Lost Creek Campground
3Heads up1 park alert · 2 fires, nearest 24 mi
- Right now
- ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
- Sites
- 16In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
CLOSED ALL YEAR 2026 Lost Creek Campground is managed by the National Park Service. It usually opens in early July and closes in mid-October, depending on weather and other factors. It is for tent campers only--NO RVs, buses, trailers, or vans and truck with toilets. Registration is self-serve on the day of arrival. No advance registration is available. The campground fills by mid-afternoon. The only means of knowing site availability is upon arrival at the campground. The elevation 6,000 ft. (1,829 m).
Facilities
- Toilets
- Portable Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Night sky · 147th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Nothing to book until it reopens
CLOSED ALL YEAR 2026 Lost Creek Campground is located on Pinnacles Road, about 12 miles from park headquarters.
The closure above is the reading. We hold no availability snapshot for this campground, so there’s no thirty-night strip to draw under it.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 2
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 3
What the agency said · 1
CLOSED ALL YEAR 2026 Lost Creek Campground is located on Pinnacles Road, about 12 miles from park headquarters. The campground opens once snow and debris are removed East Rim Drive and Pinnacles Road, and portable toilets are delivered. The opening date is generally July 1. Closing dates shift depending on weather forecasts and other conditions (i.e. hazard or downed trees, road closures) which may require an earlier closing than the established date.
National Park Service · the source publishes no posting date
Filed as emergency from the agency’s own words “downed trees”. That reading is ours.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Mazama Village CampgroundCrater Lake National Park · 6.3 mi
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Broken Arrow CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 18 miDiamond Lake RV ParkUmpqua National Forest · 19 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fort Klamath, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 51°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 19°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Lost Creek 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 →