Cultus Corral Horse Camp
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $23From, per site
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located just a short distance from Cultus Creek, the Cultus Corral Horse Camp is designed for horse campers who wish to visit the Cascade Lakes area. Keep reading
Recreation
Situated in the heart of the Cascade Lakes region between Cultus Lake and the Crane Prairie Reservoir, Cultus Corral Horse Camp offers visitors opportunities for horseback riding and hiking as well as fishing and boating at the nearby Cutlus Lake and Little Cutlus Lake.
Facilities
Cultus Corral Horse Camp can accommodate RV, trailer or tent-campers; however, water and electric hookups are not available. This facility does have a hand pump which provides potable water. The camp has ten sites with 4 - horse corrals and one site with highline poles. All are equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. The campground has vault toilets available.
Natural Features
Cultus Creek flows from Cultus Lake into Crane Prairie Reservoir, which is a damed portion of the Deschutes Ruver. The Deschutes River winds its way through central and northern Oregon before making its way to the Columbia River.
Nearby Attractions
Located near the Three Sisters Wilderness, Cultus Corral Horse Camp offers equestrians relatively close access to hundreds of miles of trails. Cultus Lake and Crane Prairie Reservoir, each a short drive from the campground, provide opportunities for boating, fishing and swimming. Cultus Corral Campground is also situated just off of the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, a 66-mile route stretching from Bend to Davis Lake that features numerous lakes, unique geological features and views of South Sister, Broken Top, Mt. Bachelor and other peaks.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
This facility is for horse campers only - to ensure everyone's safety horses are only allowed in horse camps and are not permitted in our regular campgrounds. Therefore horse campers are limited in their choices so we must enforce that campers in this facility must have at least one horse.
There is potable water. There is also a trail that leads down to the creek for horses to get water.
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment and tires before using lake or trails.
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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.
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.
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.
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).
Click here for more information about Deschutes National Forest 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.
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.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11 · 11 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Not allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…ring with grill. The campground has vault toilets available. Natural Features Cultus Creek flows from…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…not available. This facility does have a hand pump which provides potable water. The camp has ten…”
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek
- Night sky · 348th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $23 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 11 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop 1 | 001 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 52 ft | 752 ft | $23 |
| Loop 1 | 002 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 52 ft | 731 ft | $23 |
| Loop 1 | 003 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 752 ft | $23 |
| Loop 1 | 004 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 787 ft | $23 |
| Loop 1 | 005 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 103 ft | 882 ft | $23 |
| Loop 1 | 006 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 981 ft | $23 |
| Loop 1 | 007 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 1,070 ft | $23 |
| Loop 1 | 008 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 110 ft | 1,153 ft | $23 |
| Loop 1 | 009 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 1,131 ft | $23 |
| Loop 1 | 010 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 1,089 ft | $23 |
| Loop 1 | 011 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 100 ft | 997 ft | $23 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cow Meadow CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 1.4 mi
Cultus Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 1.9 mi
Cultus Lake Boat In - Little Cove CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.8 mi
Crane Prairie CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.8 mi
Quinn River CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 3.2 miFrom Bend, OR: Travel about 46 miles southwest on Cascade Lakes Highway (46); take a right onto Forest Road 4635 and travel about a mile; take a right onto Forest Road 4630. The campground is near the end of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Three Rivers, OR
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.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Cultus Corral Horse Camp 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 →