Little Cultus Campground
1Heads up1 fire 45 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $27–$29Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 28All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Little Cultus Lake Campground is located on Little Cultus Lake just south of Cultus Lake proper. Keep reading
Recreation
Little Cultus Lake has a gentle sloping bottom making it ideal for wading and swimming while nearby hiking offer acces to the Three Sisters Wilderness. There is a boat launch area within this campground.
Facilities
There is a boat ramp at the campground, but please note there is a 10 mph speed limit on the lake. Most of the campsites are located under the tree canopy in close proximity to the lakeshore.
Natural Features
The lake spans 175 acres hosting rainbow and brook trout.
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
Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per 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.
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
Everything else this campground posts · 5
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
- 28
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Boating
- Night sky · 304th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
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
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 rates for this season, $27–$29 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
29 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 28 mapped sitesAll 29 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 29 of the 29 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. 28 of the 29 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop 1 | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 95 ft | 343 ft | 1,929 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 002 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 95 ft | 346 ft | 1,837 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 003 Host | host pad | 40 ft | 136 ft | 1,573 ft | $16.39 | |
| Loop 1 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 166 ft | 85 ft | 1,291 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 239 ft | 1,093 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 70 ft | 227 ft | 1,158 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 007 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 65 ft | 184 ft | 1,091 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 193 ft | 1,039 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 69 ft | 129 ft | 1,025 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 69 ft | 90 ft | 957 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 77 ft | 106 ft | 883 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 012 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 100 ft | 205 ft | 867 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 89 ft | 315 ft | 304 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 133 ft | 303 ft | 200 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 015 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 119 ft | 168 ft | 105 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 267 ft | 216 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | 84 ft | 196 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | 169 ft | 235 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 68 ft | 308 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 020 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 89 ft | 152 ft | 360 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 021 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 118 ft | 269 ft | 407 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 2 | 022 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 326 ft | 1,919 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 2 | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 260 ft | 1,936 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 2 | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 104 ft | 160 ft | 2,022 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 2 | 025 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 111 ft | 81 ft | 2,151 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 2 | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 116 ft | 2,236 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 2 | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 205 ft | 2,226 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 2 | 028 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 273 ft | 2,195 ft | $27–$29 |
| Loop 2 | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 76 ft | 335 ft | 2,142 ft | $27–$29 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 29 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Quinn River CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 1.7 mi
Rock Creek Campground (Deschutes National Forest, OR)Deschutes National Forest · 2.7 mi
Cultus Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.9 mi
Cultus Lake Boat In - West CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 3.0 miElk Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 3.0 mi
Cultus Lake Boat In - Little Cove CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 3.1 miFrom Bend, OR: Travel 46.0 miles southwest on Cascade Lakes Hwy (46), then 0.8 miles west on Forest Road 4635, then 1.7 south on Forest Road 4630, and then 1.0 miles west on Forest Road 4636
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Three Rivers, 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
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
Little Cultus 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 →