Rock Creek Campground (Deschutes National Forest, OR)
1Heads up1 fire 47 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $25–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 31All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Rock Creek Campground is located on the western shore of Crane Prairie Reservoir along the Cascade Lakes Highway. Keep reading
Recreation
Crane Prairie Reservoir is known for fishing and boating opportunities. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife manages populations of rainbow trout, mountain whitefish, brook trout and largemouth bass. Fish cleaning stations and a boat ramp are within the campground.
Facilities
Located just off the Cascade Lakes Highway, Rock Creek Campground is spread out along the western shores of Crane Prairie Reservoir. Almost all the sites are large and isolated from the other sites, and many are located right on the shore of the lake. This facility has a boat ramp offering access to Crane Prairie Reservoir. Boat launch parking is for day use only and requires a recreation fee separate from camping fees.
Natural Features
Crane Prairie Reservoir is a great spot for viewing a variety of wildlife. Sandhill cranes, bald eagles and osprey frequent the area. The adjacent forest is home to black-backed woodpecker, Williamson's sapsucker and mountain chickadee. On summer mornings or evenings, visitors may glimpse Rocky Mountain elk grazing the lakeside meadows. Deer, squirrel, beaver and an occasional black bear also find habitat in the surrounding forest.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby Osprey Point is a unique interpretive area where visitors can observe osprey nesting platforms erected after natural snags toppled from age. Visitors enjoy traveling the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway which climbs 66-miles through the Cascade Range, weaving past snow-capped peaks and alpine lakes.
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
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.
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
Everything else this campground posts · 5
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
- 31
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Meadow
- Night sky · 306th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:46 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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$50 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 16:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
32 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 31 mapped sitesAll 32 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. 31 of the 32 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 | 40 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Loop 1 | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 311 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 1 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 279 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 1 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 83 ft | 233 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 1 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 218 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 1 | 006 Multi | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 40 ft | 155 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 1 | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 40 ft | 194 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 1 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 218 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 2 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 83 ft | 486 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 2 | 010 Multi | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 468 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 2 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 116 ft | 535 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 2 | 012 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 93 ft | 651 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 2 | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 688 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 3 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 80 ft | 503 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 3 | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 431 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 3 | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 371 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 3 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 98 ft | 347 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 3 | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 428 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 3 | 019 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 73 ft | 493 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 4 | 020 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 438 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 4 | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 353 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 4 | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 108 ft | 257 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 4 | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 77 ft | 300 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 4 | 024 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 38 ft | 370 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 4 | 025 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 38 ft | 407 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 4 | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 42 ft | 446 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 5 | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 136 ft | 467 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 5 | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 358 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 5 | 029 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 271 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 5 | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 205 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 5 | 031 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 145 ft | 233 ft | $25–$50 |
| Loop 5 | 032 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 145 ft | 377 ft | $25–$50 |
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 32 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Quinn River CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 1.3 mi
Little Cultus CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 2.7 mi
Sheep BridgeDeschutes National Forest · 3.2 miElk Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 3.7 miSheep Bridge CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 3.9 mi
Crane Prairie CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 4.2 miFrom Bend, travel about 50 miles southwest on Cascade Lakes Hwy (46). Campground is on left-hand side of Cascade Lakes Highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Three Rivers, 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
Rock Creek Campground (Deschutes National Forest, OR) 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 →