Thompson Reservoir
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $6From, per site
- Sites
- 2019 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located 40 minutes south of Silver Lake, Oregon, Thompson Reservoir Campground is a developed campground ideally situated on the three-square-mile reservoir with pretty vistas of nearby Hager Mountain. There are 19 campsites with picnic tables, fire rings. Other amenities include hand-pumped water, and three vault toilets. There is also one large group site. Tall ponderosa pines and a few aspen trees lord over the high mountain setting of Thompson Reservoir. Recreation opportunities include fishing, hiking, and exploring. The reservoir is stocked once a year with rainbow trout and there is a boat launch. This campground typically opens mid-May and closes mid-October. Heavy snowfall prevents this campground from being used in the winter and early spring. Thompson Reservoir campground is located across the reservoir from the East Bay Campground . Keep reading
Recreation
Recreation opportunities in the area include picnicking, flatwater water activities, fishing, hiking, bird watching, nature viewing. The National Recreation Trail #160 is within close proximity to the Campground.
Facilities
3 Vault Toilets, Potable Water (seasonally available by hand pump), and boat ramp Natural Features Thompson Reservoir, Silver Creek, Hager Mountain, Nearby Attractions National Recreation Trail #160, Hager Mountain Lookout, Sycan Marsh, Winter Rim
What the agency tells you
Camping stay is only allowed for 14 days maximum. Trash service provided during peak season. Practice leave-no-trace policy. Potable water is only available during the fee-season. Water system is turned off and drained during the winter months. Signage will be posted at designated kiosks regarding water quality, testing, and safety.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…include hand-pumped water, and three vault toilets. There is also one large group site. Tall ponderosa…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Campground. Facilities 3 Vault Toilets, Potable Water (seasonally available by hand pump), and boat ramp…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Coast
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Paddling
- Sailing
- Water access
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 19 of the 20 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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What you actually pay
“Overnight Use: Single Site: $6 per night Additional Vehicle Fee: $2 per vehicle per night $6/Night for single unit, $2/Night for extra vehicle” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $6 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.
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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites
All 20 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. 20 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 01 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 02 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 03 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 04 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 05 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 06 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 07 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 08 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 09 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 11 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 12 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 13 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 14 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 15 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 16 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 17 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 18 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| A | 19 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
| Extra Vehicle Fee | Extra Vehicle Fee | type not stated | $2 |