Hyatt Lake Recreation Area
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- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $7–$12Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 62All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Nestled high in the Cascade Mountains among towering firs and pines, the Hyatt Lake Recreation Area is located in the northern corner of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument on the shores of beautiful Hyatt Lake. At just above 5,000 feet of elevation, the 745-acre Hyatt Lake Recreation Area provides options for summertime camping, picnicking, hiking, horseback riding, biking, fishing, swimming, boating, and many other recreation opportunities. The recreation area offers dramatic views of Mt. McLoughlin and serves as a great basecamp for access to the Monument and the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. Day-use is on a first-come, first-served basis and permits may be obtained at the self-service pay stations located at the main campground entrance and Wildcat Campground. Keep reading
Recreation
Hyatt Lake is a 10 mph "no-wake" lake. During spring and summer months, Hyatt offers excellent lake trout and small mouth bass fishing. Other recreation activities are available including hiking, swimming, horseshoes and a sand volleyball court. Access points for the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail are easily accessible starting from the campground. Although the campground is closed during winter months, great winter activities are available such as cross-country skiing, sledding and snowshoeing.
Facilities
Hyatt Lake Campground has 44 campsites across three loops (A, B, and C) with two boat ramps with dock facilities, showers, flush toilets, a playground and a RV dump station. Campsites must be reserved in advance at Recreation.gov . Wildcat Campground offers a primitive camping experience with 12 campsites, an undeveloped boat launch, well hand pump for potable water, and two vault toilets in a more open setting. For horse-campers, five equestrian-only campsites, each with a corral, are available for reservation in the Equestrian Campground and offer easy spur-trail access to the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. Overlooking Hyatt Lake and Mt. McLoughlin, the Mountain View Group Shelter accommodates up to 120 people. The shelter is equipped with an electric stove, running water, table and a large fireplace. The reservation of this site does not include any associated campsites. The reservable Osprey Kitchen is a group camping and day-use area accommodating 40 people with a covered cooking area, grill, group fire ring and walk-in tent sites.
Natural Features
Hyatt Lake is located 20 miles east of Ashland in Oregon's beautiful Cascade Mountains. At 5,200 feet in elevation, Hyatt Lake offers a cool respite from the summer heat and also serves as a gateway for winter recreation enthusiasts. Hyatt Lake is located inside the boundary of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. The Monument was established in recognition of its remarkable ecology and to protect a diverse range of biological, geological, aquatic, archaeological, and historic objects.
Nearby Attractions
Adjacent to the Hyatt Lake Recreation Area is public shoreline and adjacent lands. The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail intersects the campground and Little Hyatt Lake is within 6 miles of location. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 618-2200.
What the agency tells you
- The main campground opens annually at the end of May and closes right after Labor Day. Wildcat Campground opens end of May and closes on the first of October, weather depending. - Hyatt Lake Campground campsites are available by reservation only. Reservations for all campsites, including group camping sites, may be made online at www.recreation.gov or at 1-877-444-6777. - Boat ramps and docks open for the season when the campground opens. A wheelchair-accessible fish cleaning station is available at the Cascade Boat Ramp. - Firewood is not available at Hyatt Lake Campground. - Bicycles are not allowed on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 62 · 1 tent-only, 1 group, 5 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Paved pads
- 43 of 62
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed at 57 of 62 sites
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 63 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 63 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Swimming
- Winter sports
- Night sky · 637th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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
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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 · 19
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $7–$12 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking, plus the agency’s published $3 weekend rate on Friday and Saturday. 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
63 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 63 mapped sitesAll 63 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 62 of the 63 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Equestrian Campground | 01-Equestrian Camp | equestrian nonelectric | 66 ft | 340 ft | $10 | |||
| Equestrian Campground | 02-Equestrian Camp | equestrian nonelectric | 66 ft | 318 ft | $10 | |||
| Equestrian Campground | 03-Equestrian Camp | equestrian nonelectric | 88 ft | 238 ft | $10 | |||
| Equestrian Campground | 04-Equestrian Camp | equestrian nonelectric | 126 ft | 81 ft | $10 | |||
| Equestrian Campground | 05-Equestrian Camp | equestrian nonelectric | 126 ft | 27 ft | $10 | |||
| LOOP A | 01 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 58 ft | 459 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 02 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 421 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 03 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 81 ft | 308 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 04 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 330 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 05 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 293 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 06 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 55 ft | 266 ft | $7–$12 | |
| LOOP A | 07 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 55 ft | 256 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 08 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 82 ft | 191 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 09 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 70 ft | 247 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 10 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 61 ft | 190 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 11 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 61 ft | 176 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 12 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 50 ft | 247 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 13 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 50 ft | 220 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 14 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 272 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 15 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 88 ft | 246 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP A | 16 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 116 ft | 354 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP B | 17 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 86 ft | 640 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP B | 18 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 62 ft | 587 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP B | 19 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 62 ft | 599 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP B | 20 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 690 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP B | 21 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 82 ft | 610 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP B | 22 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 82 ft | 682 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP B | 23 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 96 ft | 568 ft | $7–$12 | |
| LOOP B | 24 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 96 ft | 602 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP B | 25 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 113 ft | 765 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP B | 26 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 73 ft | 726 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP B | 27 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 73 ft | 657 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP B | 28 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 99 ft | 709 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 29 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 107 ft | 80 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 30 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 87 ft | 185 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 31 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 113 ft | 37 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 32 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 181 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 33 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 173 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 34 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 103 ft | 92 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 35 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 105 ft | 122 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 36 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 103 ft | 195 ft | $7–$12 | |
| LOOP C | 37 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 105 ft | 188 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 38 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 98 ft | 76 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 39 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 118 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 40 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 75 ft | 185 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 41 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 160 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 42 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 46 ft | 202 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 43 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 67 ft | 100 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| LOOP C | 45 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 119 ft | 202 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| MOUNTAIN VIEW GROUP SHELTER | 01 Mountain View | day use | 35 ft | 20 amp | yes | 236 ft | 321 ft | $100 |
| OSPREY KITCHEN | 01 Osprey Kitchen | group tent only area nonelectric | 208 ft | 202 ft | $95 | |||
| WILDCAT | 01 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 129 ft | 172 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| WILDCAT | 02 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 129 ft | 69 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| WILDCAT | 03 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 146 ft | 26 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| WILDCAT | 04 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 103 ft | 34 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| WILDCAT | 05 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 84 ft | 55 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| WILDCAT | 06 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 104 ft | 88 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| WILDCAT | 07 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 84 ft | 122 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| WILDCAT | 08 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 65 ft | 149 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| WILDCAT | 09 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 95 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| WILDCAT | 10 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 60 ft | 59 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| WILDCAT | 11 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 111 ft | 102 ft | $7–$12 | ||
| WILDCAT | 12 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 111 ft | 69 ft | $7–$12 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 63 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Hyatt Lake CampgroundCascade-Siskiyou National Monument · 0.1 miHyatt Horse CampCascade-Siskiyou National Monument · 1.2 miWildcat CampgroundCascade-Siskiyou National Monument · 1.4 mi
Beaver Dam Group CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 11 miSurveyor Recreation SiteCascade-Siskiyou National Monument · 13 mi
Mt. Ashland CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 14 miDirections: From Ashland, Oregon (Interstate-5 Exit 14): Turn on Highway 66 toward Klamath Falls. Follow Highway 66 for 17 miles until you reach the Green Springs Inn. Turn north onto the Bureau of Land Management's East Hyatt Lake Road. Follow the road for approximately 3 miles until you reach the Hyatt Lake Recreation Area. Stay to the right on East Hyatt Lake Road; an entry booth, located at the entrance to the campground, has visitor camping information.
To get to Wildcat Campground and the Equestrian Campground continue past the entrance booth and Hyatt Lake Campground entrance for approximately 2 miles on East Hyatt Lake road and the entrance to Wildcat Campground and the Equestrian Campground will be on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ashland, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 23°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Hyatt Lake Recreation Area 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 →