U.S. Forest Service · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR

Lost Lake Campground, Resort and Day Use Area

4Heads up4 fires, nearest 21 mi
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Latigo Lane fire · 21 mi away · updated Oct 16, 2026
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Grasshopper fire · 23 mi away · 93,972 acres · 98% contained · updated Sep 30, 2026
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The Narrows fire · 28 mi away · 305 acres · 98% contained · updated Sep 16, 2026
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High Lava fire · 30 mi away · 2,899 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 16, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Right now
Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
Drawn from the record · 3,260 ft · 66% tree cover · water within reach · Bortle 4 sky
3,260 ftElevation
798 ftWater · an unnamed pond
8.4 miNE of Mount Hood Villages, OR
66%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 726th darkest of 770 in OR

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Recreation : Lost Lake Campground offers an abundance of activities. Campers have access to a resort store, which offers: canoe, kayak, wooden boats, metal fishing boats and stand-up paddleboard rentals. There are a number of hiking and biking trails near the campground ranging in length from 0.25 mile to over 100 miles. Other activities include bird watching, berry picking, swimming, waterfall finding or simply enjoying one of the many scheduled activities such as telescoped stargazing, special Forest Service events or live music. Keep reading

Facilities : Lost Lake Campground is adjacent to a full service resort with a variety of campsites to accommodate all types of visitors, including group, family and single campsites. In addition to the campsites, there are cabins, yurts, lodge rooms and an extensively stocked general store on site. There is drinking water at designated locations and pit toilets throughout. Each site has a designated tenant location, picnic table and fire ring. Firewood is available for purchase at the general store. This campground has a minimum three night stay on weekends and holidays. Fish Your National Forests : Types of fishing available include: Wade, Shore, Non-motorized boat, Float tube, Fly, Spin, Bait. ADA Accessible fishing access with fishing pier, boat launch, and fish cleaning station. The Lost Lake Resort operates under a special use permit issued by the Mt. Hood National Forest.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Pit Toilets
“…water at designated locations and pit toilets throughout. Each site has a designated tenant…”
Drinking water
Yes
“…stocked general store on site. There is drinking water at designated locations and pit toilets throughout.…”
Boat ramp
Yes
Store
Nearby
Firewood
Sold here
Source: Stated in the agency description
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Waterfall, Lake
Source: Stated in the agency description

Phone before you drive

recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Day use fee : $15/vehicle/day Camping fee : Fee info can be found on Lost Lake Resort's website.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight48°Mostly Cloudy then Chance Light Rain27% rain
Saturday52°Light Rain Likely then Partly Sunny62% rain
Saturday Night38°Mostly Clear
Sunday56°Partly Sunny

NWS forecast for Mount Hood Villages, 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.

80°32°20°

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.

Measured at: GOVERNMENT CAMP, OR (USC00353402), 14 miles away and 720 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

developing
Roadless
Lake1,327 acres · 2 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Mt. Hood Additions13,061 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Eagle16,841 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 4, 2026

Who answers for this land

Maxine Dexter, official portrait

Lost Lake Campground, Resort and Day Use Area 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.