Little Fawn Campground
1Heads up1 fire 34 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 87 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Little Fawn Group Camp, 37 miles southwest of the town of Bend, is located on the southeastern shores of Elk Lake. Keep reading
Recreation
Elk Lake provides the opportunity for boating, windsurfing, water skiing, fishing and swimming. A nice beach and large day-use area provide plenty of shoreline for swimming. A boat ramp is located within the campground.
Facilities
Little Fawn Group Camp offers all single-family camp sites and on a First Come First Serve. The campground accommodates tent and RV camping, but electrical hookups are not available. Sites are equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
From various points around Elk Lake you can catch glimpses of South Sister and Mt. Bachelor. Wetlands, diverse forests and rocky slopes near the campground provide habitat for shorebirds, porcupine, deer, bats and the occasional black bear.
Nearby Attractions
Lava Lands Visitor Center in nearby Bend, Oregon, and the unique geological landscape of Newberry National Volcanic Monument, draw visitors to the region as well. Visitors enjoy traveling the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway which climbs through the Cascades on a 66-mile drive weaving past snow-capped peaks and alpine lakes.
What the agency tells you
The camping fee includes entry for 1 vehicle and 1 legally towed vehicle, any extra vehicles will be subject to an extra vehicle fee at the campground.
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment and tires before using lake or trails
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
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.
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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.
Please Note: The Little Fawn Group Area (21-31) is no longer rented as a group site. These sites are available individually on a first-come-first-served basis. We are actively working on updating the site listings for this campground.
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
- 8
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features From various points…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 393rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 7 of the 8 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.
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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.
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, $25 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
8 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 7 mapped sitesAll 8 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 8 of the 8 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. 7 of the 8 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 LITTLE FAWN GROUP CAMP | LFG021-31 | type not stated | 30 ft | 262 ft | 449 ft | ||
| LITTLE FAWN GROUP CAMP | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 83 ft | 150 ft | 23 ft | $25 |
| LITTLE FAWN GROUP CAMP | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 24 ft | 134 ft | 65 ft | $25 |
| LITTLE FAWN GROUP CAMP | 006 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 24 ft | 157 ft | 65 ft | $25 |
| LITTLE FAWN GROUP CAMP | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 30 ft | 126 ft | 119 ft | $25 |
| LITTLE FAWN GROUP CAMP | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 30 ft | 142 ft | 134 ft | $25 |
| LITTLE FAWN GROUP CAMP | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 41 ft | 109 ft | 170 ft | $25 |
| LITTLE FAWN GROUP CAMP | 010 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 151 ft | 191 ft | 306 ft | $25 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
South Campground - Hosmer Lake (OR)Deschutes National Forest · 0.5 mi
Mallard Marsh CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 0.5 mi
Point Campground - DeschutesDeschutes National Forest · 0.7 mi
Elk Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 1.3 mi
Quinn Meadow Horse CampDeschutes National Forest · 2.4 mi
Lava Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 3.6 miFrom Bend, travel southwest on Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway for 35.5 miles. Turn onto Forest Road 4625 and travel 1.7 miles east to the campground entrance.
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 Fawn Campground 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 →