Rainbow Bay
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This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Rainbow Bay sits on the banks of scenic Lake of the Woods in close proximity to several wilderness areas. This group picnic site offers visitors opportunities to enjoy the serenity of the area while taking advantage of the multitude of recreational opportunities it has to offer. Visitors enjoy hiking on trails leading into towering conifer forests, picnicking at the beach or paddling a canoe along the shore at sunset. Keep reading
Recreation
Rainbow Bay offers a great location for picnicking, fishing, swimming and boating. In the winter months visitors can take advantage of skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling. Anglers enjoy fishing from shoreline or boat for rainbow and brown trout, Kokanee salmon, bass and perch. Family picnics, playing on the beach, swimming, kayaking and canoeing are wonderful ways to spend a warm afternoon along the waterfront.
Facilities
The site is equipped with several picnic tables, extended barbeque grills, drinking water and flush toilets. There is a boat ramp area and large beach area near this site. A nearby resort offers visitors basic amenities, lodging and dining.
Natural Features
Fremont National Forest is hemmed in by towering snow-capped peaks and wide-open sage basins. The nearby Sky Lakes Wilderness, designated by Congress in 1984, is a land of lakes, rocky ridges and timbered slopes. It is approximately 6 miles wide and 27 miles long, with elevations ranging from 3,800 feet in the canyon of the Middle Fork of the Rogue River to a lofty 9,495 feet at the top of Mount McLoughlin. More than 200 pools of water, from mere ponds to lakes of 30 to 40 acres, dot the landscape. Wildlife viewing is plentiful in the area, as diverse habitats support a variety of species. Large mammals, such as mule deer, Rocky Mountain elk and pronghorn antelope, find homes in the the forests, while several varieties of trout inhabit lakes and streams. In the spring and fall, migrating geese, ducks and swans frame the Oregon sky. Black bears, mountain lions and bobcats also find homes in the forest.
Nearby Attractions
The Crater Lake National Park is a popular attraction, where visitors can learn about its unique natural and cultural history. At 1,943 feet deep, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and one of the ten deepest lakes in the world. Visitors also enjoy the 172 miles of diverse river and mountain landscapes along the Rogue-Umpqua National Scenic Byway. The scenic drive travels from rolling oak-covered hills and towering coniferous forests to roaring white water rapids and incised intercanyon lava flows. The highway travels alongside the Upper Rogue and North Umpqua Wild and Scenic Rivers that contain world-class fisheries.
What the agency tells you
This is a day use area only; no overnight camping
For more info call the Klamath Falls Ranger Station at 541-885-3400
Site can accommodate up to 100 people
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Click here for more information about Fremont-Winema National Forest
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.
Check In Time: 8:00 am Check Out Time: 10:00 pm
Parking is $10 per vehicle Saturday Parking is $15 per vehicle
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…barbeque grills, drinking water and flush toilets. There is a boat ramp area and large beach area…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…picnic tables, extended barbeque grills, drinking water and flush toilets. There is a boat ramp area and…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 484th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Nothing here to sleep in
The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
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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 · 12
What you actually pay
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
| AREA RAINBOW BAY | GS1 | day use | 21 ft | yes | 311 ft | 356 ft | $130 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Aspen Point (Lake of the Woods, OR)Winema National Forest · 0.5 mi
Sunset - Lake of the Woods (OR)Winema National Forest · 0.7 miSunset Campground @ Lake of the WoodsWinema National Forest · 0.9 mi
Fish Lake Campground - Rogue RiverRogue River National Forest · 5.7 mi
Doe Point CampgroundRogue River National Forest · 6.0 mi
Fourmile Lake CampgroundWinema National Forest · 6.7 miFrom Klamath Falls travel 33 miles northwest on Highway 140. Turn south on Forest Road 3701 and continue .6 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Rocky Point, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 23°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 · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Rainbow Bay 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 →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyCliff BentzU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJeff MerkleyU.S. Senator · Oregon
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRon WydenU.S. Senator · Oregon
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Rainbow Bay has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Cliff Bentz, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 2nd district. Rainbow Bay, Winema National Forest, Oregon carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Rainbow Bay (Winema National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Rainbow Bay has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. Rainbow Bay, Winema National Forest, Oregon carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Rainbow Bay (Winema National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Rainbow Bay has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. Rainbow Bay, Winema National Forest, Oregon carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Rainbow Bay (Winema National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com