Quinn Meadow Horse Camp
1Heads up1 fire 32 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25–$29Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Quinn Meadow Horse Campground is situated along the Cascasde Lake Highway within Central Oregon's Cascade range. Keep reading
Recreation
Quinn Creek Trail, which begins in the campground, follows Quinn Creek past the north end of Hosmer Lake and ties into the Metolius-Windigo Trail. With only a short shuttle between Sparks and Devils Lake, a longer, 11-mile loop can be made by connecting the Katsuk Pond Trail from Devils Lake Trailhead to Quinn Creek, and then on to Sparks Lake via the Metolius-Windigo Horse Trail. The Metolius-Windigo Trail is a long-distance trail open to horseback riders, hikers and mountain bikers. It can be accessed from several trailheads. At over 100 miles in length, this trail begins near the Metolius River headwaters west of Sisters and runs south to Windigo Pass near Crescent Lake. The trail was created in the 1980s, primarily to serve long-distance horseback riders seeking an alternative to the Pacific Crest Trail. Because of its lower elevation, this trail is snow-free longer than trails at higher elevations. It passes through a wide variety of scenic terrain and forest types.
Facilities
Sites are equipped with double or quadruple corrals and horse stalls. A manure pit and watering hole are on-site. Horses may be watered only at Sink Creek, and cleaning up manure, hay and trash is required prior to detarture. The campground is equipped with a picnic shelter, tables, campfire rings, vault toilets and drinking water. Electrical hookups are not available. Ample room for parking vehicles and trailers is available at each site. Horse campgrounds have been designed to accommodate campers with horses. With a limited number of these kinds of facilities, please consider camping in one of the many other campgrounds nearby if you do not have a horse.
Natural Features
Spring-fed Quinn Creek, which flows into Hosmer Lake, sits adjacent to the campground. Quinn Meadow spreads south from the campground. The area provides habitat for mammals such as mule deer, coyotes and bears. Migratory birds and native fish also call the area home.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors enjoy traveling the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, a 66-mile drive through the Cascade Mountain Range that weaves through snow-capped peaks and alpine lakes, highlighting the beauty of central Oregon.
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
Horse campgrounds have been designed to accommodate campers with horses. With a limited number of these kinds of facilities, please consider camping in one of the many other campgrounds nearby if you do not have a horse.
Horses require certified weed-seed-free hay or feed
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment and tires before using lake or trails.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
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
- 26 · 26 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Not allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…picnic shelter, tables, campfire rings, vault toilets and drinking water. Electrical hookups are not…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campfire rings, vault toilets and drinking water. Electrical hookups are not available. Ample room…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Night sky · 431st darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$29 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
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 26 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 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Loop 1 | 001 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 881 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 002 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 98 ft | 762 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 003 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 90 ft | 850 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 004 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 36 ft | 98 ft | 732 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 005 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 109 ft | 823 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 006 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 716 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 007 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 36 ft | 115 ft | 762 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 008 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 86 ft | 665 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 009 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 112 ft | 683 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 010 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 97 ft | 589 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 011 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 97 ft | 518 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 012 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 125 ft | 510 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 013 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 94 ft | 297 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 014 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 36 ft | 107 ft | 203 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 015 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 164 ft | 155 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 016 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 36 ft | 94 ft | 306 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 017 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 97 ft | 417 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 018 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | 466 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 019 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 36 ft | 91 ft | 540 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 020 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 34 ft | 86 ft | 512 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 021 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 36 ft | 70 ft | 567 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 022 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 70 ft | 605 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 023 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 32 ft | 84 ft | 561 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 024 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 605 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 025 - 2 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 715 ft | $25–$29 |
| Loop 1 | 026 - 4 Horse | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 695 ft | $25–$29 |
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 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Elk Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 1.6 mi
Mallard Marsh CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.4 mi
Point Campground - DeschutesDeschutes National Forest · 2.4 mi
Little Fawn CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.4 mi
South Campground - Hosmer Lake (OR)Deschutes National Forest · 2.5 miDevils Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.7 miFrom Bend, travel southwest on Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway for 31.2 miles to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sunriver, 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
Quinn Meadow Horse Camp 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 →