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Deschutes/South Twin Lake Campground


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CaliDee

August 08, 2025

Nice campground (tons of chipmunks) with super cute cabins, store with supplies, and restaurant overlooking the lake. Also, I saw some complaints about the bathrooms before I left went but the ones by us were lovely. They were kept very clean and had fully flushable toilets with sinks to wash hands.

Christian Oregon

May 25, 2025

Reservations using recreation.Gov. clean restrooms and flush toilets. This is a Forest Service campground with picnic tables and fire rings.

Glyeb Ewing

May 11, 2025

We came to camp and fish on the lake, its first come first serve camping. When we parked and walked to the water to float, a staff member pulled up to my wife and said we can't park here and that we have to use the day use parking or we are getting fined. The camp capacity was maybe at 20 percent occupancy with no reservation requirements. Not sure if this was the owner, a staff member, but it seems to be pretty on par with the other experiences I have read about with the staff here. Relax, don't take life so seriously.

Tiffany Olson

September 16, 2024

I will start out by saying my family used to camp here all the time when i was younger. With the trying times over the years it had been a while since wed been back. This last weekend we decided to take a day trip and visit a couple places in the bend/sisters area. I was very excited to remember some of the good times we used to have and unfortunatly i think thats where they will be stay...this place is not anywhere close to being the same as it used too. i did hear that it did get bought out a couple years ago but i guess id hoped they were still going to keep the same values of this place that keeps people coming back. This was such a disappointment because their was absolutely no customer service. no one seemed to care about talking to customers. They all seemed to only care about their own conversations they were having on their phone or with coworkers. We actually had to stand their awkwardly for awhile to wait for them to finish their discussion before they disgustingly turned to us and looked at us like what do you want...very uncomfortable! We also were interested in their "hand scooped ice cream" which was pretty much a small booth that originally probably had like 5 or so flavors to pick from but on this specific day EVERYTHING was sold out EXCEPT vanilla which i guarentee was probably freezer burnt....but no sprinkle no whipped cream no topping....ok so why are you open?!?! Plus they were very rude about the fact that they were only open that one day and as we approching them they said if we wanted to order something we better do it right then otherwise they were going to close....umm their was like no one their. Plus it was like 2:00 in the afternoon.... Overall this place has just become a huge disappoint especially because we know this place used to be very family oriented and fun. The people that used to own this place used to be so friendly and caring. So sad to see a tradition die 😢 And i guarentee a lot of other people are doing the same. No need to waste your hard earned money here!!! South Twin Do Better!!!

Patrick H

September 03, 2024

I would not trust these people - they do not offer you the ability to cancel a reservation even if you booked it months in advance. They took our deposit and were not willing to give it back. Be weary of this place.

Dave Oakes

April 27, 2021

We love the area. If you drive past the campground on to the lake bed you can camp on the water

Timothy Sautter

October 24, 2020

We didn't camp here, just stopped by after going to Twin Lake for the day, so can't attest to how good or bad the camping is. I will say that it's quite beautiful, at least when the reservoir is low which it was when we were there (September 5th). Since the reservoir was low there were all sorts of gravel roads exposed around the perimeter and some that went down to the river. I saw some folks camped pretty close to the river on a nice meander so they had water on 3 sides. Can't say I'd want to camp there with the abundance of other great places nearby but there must be some reason because there was a ton of people there. I definitely recommend popping over there if you visit Twin Lakes for the day.

Gary Bertelson

July 10, 2019

Been coming with my family for 60 summers. Daily routine is like this. Fish, breakfast, family time, float/swim, snack, hike,dinner, family time and campfire, thank God for his amazing blessings, bed. Repeat for a month . Love it😎

John Crafard

August 28, 2018

Sites are deap for long trailers. Some a little difficult to back into. Restrooms are clean but could use a good scrubbing on the porcelain. Two lakes and a reservoir to fish in. Small market with a nice little restaurant with inside or outside dining. Have stayed there twice in the last two months. Already reserved a couple of spots for next year.

Christopher Pease

July 16, 2018

You get beautiful views of the mountains beautiful scenery of the trees and Lake very quiet campsites are pretty far apart plenty of access to the lake campfires are allowed fishing lots of good fish there is a large close by for food water drinks there's rentals for Kayaks at a boats and rafts there's sandy beaches in some areas and all the people are very friendly there. Plus there's wildlife lots of birds quite a few deer bombs squirrels that's why I give South Twin Lake a five-star thank you