Spring
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:09 UTC
- A night
- $18.26–$40.10When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 62In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Nestled in Deschutes National Forest, Spring Campground offers visitors some of the most stunning scenery in central Oregon and easy access to an abundance of recreational activities in the Cascade region. A favorite among visitors, the sites in this campground are widely-spaced and scattered among a mixed conifer forest, giving it an open and sunny character. The campground looks out to the stunning water of Crescent Lake, and several tent-only sites are on the lake front. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to being a prime location for boating, fishing, swimming, hiking and biking in summer and early fall, Spring Campground offers excellent skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling in the winter months. Crescent Lake Snowpark offers skiers and snowmobilers a base camp for winter excursions. Summit Lake Trail, 9 miles one- way, follows the road leading from Crescent Lake to Summit Lake, offering excellent views across Crescent Lake and highlighting Diamond Peak. Anglers enjoy fishing from boats or the shoreline. Fish species found in the lake include kokanee salmon, mackinaw, rainbow trout, brown trout and mountain whitefish. Summer months offer the best fishing opportunities.
Facilities
Sites at Spring Campground are plentiful, and some can be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. The campground is rarely full, offering a bit more solitude than neighboring campgrounds. Larger groups may reserve a block of 12 campsites. These sites are somewhat isolated from the others and can fit up to about 70 campers and 25 vehicles. Sites are equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are available. A nearby resort on Crescent Lake offers lodging and a general store.
Natural Features
Cresent Lake, nestled in a naturally glaciated basin behind a moraine dam, lies east of the towering Cascade Mountain Range. Its brilliant blue-green water, sandy beaches and water temperature are exceptional for a high-elevation lake. Fantastic nearby peaks, lava flows and old-growth forests provide visitors with breathtaking landscapes, showcasing ecosystems typical of central Oregon. Wildlife found in the area include deer, porcupine, native fish and migratory birds.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors can explore wilderness areas, wild and scenic rivers, lakes and reservoirs and approximately 1,600 miles of trails that comprise nearly 2.5 million acres the Deschutes National Forest and the adjacent Ochoco National Forest. Lava Lands Visitor Center in nearby Bend, Oregon, and the Newberry National Volcanic Monument draw visitors to the region as well. Visitors may also enjoy traveling the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, known as Oregon's Highway in the Sky. The 66-mile drive through the Cascade Mountain range 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
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment and tires before using rivers, lakes 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.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
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.
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
- 62 · 5 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are available. A nearby resort…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are available. A nearby resort on Crescent Lake…”
- Store
- Nearby
- 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, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Visitor center
- Water sports
- Night sky · 207th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:09 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
“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 · 5
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Spring closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Gold Lake CampgroundWillamette National Forest · 12 mi · walk-up
- Bunker Hill CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 13 mi · 5 sites
- Campers FlatWillamette National Forest · 20 mi · 1 site
- Diamond Lake ResortUmpqua National Forest · 21 mi
recreation.gov availability, read 16:09 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
62 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 62 mapped sitesAll 62 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 62 of the 62 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 62 of the 62 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SPRING | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 188 ft | 466 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 002 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 70 ft | 139 ft | 475 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 003 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 63 ft | 79 ft | 614 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 73 ft | 177 ft | 547 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 140 ft | 616 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 49 ft | 95 ft | 703 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 49 ft | 144 ft | 705 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 008 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 54 ft | 105 ft | 764 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 009 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 54 ft | 113 ft | 817 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 55 ft | 144 ft | 869 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 55 ft | 188 ft | 901 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 246 ft | 867 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 013 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 63 ft | 246 ft | 805 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 014 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 69 ft | 242 ft | 961 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 304 ft | 959 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 204 ft | 1,069 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 277 ft | 1,048 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 101 ft | 222 ft | 1,167 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 340 ft | 1,213 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 020 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 240 ft | 1,282 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 316 ft | 1,273 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 022 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 67 ft | 349 ft | 813 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 42 ft | 265 ft | 737 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 024 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 43 ft | 344 ft | 747 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 025 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 42 ft | 258 ft | 695 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 43 ft | 359 ft | 714 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 027 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 70 ft | 259 ft | 627 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 61 ft | 364 ft | 659 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 029 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 79 ft | 382 ft | 580 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 79 ft | 306 ft | 523 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 031 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 73 ft | 353 ft | 467 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 032 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 73 ft | 281 ft | 419 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 329 ft | 419 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 034 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 295 ft | 340 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 289 ft | 540 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 036 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 88 ft | 360 ft | 619 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 037 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 66 ft | 483 ft | 654 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 038 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 577 ft | 717 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 039 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 66 ft | 485 ft | 607 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 040 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 594 ft | 783 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 041 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 514 ft | 675 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 042 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 65 ft | 579 ft | 876 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 043 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 506 ft | 849 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 044 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 462 ft | 969 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 045 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 65 ft | 553 ft | 932 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 046 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 511 ft | 1,147 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 047 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 77 ft | 438 ft | 1,211 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 048 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 500 ft | 1,233 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 049 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 90 ft | 528 ft | 1,304 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 050 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 103 ft | 431 ft | 1,361 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 051 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 89 ft | 577 ft | 1,429 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 052 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 103 ft | 471 ft | 1,515 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 053 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 89 ft | 575 ft | 1,517 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 054 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 98 ft | 497 ft | 1,671 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 055 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 98 ft | 589 ft | 1,665 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 056 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 189 ft | 284 ft | 1,879 ft | $18.26–$40.10 |
| SPRING | 069 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 57 ft | 213 ft | 1,535 ft | $18.26 |
| SPRING | 070 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 50 ft | 209 ft | 1,483 ft | $18.26 |
| SPRING | 071 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 50 ft | 184 ft | 1,455 ft | $18.26 |
| SPRING | 072 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 65 ft | 125 ft | 1,459 ft | $18.26 |
| SPRING | 073 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 88 ft | 154 ft | 1,339 ft | $18.26 |
| SPRING | GROUP | group standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 189 ft | 377 ft | 2,068 ft | $205.48 |
25 of 62 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Contorta Point Group CampDeschutes National Forest · 0.5 mi
Windy Group CampDeschutes National Forest · 0.7 mi
Whitefish Horse CampDeschutes National Forest · 0.8 mi
Contorta Flat CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 1.0 mi
Crescent Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 3.5 mi
Simax Group CampDeschutes National Forest · 3.6 miFrom Crescent, Oregon, travel 12.2 miles west on Road 61, then 3.5 miles north on Highway 58, then 8.1 miles west on Road 60 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 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
Spring 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 →