Shadow Bay Campground (Waldo Lake)
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $29From, per site
- Season
- June 1 – September 30Open June 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This 92-site campground is less busy than its neighboring campground, North Waldo , resulting in a quieter atmosphere. It is situated in a lower and wetter landscape than North Waldo and Islet Campground and supports thicker and more diverse groundcover and generally more mosquitoes earlier in the season, so come prepared June to mid-August. Garbage containers and gray water disposal areas are available at the campground. There are three areas of the campground that can be reserved as group sites. Group Site B can accommodate 120 people and 19 vehicles. Group Site C can accommodate 120 people and 17 vehicles. Keep reading
Group Site E can accommodate 30 people and 5 vehicles. Hikers, equestrians, and mountain bikers can traverse the Shoreline Trail to the historic South Waldo Shelter and then continue on the Jim Weaver Loop #3590 . Winding around to the west side of the lake, the public can catch glimpses of the lake through the high-elevation forest, or capture broad views of the High Cascades mountains from open viewpoints.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 7
What you actually pay
“Single Campsites - $29 per night Multiple Campsites - $58 per night Group Sites Site B and C - $465 per night Site E - $130 per night Extra Vehicles - $10 per vehicle, per night Day Use - $10 per vehicle, per day Camp…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($29), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 6
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Shadow BayWillamette National Forest · 0.2 mi
Islet CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 3.9 miGold Lake CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 4.6 mi
North WaldoWillamette National Forest · 4.7 miGold Lake Campground (OR)Willamette National Forest · 4.7 mi
Princess Creek CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 7.8 miThe 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 June night 38°F, day 63°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical September night 36°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Shadow Bay Campground (Waldo Lake) is in Oregon’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Val Hoyle (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →