Hoodview Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $28–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4544 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Hoodview Campground sits on the shores of Timothy Lake, in the shadow of Oregon's Mt. Hood. The surrounding forest setting offers spectacular views, miles of trails for exploration and abundant fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Proximity to Timothy Lake allows campers to enjoy a variety of water-related recreation activities, including boating and sailing, as well as swimming, windsurfing and fishing. Anglers can expect a catch of kokanee salmon and a variety of trout. A range of trails are located in the area. The Timothy Lake Trail is popular for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. The 12 miles of relatively level terrain loops trekkers around the lake, providing scenic views of the area. It connects to the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, a lengthy hike that extends across three states, from the borders of Canada and Mexico. Portions of that trail also lead southwest to Clackamas Lake Campground. The Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District is less than 3 miles from the campground. It was built to house forest service workers in the early 1900s. The rustic architecture and historic nature of the buildings and the surrounding area draws thousands of tourists each year.
Facilities
The campground offers dozens of single-family campsites for tent and RV camping. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A campground host is also available on-site. The nearest gas station/convenience store is about 18 miles away, west on Hwy. 26. The nearest grocery store is in Government Camp, about 23 miles away, west on Hwy. 26.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the southeastern shore of the roughly 1,400-acre lake, at an elevation of 3,400 feet. Timothy Lake was created in 1956 as a storage reservoir for the Oak Grove Hydroelectric Project. It is one of the larger lakes in the Mt. Hood National Forest. The campground is nestled in a mixed conifer forest, with many sites with views of the water's edge, offering views of Mt. Hood. A thick understory of rhododendron bushes provide privacy between sites. Contact Info Between 05/26/2023 and 09/30/2023 this location is staffed. Please call (503) 834-2215 to speak with local staff. From 11/22/2022 to 05/25/2023 this location is unstaffed. Please call (503) 464-8515 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Hoodview is about 28 miles from the base of majestic Mt. Hood, the highest point in Oregon. The historic Timberline Lodge in Government Camp offers scenic views of the snow-capped mountain.
Charges & Cancellations
A service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full details see Recreation.Gov, Rules & Reservation Policies.
What the agency tells you
Check-In/Out: Sites must be occupied each night. Check-in starts at 4 PM. Check-out is 12 PM. Sites unoccupied by 12 PM the day after the start the reservation will be forfeited without refund and resold. Call the campground office (503-834-2215) if you cannot arrive the first day of your reservation.
Generators: Generator use is permitted from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM. Due to customer feedback, we ask that campers refrain from using open-frame, construction-style generators, as they create excessive noise and may violate our peace and quiet rules. Generators are PROHIBITED after 8 PM and before 8 AM including to power medical devices or other equipment.
Parking: There is a $10 fee per day for each extra vehicle. One vehicle is included with single campsite, two with a double site. Please check your site's driveway length. This may limit the number and size of vehicles at your site.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Maximum Occupancy: Standard Sites = 6 persons. Hike-To sites = 4 persons (small tent only).
RV Water Tanks: Please fill your water tanks before arriving. We do not have fill stations. Filling at campsite water standpipes is prohibited.
Registration: If you booked for someone else, please update the reservation with their information. The person listed is responsible for the activities of everyone at the site.
Wildfires: Before arrival, check your destination for wildfires , fire restrictions and air quality .
Non-Refundable Fees: Service fees such as reservation fees, cancellation fees, and change fees are non-refundable. They are retained by the reservation service contractor, not by PGE or the U.S. Forest Service.
This campground is managed by Portland General Electric, under a partnership with the U.S. Forest Service as a part of the Clackamas River Hydroelectric Project FERC No. 2195. Contact PGE Parks and Recreation for more information: PortlandGeneral.com/parks, 503-464-8515, pgeparks@pgn.com. More Information: Park Rules , Boater Regulations , Mt. Hood National Forest , Portland General Electric.
Firewood: Buy it where you burn it. Did you know? Invasive insects and diseases can hitchhike in on logs, and they can destroy forests. Keep firewood local: under 10 miles is best, and 50 is too far. Learn more: dontmovefirewood.org
Cannabis: Please remember that Timothy Lake is on federal lands. While cannabis is legal in Oregon, possession and use are illegal on National Forest lands including in campgrounds.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 45 · 6 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Accessible sites
- 13
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A campground host…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A campground host is also available…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake
- Amphitheater
- Berry Picking
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Crawfishing
- Evening Programs
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Horseback riding
- Ranger programs
- Motor Boat
- Night sky · 624th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 44 of the 45 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.
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What you actually pay
“Parking: There is a $10 fee per day for each extra vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $28–$30 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.
“A service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full details see Recreation.Gov, Rules & Reservation Policies.” · 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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
45 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 44 mapped sitesAll 45 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. 44 of the 45 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 HOODVIEW | 001 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 299 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 002 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 332 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 003 | standard nonelectric | yes | 54 ft | 328 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 45 ft | 294 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 45 ft | 324 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 006 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 259 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 007 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 305 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 008 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 362 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 009 | standard nonelectric | yes | 22 ft | 350 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 010 | hike to | 41 ft | 474 ft | $24 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 011 | hike to | yes | 41 ft | 506 ft | $24 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 012 | hike to | yes | 47 ft | 550 ft | $24 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 013 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 447 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 485 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 015 | standard nonelectric | yes | 40 ft | 452 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 016 | standard nonelectric | yes | 61 ft | 455 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 017 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 424 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 018 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 374 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 019 | standard nonelectric | yes | 72 ft | 384 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 020 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 304 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 021 | standard nonelectric | yes | 59 ft | 301 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 022 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 66 ft | 228 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 38 ft | 193 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 40 ft | 201 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 025 | standard nonelectric | yes | 38 ft | 227 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 026 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 87 ft | 226 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 027 | standard nonelectric | 141 ft | 285 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 028 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 277 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 029 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 208 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 030 | type not stated | 309 ft | ||||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 031 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 230 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 032 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 303 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 033 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 213 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 034 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 297 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 035 | standard nonelectric | yes | 83 ft | 191 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 036 | standard nonelectric | yes | 99 ft | 190 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 037 | standard nonelectric | yes | 79 ft | 183 ft | $28–$30 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 038 | hike to | yes | 56 ft | 118 ft | $24 | |
| AREA HOODVIEW | 039 | hike to | 56 ft | 157 ft | $24 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 040 | hike to | 102 ft | 184 ft | $24 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 041 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 239 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 042 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 294 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 043 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 261 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 044 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 303 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| AREA HOODVIEW | 045 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 250 ft | $28–$30 |
25 of 45 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Stone Creek Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 0.3 mi
Pine Point Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 0.6 mi
Gone Creek Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 0.9 mi
Oak Fork Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 1.1 miTimothy Lake - Meditation Point CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 1.3 mi
Clackamas Lake Historic CabinMt. Hood National Forest · 2.1 miFrom Sandy, Oregon, travel east on Highway 26 for approximately 40 miles to Skyline Road/Road 42. Turn right on Skyline Road and continue south for about 9 miles. Turn right on Forest Service Road 57 and travel west for 2 miles, then turn right again at the Hoodview Campground entrance sign.
The weather
the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
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
Hoodview Campground (Timothy Lake, OR) is in Oregon’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Janelle Bynum (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →