Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $38.56From, per site
- Sites
- 2625 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Kinnikinnick Campground is a hidden gem, situated north of Mt. Hood, just outside of Parkdale, Oregon. Sitting on Laurence Lake, Kinnikinnick Campground offers beautifully landscaped campsites with views of Laurence Lake and the wide-open hills that surround the lake. Keep reading
Recreation
Laurence Lake allows all non-motorized water sports. There are no rental facilities on site.
Facilities
The campground features well-groomed campsites, including campfire pits and picnic tables. The location offers vault toilets. There is a boat ramp nearby.
Natural Features
Surrounded by Laurence Lake, Kinnikinnick Campground is a natural attraction all its own. With incredible lake views, regular sightings of bald eagles and rock and hill formations that surround this site, it is the perfect place to go "off the grid" and enjoy the outdoors. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 806-0785.
Nearby Attractions
Laurance Lake is great for waterplay and fishing. Kinnickinnick Campground is just a 30-minute drive to nearby ski resorts, where summer hiking and outdoor adventures await.
What the agency tells you
There are no water, power or sewer hookups. No cell service. There is a 16 to 18" forge crossing the road at Elliot Creek. The forge is approximately 12' in width. The road is rough and not trailer friendly.
Learn more about the Mt. Hood National Forest.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Campground taxes and fees: 2%
There is no selling or swapping of sites among guests.
Site Fee includes ONE vehicle. Additional vehicles on site will be required to pay additional vehicle fee. This fee can only be paid in person on site. Extra vehicle fee cannot be collected online.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26 · 19 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 26 ft
- Accessible sites
- 26
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and picnic tables. The location offers vault toilets. There is a boat ramp nearby. Natural Features…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Fish Hatchery
- Fishing
- Night sky · 686th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 25 of the 26 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.
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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, $38.56 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
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 25 mapped sitesAll 26 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. 26 of the 26 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.
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 001 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | yes | 61 ft | 107 ft | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | yes | 61 ft | 96 ft | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 003 | rv nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 59 ft | 285 ft | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 004 | rv nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 66 ft | 152 ftPinnacle Creek | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 66 ft | 130 ft | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 006 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 65 ft | 219 ft | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 007 | rv nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 59 ft | 277 ft | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 008 | type not stated | yes | 323 ft | $38.56 | ||
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 12 ft | yes | 84 ft | 157 ft | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 010 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 84 ft | 332 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 011 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 74 ft | 260 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 012 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 74 ft | 231 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 013 | rv nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 72 ft | 141 ft | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 72 ft | 133 ft | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 015 | rv nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 72 ft | 81 ft | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 016 | rv nonelectric | 26 ft | yes | 72 ft | 93 ft | $38.56 |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 017 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 89 ft | 143 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 018 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 94 ft | 95 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 019 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 75 ft | 216 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 020 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 62 ft | 143 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 021 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 62 ft | 148 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 022 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 80 ft | 82 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 023 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 37 ft | 220 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 024 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 37 ft | 184 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 025 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 64 ft | 177 ft | $38.56 | |
| Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground | 026 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 64 ft | 233 ft | $38.56 |
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Tilly Jane Guard StationCrystal Springs Watershed Protection Area (National) · 4.1 miPolallie CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 5.3 mi
Sherwood CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 6.3 mi
Nottingham CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 7.8 mi
Lost Lake Resort and CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 8.0 miFrom I-84 in Hood River - South on highway 35 to Parkdale. Follow signs to Laurance Lake.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Parkdale, 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
Kinnikinnick (Laurance Lake) Campground is in Oregon’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Maxine Dexter (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →