW of Three Rivers, OR

52%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices

In the agency’s own words

Crane Prairie Campground is located on the east shore of its namesake reservoir on Deschutes National Forest just off the scenic Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway. Crane Prairie Reservoir offers a variety of recreation opportunities, including fishing, boating and swimming with glimpses of South Sister and Mt. Bachelor on the horizon. Keep reading

Recreation

Crane Prairie Reservoir is a prime location for boating and fishing. Fisheries in close proximity to the site also add to its popularity among anglers. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife manages populations of rainbow trout, mountain whitefish, brook trout and largemouth bass. Fish cleaning stations and a boat ramp are within the campground. Hiking and hunting are popular activities in the surrounding area.

Facilities

Crane Praire Campground offers many sites that accommodate both tent and RV camping, though electric hookups are not available. Several campsites are located right on the waterfront. Sites are equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are also available. Roads and most parking spurs throughout the campground are paved. Showers and a small grocery store are available at a nearby resort.

Natural Features

Crane Prairie Reservoir hosts a number of waterfowl, including Sandhill cranes, Canada geese, bald eagles and osprey The adjacent forest is home to black-backed woodpecker, Williamson's sapsucker and mountain chickadee. Deer, squirrel, beaver and an occasional black bear also find habitat in the surrounding forest.

Nearby Attractions

Nearby Osprey Point is a unique interpretive area for visitors to learn about local fauna and observe osprey nesting platforms erected after natural snags toppled from age. Crane Prairie Campground offers easy access to the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway which weaves through multiple high lakes with views of South Sister, Broken Top and Mt. Bachelor. Newberry National Volcanic Monument offers a glimpse into Central Oregon's rich geologic history. Travel 25 miles to Lava Lands Visitor Center to explore exhibits at the interpretive center, attend a ranger talk, take in scenic views from the top of Lava Butte and travel one-mile underground through Lava River Cave. Travel 40 miles to Newberry Caldera to visit Paulina and East Lake, Paulina Peak and Paulina Falls.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment and tires before using lake or trails.

Rule

Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.

Rule

Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.

Everything else this campground posts · 7

Rule

During your time in Central Oregon, you can find wildfire, prescribed fire and smoke information at centraloregonfire.org

Rule

Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.

Rule

Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).

Rule

Click here for more information about Deschutes National Forest.

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Please protect Pacific Northwest forests by preventing the spread of invasive species. Firewood can carry insects and diseases that can threaten the health of our western forests. You can make a difference by obtaining and burning your firewood near your camping destination. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.

Rule

Camping or otherwise occupying a single location (including leaving camping equipment and/or related supplies) for a period longer than 14 consecutive calendar days is prohibited. ‘Location’ means the occupied area, the occupied campsite, and the National Forest System lands in the immediate vicinity thereof. Camping or occupying any location on all National Forest lands for more than 28 calendar days total during a calendar year is prohibited.

Rule

NO generator use is allowed in campgrounds between 10:00PM and 7:00AM (36 CFR 261.10). Silent power banks or battery powered devices are allowed.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 130 · 1 group
Hookups: None
Longest rig: 90 ft
Accessible sites: 4
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Vault Toilets; “…tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are also available. Roads and…”
Drinking water: Yes; “…rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are also available. Roads and most parking spurs…”
Boat ramp: Yes
Stay limit: 28 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Reservoir, Lake, River; Boating; Fishing
Night sky · 356th darkest of 770 in OR: Bortle 2

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:31 UTC

recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

Max stay28 nightsthe facility record

A night, when it reopens$27–$29plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itVista RecreationA private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Servicethe operator link

What’s open near here

Tell me when it reopens

Watch for it to come back

One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Every line of the receipt · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night, when it reopens$27–$29

Standard Nonelectric$27

Premium Site$29

Group area, a night$378

Rates for the season the campground is in now, May 22, 2026 to Oct 17, 2026.

Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 4

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Crane Prairie Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.

Closure: U.S. Forest Service status record · Oct 16, 2026

There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.

Open within 60 miles · 4

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

Gold Lake CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 19 mi · walk-up
Roaring River (Group)Willamette National Forest · 19 mi · 1 site
KiahanieWillamette National Forest · 25 mi · 23 sites
McKenzie River Trailhead at Paradise CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 31 mi · walk-up

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 16, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:31 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

132 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 127 mapped sites

79 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop ORAN 017 HOST 222 ftLoop YELL GROUP 222 ftLoop REDA 053 153 ftLoop REDA 057 151 ftLoop ORAN 035 146 ft

Least roomLoop BLUE 094 43 ftLoop BLUE 095 43 ftLoop BLUE 123 45 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 132 records

129 of 132 records located

Standard125Group1Type not stated1Host pad2

076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 016 HOST 017 HOST 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 GROUP

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 129 of the 132 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


BLUE	076	standard nonelectric	35 ft		90 ft	71 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	077	standard nonelectric	30 ft		106 ft	114 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	078	standard nonelectric	40 ft		79 ft	90 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	079	standard nonelectric	30 ft		79 ft	102 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	080	standard nonelectric	35 ft		90 ft	12 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	081	standard nonelectric	30 ft		95 ft	154 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	082	standard nonelectric	30 ft		61 ft	60 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	083	standard nonelectric	30 ft		110 ft	192 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	084	standard nonelectric	35 ft		61 ft	82 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	085	standard nonelectric	35 ft		70 ft	121 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	086	standard nonelectric	24 ft		110 ft	222 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	087	standard nonelectric	35 ft		66 ft	150 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	088	standard nonelectric	35 ft		66 ft	180 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	089	standard nonelectric	24 ft		75 ft	214 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	090	standard nonelectric	24 ft		75 ft	288 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	091	standard nonelectric			79 ft	212 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	092	standard nonelectric			75 ft	167 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	093	standard nonelectric			58 ft	90 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	094	standard nonelectric			43 ft	82 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	095	standard nonelectric			43 ft	125 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	096	standard nonelectric			47 ft	170 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	097	standard nonelectric	30 ft		61 ft	230 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	098	standard nonelectric	35 ft		50 ft	130 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	099	standard nonelectric	24 ft		50 ft	113 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	100	standard nonelectric	24 ft		61 ft	186 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	101	standard nonelectric	24 ft		57 ft	174 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	102	standard nonelectric	30 ft		57 ft	170 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	103	standard nonelectric	40 ft		63 ft	156 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	104	standard nonelectric	30 ft		74 ft	137 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	105	standard nonelectric	30 ft		74 ft	119 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	106	standard nonelectric	30 ft		87 ft	145 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	107	standard nonelectric	30 ft	yes			$27–$29
BLUE	108	standard nonelectric	30 ft		87 ft	84 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	109	standard nonelectric	30 ft		76 ft	153 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	110	standard nonelectric	30 ft		85 ft	141 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	111	standard nonelectric	30 ft		85 ft	60 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	112	standard nonelectric	30 ft		55 ft	105 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	113	standard nonelectric	30 ft		55 ft	106 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	114	standard nonelectric	30 ft		58 ft	255 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	115	standard nonelectric	30 ft		58 ft	277 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	116	standard nonelectric	30 ft		58 ft	274 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	117	standard nonelectric	30 ft		86 ft	244 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	118	standard nonelectric	30 ft		81 ft	170 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	119	standard nonelectric	30 ft		88 ft	330 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	120	standard nonelectric	30 ft		92 ft	274 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	121	standard nonelectric	30 ft		76 ft	229 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	122	standard nonelectric	30 ft		91 ft	350 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	123	standard nonelectric	30 ft		45 ft	260 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	124	standard nonelectric	30 ft		87 ft	348 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	125	standard nonelectric	30 ft		45 ft	244 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	126	standard nonelectric	30 ft		87 ft	346 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	127	standard nonelectric	30 ft		49 ft	245 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	128	standard nonelectric	30 ft		59 ft	318 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	129	standard nonelectric	30 ft		49 ft	245 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	130	standard nonelectric	30 ft		45 ft	260 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	131	standard nonelectric	30 ft		45 ft	275 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	132	standard nonelectric	30 ft	yes			$27–$29
BLUE	133	standard nonelectric	30 ft		59 ft	345 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	134	standard nonelectric	30 ft		80 ft	374 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	135	standard nonelectric	30 ft		59 ft	308 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	136	standard nonelectric	30 ft		78 ft	331 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	137	standard nonelectric	30 ft		90 ft	366 ft	$27–$29
BLUE	138	standard nonelectric	30 ft		74 ft	382 ft	$27–$29
GREN	139	standard nonelectric	30 ft		52 ft	370 ft	$27–$29
GREN	140	standard nonelectric	30 ft		47 ft	408 ft	$27–$29
GREN	141	standard nonelectric	30 ft		47 ft	378 ft	$27–$29
GREN	142	standard nonelectric	30 ft		52 ft	335 ft	$27–$29
GREN	143	standard nonelectric	30 ft		54 ft	315 ft	$27–$29
GREN	144	standard nonelectric	30 ft		56 ft	350 ft	$27–$29
GREN	145	standard nonelectric	30 ft		70 ft	281 ft	$27–$29
GREN	146	standard nonelectric	30 ft		85 ft	331 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	016 HOST	host pad	30 ft			415 ft
ORAN	017 HOST	host pad	30 ft		222 ft	484 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	018	standard nonelectric	30 ft		80 ft	488 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	019	standard nonelectric	30 ft		86 ft	414 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	020	standard nonelectric	30 ft		80 ft	414 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	021	standard nonelectric	30 ft		113 ft	354 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	022	standard nonelectric	30 ft		85 ft	309 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	023	standard nonelectric	30 ft		75 ft	280 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	024	standard nonelectric	30 ft		73 ft	222 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	025	standard nonelectric	30 ft		58 ft	156 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	026	standard nonelectric	30 ft		75 ft	205 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	027	standard nonelectric	30 ft		85 ft	122 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	028	standard nonelectric	30 ft		58 ft	155 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	029	standard nonelectric	36 ft		95 ft	212 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	030	standard nonelectric	40 ft		95 ft	282 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	031	standard nonelectric	60 ft		120 ft	405 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	032	standard nonelectric	40 ft		59 ft	308 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	033	standard nonelectric	40 ft		59 ft	363 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	034	standard nonelectric	30 ft		74 ft	422 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	035	standard nonelectric	45 ft		146 ft	514 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	036	standard nonelectric	35 ft		57 ft	657 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	037	standard nonelectric	35 ft		57 ft	639 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	038	standard nonelectric	40 ft		135 ft	399 ft	$27–$29
ORAN	039	type not stated	40 ft			533 ft
RED1	068	standard nonelectric	30 ft		76 ft	717 ft	$27–$29
RED1	069	standard nonelectric	30 ft		94 ft	673 ft	$27–$29
RED1	070	standard nonelectric	30 ft		66 ft	673 ft	$27–$29
RED1	071	standard nonelectric	30 ft		66 ft	613 ft	$27–$29
RED1	072	standard nonelectric	30 ft		66 ft	580 ft	$27–$29
RED1	073	standard nonelectric	30 ft		66 ft	554 ft	$27–$29
RED1	074	standard nonelectric	30 ft		85 ft	529 ft	$27–$29
RED1	075	standard nonelectric	30 ft		89 ft	472 ft	$27–$29
RED2	061	standard nonelectric	36 ft		97 ft	792 ft	$27–$29
RED2	062	standard nonelectric	36 ft		105 ft	951 ft	$27–$29
RED2	063	standard nonelectric	36 ft		97 ft	760 ft	$27–$29
RED2	064	standard nonelectric	36 ft		99 ft	884 ft	$27–$29
RED2	065	standard nonelectric	36 ft		101 ft	744 ft	$27–$29
RED2	066	standard nonelectric	36 ft		97 ft	834 ft	$27–$29
RED2	067	standard nonelectric	36 ft		95 ft	809 ft	$27–$29
REDA	040	standard nonelectric	30 ft		97 ft	177 ft	$27–$29
REDA	041	standard nonelectric	40 ft		118 ft	294 ft	$27–$29
REDA	042	standard nonelectric	30 ft		105 ft	209 ft	$27–$29
REDA	043	standard nonelectric	40 ft		84 ft	254 ft	$27–$29
REDA	044	standard nonelectric	35 ft		118 ft	352 ft	$27–$29
REDA	045	standard nonelectric	30 ft		84 ft	322 ft	$27–$29
REDA	046	standard nonelectric	30 ft		115 ft	533 ft	$27–$29
REDA	047	standard nonelectric	30 ft		115 ft	418 ft	$27–$29
REDA	048	standard nonelectric	30 ft		122 ft	559 ft	$27–$29
REDA	049	standard nonelectric	90 ft		126 ft	553 ft	$27–$29
REDA	050	standard nonelectric	55 ft	yes			$27–$29
REDA	051	standard nonelectric	40 ft		112 ft	717 ft	$27–$29
REDA	052	standard nonelectric	60 ft		142 ft	517 ft	$27–$29
REDA	053	standard nonelectric	40 ft		153 ft	866 ft	$27–$29
REDA	054	standard nonelectric	50 ft		112 ft	822 ft	$27–$29
REDA	055	standard nonelectric	50 ft		101 ft	885 ft	$27–$29
REDA	056	standard nonelectric	40 ft		101 ft	891 ft	$27–$29
REDA	057	standard nonelectric	40 ft		151 ft	1,034 ft	$27–$29
REDA	058	standard nonelectric	30 ft		93 ft	892 ft	$27–$29
REDA	059	standard nonelectric	35 ft		93 ft	931 ft	$27–$29
REDA	060	standard nonelectric	30 ft		119 ft	968 ft	$27–$29
YELL	GROUP	group standard nonelectric	30 ft	yes	222 ft	378 ft	$378

The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.

25 of 132 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate43.79639, -121.76083

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone541-323-1746

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Cow Meadow CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 1.4 mi Elk Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.7 mi

Cultus Corral Horse CampDeschutes National Forest · 2.8 mi

Quinn River CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 3.8 mi

Rock Creek Campground (Deschutes National Forest, OR)Deschutes National Forest · 4.2 mi

North Twin Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 4.5 mi

Getting there

From Highway 58, turn east onto Crescent Road at the sign for Davis Lake and Wickiup Reservoir, midway between mileposts 72 and 73. In 3.3 miles, turn left on Forest Road 46. Drive north for 18 miles and turn east on Forest Road 42 at the sign for Twin Lakes and Crane Prairie. Drive east on Forest Road 42 for 3.8 miles, then turn north on Forest Road 4270.

From Bend, go west on the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, which becomes Forest Road 46. Follow this road to its intersection with Forest Road 42, about 52 miles from Bend. Turn onto Forest Road 42 at the sign for Twin Lakes and Crane Prairie. Drive east on Forest Road 42 for 3.8 miles, then turn north on Forest Road 4270.

From Highway 97 between Bend and Klamath Falls, turn west to the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, 12 miles north of La Pine. After one mile, turn south on South Century Drive, which becomes Forest Road 42. Follow it for just over 17 miles to Forest Road 4270 and turn north at the sign for Crane Prairie.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon69°Mostly Sunny

Tonight39°Partly Cloudy

Saturday60°Mostly Sunny

Saturday Night35°Mostly Cloudy

NWS forecast for Three Rivers, OR

Source: National Weather Service, PDT forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 31°F, day 62°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 21°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: WICKIUP DAM, OR (USC00359316), 9 miles away and 102 ft lower

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless

Waldo4,973 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area

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

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Who answers for this land

Crane Prairie 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 16:31 UTC). U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.

Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 130 of the 130 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 129 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Oct 4, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.064 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 770 rated federal campgrounds in Oregon · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

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.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026