Paulina Lake Campground
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $27From, per site
- Sites
- 6766 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Paulina Lake Campground is located 6,350 ft. above sea level in the caldera of Newberry Volcano, on the edge of the beautiful Paulina Lake. Conveniently located within Newberry National Monument, visitors to this area are taken aback by the incredible views this has to offer, highlighting volcanic landscapes intermixed with diverse forests, typical of central Oregon. Popular for both its geological significance and multitude of recreational activities, Paulina Lake Campground is ideal for individual and family camping excursions. Keep reading
For more information about the Newberry National Volcanic Monument, please visit: https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/deschutes/recarea/?recid=66159 Recreation The unique location of Paulina Lake Campground offers visitors opportunities to hike shoreline trails and alpine vistas. Visitors can also take advantage of time on the lake, boating, kayaking and fishing. For anglers, this lake offers fantastic fishing opportunities. Spanning a surface area of 1,531 acres, the lake supports rainbow trout, brown trout and Kokanee salmon. In September, the outlet of Paulina Lake may be choked with Kokanee moving to spawn in Paulina Creek.
Facilities
Paulina Lake campground has excellent sites for all forms of camping and plenty of large sites for RVs. Picnic areas, boating, shoreline trails, and stunning views of the lake, along with the conveniences of drinking water and flush toilets, give visitors the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors while still having many of the conveniences of home.
Natural Features
Paulina Lake is located within the collapsed crater, or "caldera" of Newberry Volcano. Nearly five miles in diameter, this caldera encircles the basins of Paulina Lake, and its twin, East Lake. Neither lake receives water from an inlet stream, but instead, rely on rain, snowmelt and hot springs for water. Paulina Creek drains the lake and has chiseled a narrow gorge through the caldera's west wall creating a remarkable twin waterfall. Thermal vents and hot springs along the lake's northeast edge help create a highly productive ecosystem. Wetlands, diverse forests, and rocky slopes near the campground provide a necessary habitat for shorebirds, porcupine, deer, bats and the occasional black bear. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 323-1746.
Nearby Attractions
Lava Lands Visitor Center in nearby Bend, Oregon, 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 the Lava River Cave, also located in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. At 5,211 feet (1,588 m) in length, the northwest section of the cave is the longest continuous lava tube in Oregon. A rustic lodge near the campground, operating under a special use permit from the Deschutes National Forest, offers visitors lodging, last minute essentials and a cafe.
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
This campground has no beach access. It has great access for those wishing to launch trailered boats. The Day Use area outside the campground can be used to launch kayaks and Paddle boards. Fishing and swimming off the boat dock is prohibited.
Clean packs, equipment and tires before using lake or trails
Boat launch parking is for day use only and requires a recreation fee separate from camping fees. Park your boat trailers and vehicles at your campsite please.
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Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.
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
During your time in Central Oregon, you can find wildfire, prescribed fire and smoke information at centraloregonfire.org
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.
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.
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.
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
- 67
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 90 ft
- Paved pads
- 13 of 67
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…the conveniences of drinking water and flush toilets, give visitors the opportunity to enjoy the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…the lake, along with the conveniences of drinking water and flush toilets, give visitors the opportunity to…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Waterfall, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 463rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 66 of the 67 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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $27 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
67 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 66 mapped sitesAll 67 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 67 of the 67 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. 66 of the 67 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Paulina Lake Campground | 01 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 172 ft | 201 ft | $27 | ||
| Paulina Lake Campground | 02 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 82 ft | 175 ft | 292 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 03 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 121 ft | 317 ft | 353 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 04 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 47 ft | 208 ft | 368 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 05 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 47 ft | 185 ft | 407 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 06 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 156 ft | 356 ft | 549 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 07 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 269 ft | 566 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 08 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 365 ft | 603 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 09 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 297 ft | 511 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 10 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 336 ft | 500 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 11 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 90 ft | 419 ft | 577 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 12 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 384 ft | 462 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 13 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 71 ft | 498 ft | 547 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 14 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 549 ft | 551 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 15 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 69 ft | 517 ft | 485 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 16 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 60 ft | 557 ft | 420 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 17 | type not stated | 53 ft | 612 ft | 514 ft | |||
| Paulina Lake Campground | 18 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 41 ft | 584 ft | 416 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 19 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 112 ft | 685 ft | 528 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 20 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 69 ft | 615 ft | 419 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 21 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 43 ft | 672 ft | 463 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 22 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 106 ft | 770 ft | 568 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 23 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 43 ft | 668 ft | 476 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 24 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 74 ft | 631 ft | 472 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 25 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 127 ft | 754 ft | 596 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 26 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 61 ft | 556 ft | 461 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 27 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 95 ft | 627 ft | 555 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 28 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 35 ft | 496 ft | 426 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 29 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 67 ft | 501 ft | 502 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 30 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 35 ft | 470 ft | 423 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 31 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 67 ft | 438 ft | 480 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 32 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 47 ft | 401 ft | 374 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 33 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 47 ft | 358 ft | 367 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 34 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 65 ft | 242 ft | 312 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 35 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 85 ft | 209 ft | 385 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 36 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 100 ft | 126 ft | 331 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 37 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 65 ft | 239 ft | 247 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 38 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 105 ft | 143 ft | 215 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 39 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 59 ft | 267 ft | 187 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 40 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 50 ft | 281 ft | 133 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 43 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 55 ft | 170 ft | 121 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 44 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | yes | 55 ft | 266 ft | 156 ft | $27 |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 45 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | yes | 55 ft | 249 ft | 199 ft | $27 |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 46 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 68 ft | 219 ft | 254 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 47 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 55 ft | 137 ft | 175 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 48 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 52 ft | 107 ft | 249 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 49 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 52 ft | 142 ft | 325 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 50 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 52 ft | 96 ft | 300 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 51 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 57 ft | 198 ft | 329 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 52 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 61 ft | 70 ft | 360 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 53 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 52 ft | 160 ft | 373 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 54 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 79 ft | 80 ft | 438 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 55 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 52 ft | 214 ft | 481 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 56 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 126 ft | 514 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 57 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 52 ft | 206 ft | 524 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 58 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 181 ft | 476 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 59 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 76 ft | 412 ft | 418 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 60 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 74 ft | 426 ft | 365 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 61 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 61 ft | 467 ft | 352 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 62 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 41 ft | 544 ft | 382 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 63 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 61 ft | 434 ft | 294 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 64 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 103 ft | 512 ft | 295 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 65 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 50 ft | 434 ft | 251 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 66 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 50 ft | 411 ft | 208 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 67 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 409 ft | 200 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 68 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 50 ft | 328 ft | 139 ft | $27 | |
| Paulina Lake Campground | 69 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 58 ft | 367 ft | 151 ft | $27 |
25 of 67 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Newberry Group Camp SiteNewberry National Volcanic Monument · 1.0 mi
Chief Paulina Horse CampNewberry National Volcanic Monument · 1.2 mi
Little Crater CampgroundNewberry National Volcanic Monument · 1.6 mi
East Lake CampgroundNewberry National Volcanic Monument · 3.3 mi
Cinder Hill CampgroundNewberry National Volcanic Monument · 4.2 mi
Cinder Hill CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 4.2 miFrom Bend go south 23.5 miles on Hwy 97 to Road 21 (Paulina Lake Road). Take Road 21 east for about 12.9 miles.
From La Pine go north 5 miles on Hwy 97 to Road 21 (Paulina Lake Road). Take Road 21 east for about 12.9 miles.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for La Pine, OR
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
Paulina Lake 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 →