Lost Lake - Willamette (OR)
1Heads up1 fire 2.6 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $21From, per site
- Sites
- 1915 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lost Lake Campground is adjacent to Highway 20 near the summit of Santiam Pass in the Willamette National Forest. This campground is not Lost Lake Resort in the Mt. Hood National Forest. This rustic campground is located on the west shore of shallow Lost Lake. The water level of the lake fluctuates seasonally and is quite low in summer with water loving willows crowding the marshy shallows of the lake. This is a popular spot during fishing and hunting seasons. This campground has 15 single campsites. Trailers are not recommended at this location. There are picnic tables, fire rings, and three single vault toilets. No drinking water is available. Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly. Keep reading
Nearby Attractions
Lost Lake, Big Lake Day Use and Trail areas, Sand Mountain Lookout, Big Lake and Big Lake West Campgrounds, Mt Washington Wilderness, and the Pacific Crest Trail. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 967-3917.
What the agency tells you
Lost Lake Campground is adjacent to Highway 20 near the summit of Santiam Pass. The rustic campground is located on the west shore of shallow Lost Lake. The water level of the lake fluctuates seasonally and is quite low in summer with water loving willows crowding the marshy shallows of the lake. This is a popular spot during fishing and hunting seasons.Please use caution around the area where Lost Lake drains. The hole may not be stable and could break under weight.
First come, first serve sites.
Single Campsites - $21 per night Extra Vehicles - $10 per vehicle, per night
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Trailers not recommended.
OHV use in the campground is strictly prohibited for any purpose other than entering or leaving the campground. Regulations for the Santiam Pass Summer Motorized Recreation Area (please, visit the Willamette National Forest page for the Motor Vehicle Use Map and restrictions).
Camping is not allowed more than 14 days in a 60 day period.
Use of chainsaws in the campground is prohibited.
Dogs MUST be on leash at all times within the campground.
Campfires allowed until and unless otherwise posted. Fire bans are common during summer months. Please plan accordingly.
Check-In 2:00PM
Check-Out 12:00PM
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 19 · 15 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 16 of 19 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…rings, and three single vault toilets. No drinking water is available. Campfires allowed until and unless…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Night sky · 450th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- Yes
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 15 of the 19 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.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
“Single Campsites - $21 per night Extra Vehicles - $6 per vehicle, per night” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $21 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 19 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. 19 of the 19 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.
| Lost Lake | 1 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 325 ft | 280 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 10 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 362 ft | 399 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 11 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 133 ft | 259 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 12 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 262 ft | 118 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 13 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 133 ft | 126 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 14 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 262 ft | 168 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 15 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 136 ft | 395 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 2 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 173 ft | 259 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 3 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 173 ft | 108 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 4 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 153 ft | 109 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 5 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 153 ft | 159 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 6 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 157 ft | 188 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 7 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 157 ft | 150 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 8 | tent only nonelectric | 50 ft | 387 ft | 136 ft | $21 |
| Lost Lake | 9 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 362 ft | 114 ft | $21 |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | $21 | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | type not stated | $21 | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 4 | type not stated | $21 | |||
| Scan and Pay | Standard | type not stated | 20 ft | 195 ft | $21 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Big LakeWillamette National Forest · 4.2 mi
Big Lake West CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 4.3 mi
Fish Lake Remount Depot CabinsWillamette National Forest · 5.0 mi
Big Meadows Horse CampWillamette National Forest · 5.6 miBig PoolWillamette National Forest · 5.6 miLost Lake Campground is located 28 miles northeast of McKenzie Bridge, Oregon, just off of Hwy. 20.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Black Butte Ranch, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 23°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
Lost Lake - Willamette (OR) 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“the agency's own site records list "CELL PHONE SERVICE" on 16 of 19 campsites here”