Trapper Creek Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $27–$54Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 28All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Trapper Creek Campground is located in the Crescent Ranger District of Deschutes National Forest. Heavily forested and situated on a small stream that feeds into Odell Lake, this campground is a favorite in the area. Sparkling lakes, tranquil streams and nearby scenic peaks provide visitors with the perfect backdrop for fishing, boating, hiking and biking throughout the area. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, swimming and fishing are popular activities enjoyed by visitors during spring, summer and fall. Anglers have the opportunity to fish in clear, cold lakes and streams for abundant salmon and trout. Cross-country skiing and snowshoeing are popular during the winter. For anglers, Odell Lake is considered one of the blue giants of the Deschutes National Forest. This large lake has an average depth is 132 feet, which makes it ideal habitat for lake trout and bull trout. Rainbow trout, kokanee salmon and whitefish are also found in the lake. Boats are the most effective way to fish this lake but visitors should be aware of afternoon winds, as the lake can get dangerously rough. A boat ramp is provided at the campground.
Facilities
Trapper Creek Campground offer sites that accommodate both tent and RV camping. The sites are secluded, and many are tucked away in thick forested areas. Sites are equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Drinking water are also available.
Natural Features
Nearby Odell Lake offers views across the water to Diamond Peak, the most prominent peak in nearby Diamond Peak Wilderness. At an elevation of 8,744 feet, this shield volcano formed as the entire Cascades mountain range was undergoing volcanic activity and uplift. Mixed stands of pine and fir trees tower over a variety of springtime flowers. Huckleberry is common in the underbrush of the campground. Wildlife found in the area include deer, elk, pine martens, ravens, native fish and an occasional black bear.
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 will also enjoy traveling the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, known as Oregon's Highway in the Sky, which climbs into the clouds on a 66-mile drive through the Cascade Mountain range, weaving through snow-capped peaks and alpine lakes. A nearby resort on Odell Lake offers lodging and a general store with camping supplies, coffee, snacks and fishing licenses.
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
Parking spurs may not be perfectly level
Hookups are not available
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.
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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
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
- 28
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…tables and campfire rings with grills. Drinking water are also available. Natural Features Nearby Odell…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- 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, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 262nd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:17 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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $27–$54 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 16:17 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
28 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 28 mapped sitesAll 28 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. 28 of the 28 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Trapper Creek Campground | 001 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 84 ft | 95 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 002 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 84 ft | 104 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 003 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 88 ft | 122 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 004 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 97 ft | 122 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 98 ft | 203 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 111 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 007 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 71 ft | 181 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 008 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 40 ft | 105 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 010 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 40 ft | 118 ft | $27–$54 |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 012 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 85 ft | 114 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 013 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 56 ft | 71 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 56 ft | 54 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 015 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 74 ft | 149 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 115 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 017 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 58 ft | 142 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 60 ft | 115 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 019 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 96 ft | 181 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 021 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 103 ft | 283 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 022 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 122 ft | 269 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 101 ft | 381 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 024 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 84 ft | 297 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 026 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 101 ft | 292 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 027 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 102 ft | 293 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 028 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 104 ft | 397 ftOdell Lake | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 029 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 82 ft | 329 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 030 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 82 ft | 408 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 031 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 84 ft | 349 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Trapper Creek Campground | 032 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 111 ft | 240 ft | $27–$54 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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Sunset Cove CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 4.3 mi
Crescent Lake YurtsDeschutes National Forest · 6.5 mi
Crescent Lake CampgroundDeschutes National Forest · 6.6 miFrom I-5 take exit 188A, heading west on Highway 58 for 62.4 miles, then continue 1.9 miles south on Road 5810 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
Trapper Creek Campground 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 →