Pine Point Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $28–$56Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2726 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pine Point Campground is located on the shores of Timothy Lake in the shadow of Oregon's Mt. Hood. It is a beautiful place for individuals, families and larger groups to camp and enjoy nature with a standard sites and a large group camp as well as miles of scenic trails around the lake providing endless recreation possibilities. Keep reading
Recreation
Proximity to Timothy Lake allows campers to enjoy a variety of water-related recreation activities, including boating and sailing, as well as swimming, windsurfing and fishing. Anglers can expect a catch of kokanee salmon and a variety of trout. A range of trails are located in the area. The Timothy Lake Trail is popular for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. The 12 miles of relatively level terrain loops trekkers around the lake, providing scenic views of the area. It connects to the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, a lengthy hike that extends across three states, from the borders of Canada and Mexico. Portions of that trail also lead southwest to Clackamas Lake Campground. The Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District is less than 3 miles from the campground. It was built to house forest service workers in the early 1900s. The rustic architecture and historic nature of the buildings and the surrounding area, draws thousands of tourists each year.
Facilities
The campground offers dozens of single-family campsites and five large-group campsites, available for tent and RV camping. Sites are equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. An on-site host is available at the campground. The nearest gas station/convenience store is about 18 miles away, west on Hwy. 26. The nearest grocery store is in Government Camp, about 23 miles away, west on Hwy. 26.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the south shore of the roughly 1,400-acre lake, at an elevation of 3,400 feet. Timothy Lake was created in 1956 as a storage reservoir for the Oak Grove Hydroelectric Project. It is one of the larger lakes in the Mt. Hood National Forest. The campground is nestled in a mixed conifer forest, with many sites with views of the water's edge.
Nearby Attractions
Pine Point is about 28 miles from the base of majestic Mt. Hood, the highest point in Oregon. The historic Timberline Lodge in Government Camp offers scenic views of the snow-capped mountain. Contact Info Between 05/26/2023 and 09/30/2023 this location is staffed. Please call (503) 834-2215 to speak with local staff. From 11/22/2022 to 05/25/2023 this location is unstaffed. Please call (503) 464-8515 for general information.
Charges & Cancellations
A service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For details, see the Recreation.Gov, Rules & Reservation Policies.
What the agency tells you
NOTICE: Pine Point campground accommodates larger groups and is next to a day use area. Sound travels easily and noise levels may vary.
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 the reservation will be forfeited without refund and resold. Call the campground office (503-834-2215) if you cannot arrive the first day of your reservation.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
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.
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 must display their hang tag. 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 Clackamas River Hydroelectric Project FERC No. 2195. Contact PGE Parks and Recreation for more information: PortlandGeneral.com/parks, 503-464-8515, pgeparks@pgn.com. More Information: Park Rules, Boater Regulations , Mt. Hood 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 Timothy Lake 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
- 27 · 13 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 7
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 27 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 1 of 27 campsite records
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake
- Amphitheater
- Berry Picking
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Crawfishing
- Evening Programs
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Horseback riding
- Ranger programs
- Motor Boat
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 26 of the 27 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.
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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 · 18
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, $28–$56 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 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
27 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 27 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. 26 of the 27 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA PINE POINT | 001 | standard nonelectric | 115 ft | 268 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 003 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 294 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 008 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 339 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 009 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 425 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 010 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 381 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 012 | standard nonelectric | yes | 73 ft | 283 ft | $28–$56 |
| AREA PINE POINT | 014 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 272 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 015 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 187 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 016 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 271 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 017 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 234 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 019 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 125 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 020 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 148 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 021 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 213 ft | $28–$56 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 023 | type not stated | 239 ft | |||
| Double Site | 002 | group standard nonelectric | 115 ft | 383 ft | $58 | |
| Double Site | 004 | group standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 360 ft | $58 | |
| Double Site | 005 | group standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 271 ft | $58 | |
| Double Site | 006 | group standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 304 ft | $58 | |
| Double Site | 007 | group standard nonelectric | yes | 121 ft | 408 ft | $58 |
| Double Site | 011 | group standard nonelectric | yes | 101 ft | 412 ft | $58 |
| Double Site | 013 | group standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 181 ft | $58 | |
| Double Site | 018 | group standard nonelectric | yes | 60 ft | 167 ft | $58 |
| Double Site | 022 | group standard nonelectric | yes | 84 ft | 130 ft | $58 |
| Double Site | 024 | group standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 125 ft | $58 | |
| Double Site | 025 | group standard nonelectric | 162 ft | 117 ft | $58 | |
| PINE POINT GROUP CAMPGROUND | East Loop Group Camp | group standard area nonelectric | yes | 569 ft | 591 ft | $168 |
| PINE POINT GROUP CAMPGROUND | West Loop Group Camp | group standard area nonelectric | yes | 637 ft | 413 ft | $168 |
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 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hoodview Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 0.6 mi
Stone Creek Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 0.9 miTimothy Lake - Meditation Point CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 1.0 mi
Gone Creek Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 1.3 mi
Oak Fork Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 1.5 mi
North Arm Campground (Timothy Lake, OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 2.5 miFrom Sandy, Oregon, travel east on Highway 26 for approximately 40 miles to Skyline Road/Road 42. Turn right on Skyline Road and continue south for about 9 miles. Turn right on Forest Service Road 57 and travel west for 3 miles, then turn right again at the Pine Point Campground entrance sign.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Rhododendron, 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.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Pine Point Campground (Timothy Lake, 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 →