Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Lost Lake
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 45.50081, -121.81642
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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 — Lost Lake · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 1340630 (Lost Lake Butte (S102L)), 0 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as asphalt surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 1340630 (Lost Lake Butte (S102L)), 0 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 1340630 (Lost Lake Butte (S102L)): “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 Lost Lake
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,260 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Lost LakeNIFC · 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 Lost Lake · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery0 mi
- WWater10 mi
- FFuel11 mi
- @Mail11 mi
- HHardware11 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- MMechanic13 mi
- OOutfitter13 mi
- ShShower13 mi
- RxPharmacy14 mi
- LLaundry14 mi
- DDump14 mi
- AAir-up20 mi
- +Urgent care20 mi
- PPropane22 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 0 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 — Lost Lake
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
3,260 ft
Ground slope
7.9% · gentle
State
OR
Coordinates
45.50081, -121.81642
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Lost Lake · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLake Branch · ~0.3 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townParkdale · ~10.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSmall Gas Station · ~10.7 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~22.5 mi
- Dump stationStevenson Trailer Sewage Dump Station · ~13.8 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~0.3 mi
- PharmacyWind River Pharmacy · ~13.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicNew Directions Wellness Care · ~20.4 mi
- HardwareMcIsaac's Hardware Store · ~10.8 mi
EV charging — from Lost Lake · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger12.0 mi straight-line N — Thunder Island Brewing - Charli Charging, Cascade Locks, OR (at a brewery / winery) · Non-Networked · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-10-13 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach16 within 25 mi · 129 within 50 · 264 within 100 · 543 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO12.3 mi — WCEH Cascade Locks, Cascade Locks
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.3 mi — WCEH Cascade Locks · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — The Grateful Vineyard, Mt. Hood, 9.8 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 3pm-7pm M-Th, 12pm-7pm F-Sun · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.45 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 428668 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Lost Lake · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletLost Lake · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWahtum Lake · ~5.4 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWahtum Lake · ~5.4 mi N · USFS
- RestroomMcgee Creek · ~5.9 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Lost Lake · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lake Branch as a perennial stream, ~0.3 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 7.9% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (3 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.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on 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 Lost Lake elsewhere
Other camps near Lost Lake
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Indian Springs Campground (not maintained)~3.9 mi
- Wahtum Lake Campground~5.4 mi
- Ottertail Lake~6.1 mi
- Kinnikinnick~8.1 mi · fee
The unit that manages Lost Lake
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Lost Lake are set by Mt. Hood National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Lost Lake
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 2026-08-31: $45 per night for a single site, and this one is not a plain Forest Service campground: Lost Lake is run as a resort concession and the Mt. Hood NF page prints the resort's whole price list. Single site $45; F Loop tent-only $50; self-contained vehicles, all sizes, $50; H Loop $45 ($50 with an RV); group sites $78 for 9 people, $93 for 12; extra vehicle $20; extra RV $32. Day use is quoted twice on the same page and contradicts itself -- $16 per vehicle day park permit ($17 with the lower kiosk open) in the fee list, $15 per vehicle per day in the narrative. That narrative also warns that camping fees vary by amenity and sends you to Lost Lake Resort's own site, so treat $45 as the floor for a standard site. A recreation.gov listing (251434) for LOST LAKE RESORT AND CAMPGROUND exists but publishes coordinates 0.87 mi from our pin, past our 0.5 mi check, so its rates are not quoted here. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/mthood/recreation/lost-lake-resort-campground (page last updated July 21, 2026).
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 Lost Lake
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 — Lost Lake
Camping near a reservoir →Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →