Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Crescent Lake Yurts
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 43.50179, -121.97576
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Crescent Lake Yurts · Deschutes National Forest · OR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 6000180 (Crescent C.G), 190 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as bituminous surface treatment surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 6000180 (Crescent C.G), 190 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 6000180 (Crescent C.G): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Crescent Lake Yurts
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,877 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Crescent Lake YurtsNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Crescent Lake Yurts · Deschutes National Forest · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- OOutfitter0 mi
- @Mail1 mi
- FFuel2 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- WWater9 mi
- MMechanic14 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- ShShower25 mi
- HHardware26 mi
- +Urgent care26 mi
- RxPharmacy27 mi
- DDump42 mi
- PPropane49 mi
- AAir-up49 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Crescent Lake Yurts
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
4,877 ft
Ground slope
4.8% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~0.7 mi · main line
State
OR
Coordinates
43.50179, -121.97576
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Crescent Lake Yurts · Deschutes National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCrescent Lake · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townCrescent Lake · ~2.1 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.7 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~9.4 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~2.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesOdell Sportsman Center · ~2.4 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~26.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicLa Pine Community Health Center · ~26.5 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~26.4 mi
EV charging — from Crescent Lake Yurts · Deschutes National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.2 mi straight-line E — Crescent, OR (at a public site) · RIVIAN_ADVENTURE · CCS · 6 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 8 within 50 · 116 within 100 · 289 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)30.1 mi — Chemult, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Chemult
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO28.9 mi — 52530 US-97, La Pine
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)14.3 mi — The Woodsman Country Lodge, Crescent, OR (at a hotel) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-12 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 391384 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Crescent Lake Yurts · Deschutes National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletCrescent Lake · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCrescent Lake Boat Launch · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletFawn Lake Trailhead · ~0.2 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCrescent Lake Guard Station · ~0.3 mi E · USFS
Coming out here — Crescent Lake Yurts · Deschutes National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Crescent Lake as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 4.8% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Rail line mapped ~0.7 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records Amtrak service on it. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Crescent Lake Yurts elsewhere
Other camps near Crescent Lake Yurts
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Simax Group Site~0.8 mi · fee
- Contorta Flat~3.1 mi · fee
- Contorta Point~3.2 mi · fee
- Whitefish Horse Camp~3.6 mi · fee
The unit that manages Crescent Lake Yurts
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Crescent Lake Yurts are set by Deschutes National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Crescent Lake Yurts
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-23: NOT a tent site -- these are rental yurts at $64 per night, each intended for no more than 6 people. The Deschutes NF page and recreation.gov listing 10060244 (0.116 mi from our pin) agree at $64 for the 2026 peak season, May 22 - Oct 17. The forest notes that the usual 50% Senior and Access pass discount does not apply to cabins and lookouts or to extra-vehicle and day-use fees. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/deschutes/recreation/crescent-lake-yurts.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Crescent Lake Yurts
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Crescent Lake Yurts
Camping near a reservoir →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →