East Davis Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $21From, per site
- Sites
- 19All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
East Davis Campground is located on the east side of Odell Creek where it enters Davis Lake and offers visitors the opportunity to experience the beauty and recreational opportunities of the eastern Cascade Range. Keep reading
Recreation
Davis Lake is one of the most popular fly fishing only lakes in the Pacific Northwest, producing abundant trophy size rainbow trout and largemouth bass.
Facilities
East Davis Campground can accommodate RV, trailer or tent-campers however water and electric hookups are not available. All sites are equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill and the campground has vault toilets and drinking water available.
Natural Features
Nearby Davis Lake is one of the most productive wildlife areas in central Oregon. Add a superb view of Cascade peaks at no charge and you have a truly special place to visit. It is known for its wildlife, wildflowers, bird watching opportunities, sightseeing, and access to a nearby lava flow.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors can explore wilderness areas, rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and approximately 1,600 miles of trails that comprise nearly 2.5 million acres within the Deschutes National Forest and the adjacent Ochoco National Forest. Lava Lands Visitor Center in nearby Bend, Oregon, and the unique geological landscape of Newberry National Volcanic Monument draw visitors to the region as well. Visitors enjoy traveling the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, known as Oregon's Highway in the Sky, which climbs into the clouds on a 66-mile drive through the Cascade Range, weaving past snow-capped peaks and alpine lakes.
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
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment and tires before using lake or trails.
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.
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During your time in Central Oregon, you can find wildfire, prescribed fire and smoke information at centraloregonfire.org
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
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
- 19
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…ring with grill and the campground has vault toilets and drinking water available. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and the campground has vault toilets and drinking water available. Natural Features Nearby Davis Lake is…”
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Night sky · 284th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 17:00 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
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, $21 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
recreation.gov availability, read 17:00 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 19 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. 19 of the 19 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 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 125 ft | 344 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 113 ft | 421 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 99 ft | 141 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 149 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 189 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 53 ft | 149 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 49 ft | 204 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 49 ft | 161 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 47 ft | 202 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 47 ft | 156 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 66 ft | 189 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 114 ft | 207 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 230 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 50 ft | 165 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 50 ft | 208 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 171 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 191 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 353 ft | $21 |
| Loop 1 | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 359 ft | $21 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sunset Cove CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 5.8 mi
North Davis Creek CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 6.1 mi
Crescent Creek CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 6.3 mi
Reservoir CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 7.0 mi
Princess Creek CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 7.8 mi
Crescent Lake Guard StationDeschutes National Forest · 8.4 miFrom Crescent, OR: Travel 8.8 miles west on County Road 61, then 7.7 miles north on Highway 46, then 2.6 miles west on Forest Road 4600 850.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Crescent Lake, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 20°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
East Davis 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 →