Gull Point Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 1 of the next 1 nights read 16:09 UTC
- A night
- $25–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 80All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located on the shore of Wickiup Reservoir in Deschutes National Forest, Gull Point campground offers visitors easy access to an abundance of recreational activities along the Cascade Lakes National Scenic Byway. Sites are scattered among a mixed, yet open conifer forest, giving sunshine a chance to filter through. Several sites sit on along the waterfront. Keep reading
Recreation
Gull Point Campground offers visitors opportunities for hiking, boating, canoeing, swimming and fishing. The reservoir's relatively warm water and cooler deep channels generate some of the best fishing in Central Oregon. The area is renowned for its brown trout, often reaching 20 pounds, with normal catches in the 5-to-8 pound range. The reservoir also sustains good numbers of kokanee and coho salmon and decent populations of rainbow trout, brook trout, whitefish and chub.
Facilities
Gull Point campground offers spacious campsites for both tent and RV camping. Picnic areas, drinking water, vault toilets and a dump station help visitors enjoy the outdoors in a comfortable setting. There are also two large day-use areas, with boat launches and fish cleaning stations at each.
Natural Features
The reservoir covers an area on the Deschutes River that was historically used by Native Americans during the fall. Several tribes throughout the area built "wickiups," shelters made from reeds, grass, or brush, while living in the area. At full pool, Wickiup is a beautiful, pine-edged reservoir, with some willows and sandy beach areas. At low water, steep soil and gravel banks drop abruptly to the water. This is one of central Oregon's best wildlife viewing sites, attracting a variety of nesting and migrating birds. Fantastic nearby peaks, lava flows and forests also provide visitors with a variety of landscapes. Wetlands, diverse forests, and rocky slopes near the campground provide a necessary habitat for shorebirds, porcupine, deer, bats and the occasional black bear.
Nearby Attractions
Lava Lands Visitor Center in nearby Bend, Oregon, is a great starting point for visitors to learn about the diverse landscape and history of the area through interpretive programs and exhibits. Visitors can also explore the Lava River Cave, located in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. At 5,211 feet in length, the northwest section of the cave is the longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.
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
Visitors only using the day-use areas need to purchase a Forest pass
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 single tent site. Two RV’S with tow vehicle per double site or two vehicles per double 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.
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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.
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).
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 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
- 80 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 8 of 80
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…camping. Picnic areas, drinking water, vault toilets and a dump station help visitors enjoy the outdoors…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…both tent and RV camping. Picnic areas, drinking water, vault toilets and a dump station help visitors…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 340th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Full this Saturdayread 16:09 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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 rates for this season, $25–$50 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 16:09 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
80 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 80 mapped sitesAll 80 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. 80 of the 80 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Gull Point Campground | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 194 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 002 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 88 ft | 122 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 003 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 77 ft | 169 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 004 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 91 ft | 78 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 005 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 77 ft | 167 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 006 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 71 ft | 169 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 007 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 67 ft | 156 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 73 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 009 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 67 ft | 168 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 010 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 100 ft | 82 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 011 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 90 ft | 117 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 012 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 90 ft | 41 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 013 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 104 ft | 136 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 014 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 132 ft | 251 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 015 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 114 ft | 291 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 016 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 119 ft | 408 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 017 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 106 ft | 308 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 018 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 99 ft | 422 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 019 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 100 ft | 333 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 020 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 72 ft | 355 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 021 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 72 ft | 351 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 022 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 74 ft | 274 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 023 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 66 ft | 249 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 024 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 71 ft | 209 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 025 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 66 ft | 216 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 026 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 70 ft | 147 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 027 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 105 ft | 192 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 028 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 73 ft | 116 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 029 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 73 ft | 172 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 030 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 86 ft | 94 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 031 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 77 ft | 179 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 032 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 65 ft | 122 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 033 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 65 ft | 184 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 034 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 67 ft | 124 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 035 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 70 ft | 188 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 036 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 98 ft | 106 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 037 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 113 ft | 92 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 038 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 164 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 039 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 92 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 040 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 52 ft | 168 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 041 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 52 ft | 185 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 042 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 60 ft | 177 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 043 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 60 ft | 193 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 044 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 92 ft | 159 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 045 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 111 ft | 136 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 046 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 108 ft | 114 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 047 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 104 ft | 109 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 049 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 250 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 050 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 159 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 051 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 125 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 054 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 53 ft | 135 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 055 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 41 ft | 158 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 056 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 41 ft | 158 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 057 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 57 ft | 145 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 058 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 56 ft | 229 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 059 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 48 ft | 159 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 060 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 56 ft | 221 ft | $25–$50 |
| Gull Point Campground | 061 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 48 ft | 164 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 062 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 177 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 063 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 287 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 064 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 272 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 065 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 286 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 066 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 193 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 067 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 231 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 068 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 119 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 069 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 163 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 070 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 61 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 071 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 118 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 072 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 12 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 073 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 49 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 074 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 51 ft | 81 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 075 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 51 ft | 129 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 076 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 185 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 077 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 125 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 078 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 175 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 079 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 116 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 080 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 200 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | 081 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 142 ft | $25–$50 | |
| Gull Point Campground | GP52 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 119 ft | 179 ft | $126 | |
| Gull Point Campground | GP53 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 74 ft | 91 ft | $126 |
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 80 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
West South Twin CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 0.9 mi
South Twin Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 1.0 mi
North Twin Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 1.9 miSheep Bridge CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.0 mi
Reservoir CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.4 mi
Sheep BridgeDeschutes National Forest · 2.5 miFrom Bend, Oregon, go south on Highway 97 for nearly 27 miles to Wickiup Junction. Turn west on Road 43 and continue for 11 miles, then turn west on Forest Service Road 42 for 4.6 miles. Turn south on Forest Service Road 4260 and continue for 3 miles into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for La Pine, 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 · a letter you can send
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
Gull Point 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 →
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 Gull Point Campground, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon
Dear Cliff Bentz, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Gull Point Campground, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 80 sites at Gull Point Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 2 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Gull Point Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Gull Point Campground. 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 Gull Point Campground (Deschutes 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 Gull Point Campground, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Gull Point Campground, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 80 sites at Gull Point Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 2 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Gull Point Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Gull Point Campground. 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 Gull Point Campground (Deschutes 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 Gull Point Campground, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Gull Point Campground, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. All 80 sites at Gull Point Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 2 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Gull Point Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Gull Point Campground. 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 Gull Point Campground (Deschutes National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com