Frog Lake
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $21.34From, per site
- Sites
- 3230 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Frog Lake Campground is a beautiful and somewhat rustic campground on Frog Lake. It provides access to enjoyable outdoor activities, including fishing and leisurely canoeing on the calm, mountain lake. Keep reading
Recreation
Frog Lake covers 10 acres and is open to fishing, swimming, canoeing and non-motorized boating. Anglers can expect a catch of rainbow trout. Picnicking is available at the campground's day use area, which provides access to the boat ramp. A hiking trail leads east, up Frog Lake Buttes, as does an unimproved forest road, which is open to mountain biking and high-clearance off-road vehicles. The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail passes just north of the campground, off Forest Road 2610.
Facilities
The campground offers nearly three dozen single-family sites for tent and RV camping, though RVs over 22 feet are not recommended. Utility hookups are not available. Parking surfaces are gravel and dirt and may be irregular in shape. Each site is equipped with a table and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided throughout the campground. Firewood is available for purchase from the campground host.
Natural Features
The campground is located between the highway and Frog Lake at an elevation of 3,800 feet, just past the town of Government Camp in Mt. Hood National Forest. The small campground is situated in a heavily forested area, where the sounds of frogs are heard at night.
Nearby Attractions
The Sno-Park at Frog Lake is about 12 miles east of Government Camp. It provides trail access to Twin Lakes and Frog Lake Butte. The latter trail is closed to snowmobiles during February. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 352-6002.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground
In accordance with standard industry practices, Mount Hood Recreation will be assessing an additional vehicle fee on the second vehicle in each single family campsite, and on the third and fourth vehicle in any double family campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site. In the case of motorcycles, the first two are considered as one vehicle for determining additional vehicle fees. The third and fourth motorcycle would also be considered as one vehicle. No additional vehicle fees are collected for bicycles.
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).
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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.
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.
Click here for more information on Mt. Hood National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 32 · 8 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 26 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided throughout the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided throughout the campground. Firewood is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 646th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 30 of the 32 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $21.34 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.
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
32 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 32 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 32 of the 32 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. 30 of the 32 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.
| AREA FROG LAKE | 001 | type not stated | 866 ft | 70 ft | |||
| AREA FROG LAKE | 002 | type not stated | 790 ft | 118 ft | |||
| AREA FROG LAKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 83 ft | 798 ft | 113 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 22 ft | 721 ft | 186 ft | $21.34 | |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 22 ft | 712 ft | 197 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 47 ft | 658 ft | 250 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 27 ft | 616 ft | 263 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 27 ft | 601 ft | 240 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 37 ft | 559 ft | 262 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 37 ft | 530 ft | 230 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 24 ft | 456 ft | 159 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 24 ft | 458 ft | 168 ft | $21.34 | |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 25 ft | 382 ft | 106 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 390 ft | 100 ft | $21.34 | |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 016 | tent only nonelectric | 27 ft | 293 ft | 47 ft | $21.34 | |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 27 ft | 303 ft | 21 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 018 | tent only nonelectric | 31 ft | 273 ft | 31 ft | $21.34 | |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 019 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 41 ft | 304 ft | 24 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 020 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 41 ft | 274 ft | 58 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 021 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 78 ft | 309 ft | 120 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 022 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 24 ft | 316 ft | 191 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 023 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 24 ft | 292 ft | 207 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 37 ft | 291 ft | 200 ft | $21.34 | |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 025 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 37 ft | 322 ft | 164 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 343 ft | 140 ft | $21.34 | |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 350 ft | 130 ft | $21.34 | |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 028 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 120 ft | 452 ft | 99 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 029 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 120 ft | 572 ft | 131 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 030 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 109 ft | 688 ft | 213 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 031 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 63 ft | 796 ft | 149 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 032 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 63 ft | 842 ft | 88 ft | $21.34 |
| AREA FROG LAKE | 033 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 94 ft | 903 ft | 20 ft | $21.34 |
25 of 32 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Clear Lake (OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 3.1 mi
Barlow Creek CampgroundMount Hood National Recreation Area · 3.4 mi
TrilliumMt. Hood National Forest · 3.8 mi
Barlow Crossing CampgroundMount Hood National Recreation Area · 4.0 mi
Clear Lake Cabin LookoutMt. Hood National Forest · 4.8 miWhite River Station CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 4.9 miFrom Sandy, travel 62 miles east on Highway 26, then continue 1 mile west through the Sno-Park on Forest Road 2610.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Government Camp, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 26°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Frog Lake 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 →