Princess Creek Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $23–$46Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 29All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located next to Odell Lake, Princess Creek Campground is in the midst of sparkling lakes, tranquil streams and nearby scenic peaks that provide visitors with the perfect backdrop for fishing, boating, hiking and biking throughout the area. Keep reading
Recreation
Odell Lake also offers beautiful campsites tucked away in thick forests and some excellent opportunities for water recreation as boating, fishing and wind surfing are all popular. Boats are the most effective way to fish this lake but be aware of afternoon winds as the lake can get rough. Both motorized and non-motorized boats are allowed on this body of water.
Facilities
Princess Creek Campground can accommodate RV, trailer or tent-campers however water and electric hookups are not available. This is a no water facility so campers will need to bring their own supply. All sites are equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill and the campground has vault toilets available. This campground offers a boat ramp with access to Odell Lake.
Natural Features
This area offers a beautiful mix of Oregon forest types with Douglas fir, white fir, hemlock and a few ponderosa pines towering over a variety of springtime flowers. Huckleberry is common in the underbrush of the campground. Wildlife found in the area include deer, elk, pine martens, ravens, native fish and an occasional black bear. Diamond Peak stands as a sentinel over Odell Lake as one of the blue giants of the Deschutes National Forest and the most prominent peak in the nearby Diamond Peak Wilderness. At an elevation of 8,744 feet, this shield volcano formed as the entire Cascades mountain range was undergoing volcanic activity and uplift.
Nearby Attractions
Campers can explore wilderness areas, rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and approximately 1,600 miles of trails that comprise nearly 2.5 million acres within the Deschutes National Forest and the adjacent Ochoco National Forest. Visitors can enjoy traveling the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, known as Oregon's Highway in the Sky, which climbs into the clouds on a 66-mile drive through the Cascade Range, weaving past snow-capped peaks and alpine lakes. Lava Lands Visitor Center in nearby Bend, Oregon, and the unique geological landscape of Newberry National Volcanic Monument draw visitors to the region as well. It 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 also explore the Lava River Cave, located in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. At 5,211 feet in length, the northwest section of the cave is the longest continuous lava tube in Oregon. A nearby resort on Odell Lake offers lodging and a general store with camping supplies, coffee, snacks and fishing licenses.
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 is a no water facility so campers will need to bring their own supply.
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment and tires before using lake or trails.
Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per single tent site. Two RV’S with tow vehicle per double site or two vehicles per double 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.
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.
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).
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.
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
- 29
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 32 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 available. This campground offers a boat ramp with…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…hookups are not available. This is a no water facility so campers will need to bring their own…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Night sky · 277th 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.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $23–$46 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
30 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 29 mapped sitesAll 30 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 29 of the 30 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 Host | host pad | 223 ft | |||
| Loop 1 | 002 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 99 ft | 327 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 83 ft | 245 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 83 ft | 318 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 67 ft | 302 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 006 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 63 ft | 220 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 67 ft | 326 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 127 ft | 372 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 69 ft | 301 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 61 ft | 346 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 61 ft | 302 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 012 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 65 ft | 273 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 013 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 74 ft | 214 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 59 ft | 237 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 015 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 59 ft | 214 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 016 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 87 ft | 153 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 85 ft | 126 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 018 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 64 ft | 192 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 019 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 77 ft | 160 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 020 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 56 ft | 82 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 022 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 63 ft | 205 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 023 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 56 ft | 48 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 024 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 56 ft | 118 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 025 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 56 ft | 111 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 026 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 83 ft | 30 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 027 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 58 ft | 48 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 028 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 65 ft | 129 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 63 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 030 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 65 ft | 151 ft | $23–$46 |
| Loop 1 | 032 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 69 ft | 81 ft | $23–$46 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 30 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Trapper Creek CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 1.8 mi
Sunset Cove CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.8 miGold Lake CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 3.6 miGold Lake Campground (OR)Willamette National Forest · 4.2 mi
Crescent Lake YurtsDeschutes National Forest · 5.9 mi
Crescent Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 6.0 miFrom Crescent, OR: Travel 12.2 miles west on County Road 61/Crescent Cut-off Road, then 9.1 miles northwest on Highway 58.
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 30°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 20°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
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
Princess 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 →