Fremont Point Cabin
1Heads up1 fire 43 mi away
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:48 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fremont Point Cabin is located on top of the Winter Rim in North Central Lake County, Oregon. The newly constructed cabin, which was completed in the summer of 2015, sits on the same footprint as its predecessor, which was destroyed during a forest fire in 2002. Through numerous donations of funding, materials, and volunteer labor, the cabin has been rebuilt and is now ready for you to enjoy. While the cabin is available year-round, off season access may be limited to foot or snowmobile depending on weather conditions, as the roads are not maintained in the winter. Keep reading
Recreation
Recreational activities within close proximity of Fremont Point Cabin include horseback riding, wildlife viewing and photography, mountain biking, OHV riding, hunting, fishing, kayaking and boating. Numerous trails including the Fremont National Recreation Trail and Oregon Timber Trail are also nearby.
Facilities
The large two-sided deck provides ample room to sit, relax and enjoy the vistas. Inside, the cabin contains one set of bunk beds (two twins) and one queen-size bed. There is room for additional sleeping arrangements, which guests must provide. Also included in the cabin are an LP Range Top, refrigerator, several LP lamps, and a wood stove for heat, firewood is available at the cabin. A newly constructed vault toilet is available next to the cabin. The closest convenience store is a 45 minute drive one-way; so visitors are reminded to bring their own water, bedding, and any other necessary items for their stay.
Natural Features
Poised on the edge of an escarpment at almost 3,000 feet above Summer Lake, Fremont Point Cabin offers a breathtaking view of the valley below. Due to the remoteness of this site, visitors can enjoy the opportunity for personal reflection while watching a variety of weather patterns across Summer Lake.
Nearby Attractions
The panoramic view from the edge of the Winter Rim is amazing. And, the National Recreational Trail which skirts along the escarpment edge provides an endless number of opportunities to view the valley below. A short hike west from the cabin finds a totally different ecosystem, thriving with large ponderosa and lodge pole pine. Thirty minutes to the south are the headwaters for the Wild and Scenic Sycan River, which is an easy day hike on the historic Hanan Trail from the developed trailhead on FSR 28.
What the agency tells you
Cell phone service is usually available at the cabin.
There is no cleaning service. Guests must clean the cabin prior to their departure.
Bring enough water for all needs during your stay.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Dishes and cookware are not provided.
Firewood is not provided (during the winter months there is firewood provided for ski/snowshoe-in guests).
There is no trash service. Pack out what you pack in.
Vehicle parking is limited at the cabin.
When wet or snowy, FSR 034 may become slick and muddy, requiring a four-wheel drive vehicle to traverse. Please watch weather conditions closely.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…one-way; so visitors are reminded to bring their own water, bedding, and any other necessary items for their…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 12th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 1
Full this Saturdayread 16:48 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday, and on four midweek nights after it as well. read 16:48 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:48 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Forest Road 034 | Fremont Point Cabin | cabin nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 1.4 mi | 54 ft | $40 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Currier Guard StationFremont National Forest · 11 mi
Eastbay CampgroundFremont National Forest · 13 mi
Hager Mountain LookoutFremont National Forest · 14 miThompson Reservoir CampgroundFremont National Forest · 15 mi
Duncan Reservoir CampgroundLakeview District Lakeview Field Office · 15 mi
Bald Butte Lookout (Fremont-Winema National Forest, OR)Fremont National Forest · 18 miSummer Travel: From the Paisley Ranger District Office in Paisley, Oregon: Travel north on State Route 31 for 34.2 miles, between mile posts 64 and 65, turn left (west) onto the graveled Forest Service Road (FSR) 2901. Follow FSR 2901 for 16.1 miles. Turn left (east) on FSR 034 and continue for 2.3 miles to the Fremont National Recreation Trailhead. From the trailhead, continue .3 miles on the narrow access road to Fremont Cabin. If you are traveling with a large RV or pulling a trailer, the road should be scouted prior to driving to the cabin, as there is limited parking and turning space available.
From Silver Lake, travel south on County road 4-12 to the Forest Boundary where the road turns into Forest Service Road 28. Follow this road for approximately 16 miles to road 2916 and follow plowed roads 2916 and 3012-014 for 2.2 miles up to and past the Sycan Electrical Power Substation to the snow park (N42.51.044 W120.58.814). The snow park has a plowed out parking area where the trail starts for those using snowshoes or cross country skis, or snowmobiles..
Winter Travel: For winter travelers the snow conditions are variable but generally drive in access is not possible and you must use snowshoes, skis, or snowmobiles to access Fremont Cabin. It is recommended that you check snowtel stations in the area for snow depth. The routes are very remote and navigation, although marked can become difficult in adverse weather conditions. Plan ahead and start your trip early in the morning to allow enough time to reach the cabin. The trail is not groomed and may need broken-in. Please be prepared for a strenuous winter backcountry trip and carry emergency winter camping materials, first aid, map/GPS, and extra food and water. Directions for the recommended marked route(s) are as follows:
The snowshoe/ski trail is marked with blue diamond shaped tags attached to trees, and it is approximately 10 miles to the Fremont Point Cabin, using forest roads 3012-014, 3012, 3012-015 and 2901-034. The snowmobile route is marked with orange diamond shaped tags and is approximately 15 miles following forest roads 3012, 2901 and 2901-034. There is a shelter with a wood stove and firewood as a halfway point to the cabin from the snowpark lot.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Paisley, OR
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Fremont Point Cabin 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyCliff BentzU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJeff MerkleyU.S. Senator · Oregon
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRon WydenU.S. Senator · Oregon
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Fremont Point Cabin, Fremont National Forest, Oregon
Dear Cliff Bentz, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Fremont Point Cabin, Fremont National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Fremont Point Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Fremont Point Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Fremont Point Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Fremont Point Cabin (Fremont National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Fremont Point Cabin, Fremont National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Fremont Point Cabin, Fremont National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Fremont Point Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Fremont Point Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Fremont Point Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Fremont Point Cabin (Fremont National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Fremont Point Cabin, Fremont National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Fremont Point Cabin, Fremont National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Fremont Point Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Fremont Point Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Fremont Point Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Fremont Point Cabin (Fremont National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com