Trillium
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 17 of the next 18 nights; a database flag says not open read 16:08 UTC
- A night
- $30–$60Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6350 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Trillium Lake Campground is a beautiful and popular campground not far from the quaint town of Government Camp. It provides spectacular views of majestic Mt. Hood, Oregon's highest point. The campground is well-known for its scenery and abundant recreational opportunities, as well as being a great, family-friendly place to camp. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, swimming and fishing are popular on 63-acre Trillium Lake. A small boat ramp is available within the campground and a larger ramp is available in the nearby day-use area. An accessible fishing pier is also available. Anglers cast for a variety of trout. The 2-mile Trillium Shoreline Trail circles the lake, and parts of it are accessible. Visitors also enjoy hiking and biking on other trails in the vicinity. Tours of the area's historical sites are also popular.
Facilities
The campground offers dozens of single and double sites for tent and RV camping. Some first-come, first-served sites are available, as well as some fully accessible sites. Parking surfaces are mostly paved, but some are gravel. Each site is equipped with a table and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. An accessible picnic shelter is adjacent and can accommodate up to 30 people. Parking is available. An accessible amphitheater within the campground can be reserved for day use and can accommodate up to 30 people. Educational programs are held on weekends throughout the summer.
Natural Features
The campground is located about 40 miles southeast of Portland, in the Mt. Hood National Forest. It sits alongside Trillium Lake at an elevation of 3,600 feet, and is nestled in a shady, mixed conifer forest that provides privacy between campsites.
Nearby Attractions
Timberline Lodge, a National Historic Landmark on Mt. Hood, is located within 10 miles of the campground. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (503) 622-3191.
What the agency tells you
Utility hookups are not available
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground
In accordance with standard industry practices, Mount Hood Recreation will be assessing an additional vehicle fee on the second vehicle in each single family campsite, and on the third and fourth vehicle in any double family campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site. In the case of motorcycles, the first two are considered as one vehicle for determining additional vehicle fees. The third and fourth motorcycle would also be considered as one vehicle. No additional vehicle fees are collected for bicycles
Everything else this campground posts · 5
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.
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.
Check out the forest's campground description for specific information to Fish Your National Forest
Click here for more information on the Mt. Hood National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 63 · 14 tent-only, 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 95 ft
- Paved pads
- 56 of 63
- Accessible sites
- 7
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. An accessible…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. An accessible picnic shelter is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Ranger programs
- Swimming
- Night sky · 689th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
Full this Saturdayread 16:08 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
1 campground has sites open within 30 miles, read 16:31 UTC. See them
OpenBookedClosed
Every one of the 20 sites on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 2 are free on Wed, Oct 21. read 16:08 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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 · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$60 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 · 5
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 1
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:31 UTC
- Wildwood Recreation SiteNw Oregon Cascades Field Office · 14 mi · 9 of 9 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:08 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
65 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 47 mapped sitesAll 65 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 57 of the 65 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. 48 of the 65 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.
| AREA TRILLIUM | 001 | type not stated | 363 ft | 222 ft | ||||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 98 ft | 86 ft | 124 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 148 ft | 155 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 85 ft | 145 ft | 246 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 007 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 81 ft | 227 ft | 230 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 81 ft | 240 ft | 152 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 009 | type not stated | 26 ft | 142 ft | 137 ft | |||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 010 | type not stated | 20 ft | 194 ft | 22 ft | |||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 174 ft | 141 ft | 61 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 012 | type not stated | 98 ft | 84 ft | ||||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 013 | type not stated | 24 ft | 77 ft | 157 ft | |||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 98 ft | 141 ft | 258 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 70 ft | 162 ft | 147 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 016 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 70 ft | 212 ft | 211 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 99 ft | 252 ft | 250 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 117 ft | 136 ft | 344 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 019 | tent only nonelectric | 55 ft | 294 ft | 168 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 020 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 100 ft | 229 ft | 227 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 55 ft | 347 ft | 126 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 100 ft | 329 ft | 138 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 111 ft | 427 ft | 26 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 550 ft | 159 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 427 ft | 113 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 026 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 104 ft | 537 ft | 239 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 610 ft | 212 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 028 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 101 ft | 674 ft | 119 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 029 | type not stated | 45 ft | yes | 635 ft | 159 ft | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 140 ft | 413 ft | 231 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 031 | type not stated | 470 ft | 303 ft | ||||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 032 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 106 ft | 387 ft | 228 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ft | 364 ft | 275 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 034 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 92 ft | 437 ft | 365 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 035 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | yes | 96 ft | 350 ft | 277 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 036 | tent only nonelectric | 128 ft | 305 ft | 337 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 037 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 98 ft | 111 ft | 144 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 038 | type not stated | 203 ft | 26 ft | ||||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 039 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 155 ft | 94 ft | 90 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 040 | tent only nonelectric | 112 ft | 180 ft | 161 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 041 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 92 ft | 85 ft | 132 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 042 | tent only nonelectric | 112 ft | 196 ft | 147 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 043 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 84 ft | 69 ft | 57 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 044 | tent only nonelectric | 84 ft | 144 ft | 33 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 045 | tent only nonelectric | 119 ft | 48 ft | 300 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 046 | tent only nonelectric | 113 ft | 158 ft | 232 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 047 | tent only nonelectric | 96 ft | 267 ft | 185 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 048 | type not stated | yes | |||||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 048A | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | yes | 76 ft | 362 ft | 91 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 049 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 76 ft | 341 ft | 90 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 050 | tent only nonelectric | 127 ft | 510 ft | 94 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 051 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 99 ft | 387 ft | 91 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 052 | tent only nonelectric | 114 ft | 457 ft | 173 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 053 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 132 ft | 615 ft | 297 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 054 | tent only nonelectric | 101 ft | 544 ft | 330 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 055 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 100 ft | 649 ft | 262 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | 056 | tent only nonelectric | 100 ft | 580 ft | 233 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA TRILLIUM | 057 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 144 ft | 707 ft | 109 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA TRILLIUM | Day Use Amphitheater | day use | 48 ft | 272 ft | $100 | |||
| AREA TRILLIUM | PS1-Day Use | day use | under 10 ft | 289 ft | $100 | |||
| Dam Area | 058 | type not stated | ||||||
| Dam Area | 059 | type not stated | ||||||
| Dam Area | 060 | type not stated | ||||||
| Dam Area | 061 | yurt | yes | $120 | ||||
| Dam Area | 062 | type not stated | ||||||
| Dam Area | 063 | type not stated | ||||||
| Dam Area | 064 | type not stated |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 65 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Still CreekMt. Hood National Forest · 2.1 mi
Alpine CampgroundMt. Hood National Forest · 3.7 mi
Frog LakeMt. Hood National Forest · 3.8 mi
Barlow Creek CampgroundMount Hood National Recreation Area · 5.7 mi
Clear Lake (OR)Mt. Hood National Forest · 6.6 mi
Camp CreekMt. Hood National Forest · 6.9 miFrom Portland, travel southeast on Highway 26 for about 40 miles. Turn right a mile east of Government Camp. Continue 2 miles to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Government Camp, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 26°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 · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Trillium is in Oregon’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Maxine Dexter (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyMaxine DexterU.S. Representative · Oregon’s 3rd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJeff MerkleyU.S. Senator · Oregon
- Your senator, on the same appropriationRon WydenU.S. Senator · Oregon
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Trillium, Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon
Dear Maxine Dexter, I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 3rd district. I tried to camp at Trillium, Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 50 of the 63 campsites the agency files at Trillium, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 20 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Trillium keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Trillium. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Trillium (Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Trillium, Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon
Dear Jeff Merkley, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Trillium, Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 50 of the 63 campsites the agency files at Trillium, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 20 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Trillium keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Trillium. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Trillium (Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Trillium, Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon
Dear Ron Wyden, I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at Trillium, Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 50 of the 63 campsites the agency files at Trillium, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 20 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Trillium keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Trillium. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Trillium (Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com