Perry South Campground
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $24–$48Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 9184 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located in the high desert region of central Oregon, Perry South Campground sits on the shores of Lake Billy Chinook in the Deschutes National Forest. It is a popular destination for outdoor enthusiasts to enjoy the area's scenic beauty and year-round recreational activities. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing and motorized boating top the list of recreational activities for visitors. Hikers should be sure to check out nearby Balancing Rocks Overlook, just west of Perry South Campground. Water enthusiasts of all types will enjoy the opportunities available. Motorized and non-motorized boats share the vicinity with swimmers and water skiers braving the cold, clear waters of Lake Billy Chinook. The day use are is a parking fee area; daily parking passes are $5. PGE also honors the NW Forest Pass and the America the Beautiful Passes. Boat slips are reservable with your campsite reservation.
Facilities
Picnic areas and scenic overlooks, along with the conveniences of firewood, drinking water and vault toilets, give visitors the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors in a comfortable camping environment. The campground has a boat ramp, and dock space is available by reservation.
Natural Features
Lake Billy Chinook is the highlight of the area. The lake, created by Round Butte Dam, fills the canyons of the Crooked, Metolius and Deschutes Rivers. Within these three large arms is 72 miles of shoreline, supporting fish habitats for bass, trout, salmon, whitefish, suckers, minnows and dace. Rugged hills and a diverse evergreen forest surround the lake, providing homes for mammals such as mule deer, coyote, black-tailed jackrabbit and cougars. Contact Info Between 05/22/2026 and 09/13/2026 this location is staffed. Please call (541) 325-5315 to speak with local staff. From 09/14/2026 to 05/28/2027 this location is unstaffed. Please call (541) 325-5292 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors may want to explore the Tam-a-lau Trail, a scenic hike that starts on a peninsula at the confluence of the Crooked River and the Deschutes River in Cove Palisades State Park. Under the designation of a Wild and Scenic River, nearby Metolius River is nestled in a forested valley west of Mt. Jefferson. Its clear, cold and constant waters support flyfishing and whitewater boating. Lava Lands Visitor Center in nearby Bend, Oregon, offers visitors the opportunity to learn about the diverse landscape and history of the area through interpretive programs and exhibits.
Charges & Cancellations
A service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full details see the Recreation.Gov, Rules & Reservation Policies.
What the agency tells you
ROUTE: The route using Highway 97 and passing through Cove Palisades State Park has the most pavement and adequately maintained gravel roads. The last couple of miles of gravel can be challenging for large RVs, trailers, and these vehicles passing each other. All alternate routes (from Highway 20) include rough, teeth-rattling, gravel Forest Service roads.
NOTICES: Boat slips are reservable for $10 per day. Reserve online. Please be aware that there is no beach or designated swimming access at Perry South. The only developed lake access is an active boat launch.
Check-In/Out: Sites must be occupied each night. Check-in starts at 4 PM. Check-out is 12 PM. Sites unoccupied by 12 PM the day after the start of the reservation will be forfeited without refund and resold. Call the campground office (541-325-5315) if you cannot arrive the first day of your reservation.
Everything else this campground posts · 12
Generators: Generator use is permitted from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM. Due to customer feedback, we ask that campers refrain from using open-frame, construction-style generators, as they create excessive noise and may violate our peace and quiet rules. Generators are PROHIBITED after 8 PM and before 8 AM including to power medical devices or other equipment.
Parking: There is a $10 fee per day for each extra vehicle. One vehicle is included with single campsite, two with a double site. Please check your site's driveway length. This may limit the number and size of vehicles at your site.
Maximum Occupancy: Standard Sites = 6 persons. Double Site = 12 persons.
Boats: See the Oregon State Marine Board for boater regulations.
RV Water Tanks: Please fill your water tanks before arriving. We do not have fill stations. Filling at campsite water standpipes is prohibited.
Day Use: Day use parking permits are required at this location. Campers can display their camping receipt. Daily parking permits are $10. Northwest Forest Passes and Interagency America the Beautiful Passes are honored.
Registration: If you booked for someone else, please update the reservation with their information. The person listed is responsible for the activities of everyone at the site.
Wildfires: Before arrival, check your destination for wildfires , fire restrictions and air quality .
Non-Refundable Fees: Service fees such as reservation fees, cancellation fees, and change fees are non-refundable. They are retained by the reservation service contractor, not by PGE or the U.S. Forest Service.
This campground is managed by Portland General Electric, under a partnership with the U.S. Forest Service as a part of the Pelton Round Butte Hydroelectric Project FERC No. 2030. Contact PGE Parks and Recreation for more information: PortlandGeneral.com/parks, 503-464-8515, pgeparks@pgn.com. More Information: Park Rules, Boater Regulations, Deschutes National Forest, Portland General Electric.
Firewood: Buy it where you burn it. Did you know? Invasive insects and diseases can hitchhike in on logs, and they can destroy forests. Keep firewood local: under 10 miles is best, and 50 is too far. Learn more: dontmovefirewood.org
Cannabis: Please remember that Perry South is on federal lands. While cannabis is legal in Oregon, possession and use are illegal on National Forest lands including in campgrounds.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 91 · 5 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- 9
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- 61 of 91 sites
- Shade
- 61 of 91 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…of firewood, drinking water and vault toilets, give visitors the opportunity to enjoy the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…along with the conveniences of firewood, drinking water and vault toilets, give visitors the opportunity to…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Mentioned
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Paddling
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 521st darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 84 of the 91 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 · 16
What you actually pay
“Parking: There is a $10 fee per day for each extra vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$48 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.
“A service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full details see the Recreation.Gov, Rules & Reservation Policies.” · 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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
91 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 54 mapped sitesAll 91 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. 79 of the 91 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Docks | Boat Slip 01 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 02 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 03 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 04 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 05 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 06 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 07 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 08 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 09 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 10 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 11 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 12 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 13 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 14 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 15 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 16 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 17 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 18 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 19 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 20 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 21 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 22 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 23 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 24 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 25 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 26 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 27 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 28 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 29 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Docks | Boat Slip 30 | mooring | $10 | ||||
| Double Site | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 136 ft | 1,655 ft | $24–$48 | |
| Hike-To | 027 | hike to | 15 ft | 48 ft | 176 ft | ||
| Hike-To | 028 | hike to | 15 ft | 48 ft | 131 ft | ||
| Hike-To | 030 | hike to | 15 ft | 80 ft | 202 ft | ||
| LOWE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 78 ft | 2,149 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 2,071 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 1,997 ft | $24–$48 | ||
| LOWE | 005 | type not stated | 30 ft | 1,603 ft | |||
| LOWE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 1,528 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 1,461 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 118 ft | 1,301 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 118 ft | 1,217 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 113 ft | 1,091 ft | $24–$48 |
| LOWE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 78 ft | 957 ft | $24–$48 |
| LOWE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 75 ft | 886 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 69 ft | 812 ft | $24–$48 |
| LOWE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 744 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 99 ft | 659 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 99 ft | 580 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 47 ft | 274 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 47 ft | 310 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 023 | type not stated | 20 ft | 460 ft | |||
| LOWE | 025 | type not stated | 465 ft | ||||
| LOWE | 026 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 126 ft | 492 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 029 | type not stated | 147 ft | ||||
| LOWE | 031 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 85 ft | 281 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 032 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 364 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 77 ft | 395 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 77 ft | 464 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 035 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 115 ft | 603 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 036 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 124 ft | 821 ft | $24–$48 |
| LOWE | 037 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 103 ft | 952 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 038 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 49 ft | 1,056 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 039 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 49 ft | 1,096 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOWE | 040 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 126 ft | 1,377 ft | $24–$48 |
| LOWE | 041 | type not stated | 42 ft | 1,506 ft | |||
| Tent Only | 020 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 80 ft | 355 ft | $24–$48 | |
| Tent Only | 021 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 63 ft | 399 ft | $24–$48 | |
| Tent Only | 022 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 113 ft | 507 ft | $24–$48 | |
| Tent Only | 024 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 81 ft | 446 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 043 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 103 ft | 3,092 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 044 | type not stated | 33 ft | 3,178 ft | |||
| UPPE | 045 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 115 ft | 3,236 ft | $24–$48 |
| UPPE | 046 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 67 ft | 3,551 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 047 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 67 ft | 3,603 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 048 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 111 ft | 3,731 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 049 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 3,838 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 050 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 3,934 ft | $24–$48 | ||
| UPPE | 051 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 108 ft | 4,046 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 052 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 144 ft | 4,188 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 053 | type not stated | 20 ft | 4,210 ft | |||
| UPPE | 054 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 108 ft | 4,073 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 055 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 120 ft | 3,470 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 056 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 103 ft | 3,351 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 057 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 103 ft | 3,248 ft | $24–$48 |
| UPPE | 058 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 77 ft | 3,109 ft | $24–$48 |
| UPPE | 059 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 77 ft | 3,043 ft | $24–$48 |
| UPPE | 060 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 123 ft | 2,922 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 061 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 133 ft | 2,789 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPPE | 062 | hike to | 30 ft | 121 ft | 2,648 ft | ||
| UPPE | 063 | hike to | 20 ft | 121 ft | 2,528 ft |
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.
25 of 91 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Warm Springs, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 27°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
Perry South 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 →