North Davis Creek Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 14All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
This campground is now open as of August 3rd, 2026, on a First Come First Serve basis through October 17th, 2026. North Davis Creek Campground is located on the western arm of Wickiup Reservoir at the connection to North Davis Creek. This facility offers opportunities for wildlife viewing, as well as access, to Wickiup Reservoir and fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Wickiup Reservoir's relatively warm water and cooler deep channels generate opportunities for fishing. The area is renowned for its brown trout, as well as kokanee and Coho salmon, rainbow trout, brook trout, whitefish and chub. Visitors also enjoy boating, canoeing and swimming.
Facilities
North Davis Creek Campground can accommodate RV, trailer or tent-campers, however, water and electric hookups are not available. All sites are equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill and the campground has vault toilets and drinking water available.
Natural Features
Located on Wickiup Reservoir, North Davis Creek Campground sits beneath a mixed conifer canopy near remnants of past lava flows.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors can explore wilderness areas, rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and approximately hundred of miles of trail. Newberry National Volcanic Monument, approxiately 45 minutes by vehicle, is a great starting point for visitors to learn about the diverse landscape and history of the area through interpretive programs and exhibits. Visitors can explore Lava River Cave, the longest continuous lava tube in Oregon. Visitors enjoy traveling the Cascade Lakes Scenic Bywaywhich climbs 66 miles through the Cascade Range, weaving past snow-capped peaks and alpine lakes.
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
Single site fees include 1 vehicle and 1 legally towed vehicle. Any additional vehicles are subject to an extra vehicle fee on-site, space permitting.
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment and tires before using lake or trails.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
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.
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.
Click here for more information about Deschutes National Forest
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.
During your time in Central Oregon, you can find wildfire, prescribed fire and smoke information at centraloregonfire.org
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
- 14
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…ring with grill and the campground has vault toilets and drinking water available. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and the campground has vault toilets and drinking water available. Natural Features Located on Wickiup…”
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek
- Night sky · 299th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:52 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:52 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 14 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. 14 of the 14 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 | 34 ft | 75 ft | 283 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 93 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 89 ft | 101 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 86 ft | 226 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 104 ft | 104 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 86 ft | 197 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 007 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 104 ft | 82 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 102 ft | 155 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 105 ft | 60 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 136 ft | 111 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 106 ft | 246 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 106 ft | 349 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 013 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 344 ft | $22 |
| Loop 1 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 357 ft | $22 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Reservoir CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.7 mi
Gull Point CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 3.7 mi
West South Twin CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 3.8 mi
South Twin Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 4.0 mi
Sheep BridgeDeschutes National Forest · 4.5 miSheep Bridge CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 4.6 miFrom Bend, OR: Travel 56.2 miles southwest on Cascade Lakes Hwy (46). The campground is on the east side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Crescent Lake, 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
North Davis 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 →