Princess Creek Campground

Princess Creek CG at Odell Lake Oregon is my most favorite place in existence. The fragrance of the sun warming the fir needles, the trees gently swaying to the breeze off the lake and the water lapping on the rocks is amazing. The sites are spacious. A truly religious experience. My yearly visit is something I will always want to do.

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This location is so very BEAUTIFUL on one of Oregons wonderful and NATURAL lakes, not a man made reservoir.
So I feel saddened to give such a low rating.
I am usually not one to complain BUT for $16 a night one would at least expect to get water. The road thru campground needs some serious maintenance as it has long been neglected. Don’t know where the funds we paid are going but not toward this campground!!
Campsite was not cleaned from previous campers.
There was also a LOT of trees blown down and made the area look very cluttered and messy.
There was no host on-site.
On a positive note the vault toilet was very clean.

So if we are expected to shell out $40 for two nights (this includes $8 for having to make an online reservation, another way to charge more for recreating, again I don’t know where that money is going!!) I would expect more. So without the basic amenities, like water, PERHAPS the price should be less per night as the quality was not stellar. I also wasn’t expecting to be Boondocking and having to pay for it. Hope this gets read by those higher up the chain of command and they think more about providing what we pay for rather than their paychecks.

Very nice campground. The bathrooms were extremely clean. The lakeside sites have very little highway noise. It can be quite windy in the afternoons., so do your paddling in the morning. I had very good cell service ( AT&T). Will definitely be back.

We really enjoyed our stay at the campground. The camp hosts were beyond amazing and so friendly.

We do wish that the USFS would be able to issue tickets to campers who leave their campsites blazing. We had two neighboring campsites that literally left with flames going. I believe the USFS should be able to issue tickets and suspended campers from being able to reserve sites if they cannot be fire wise.

I have been at this campground a number of times over the past 30 years (but it is not my first choice at Odell Lake) and except for the boat ramp and the toilets the rest of it has continually deteriorated. I only use this camp site in the early summer when the other campgrounds are still closed and more recently when I can't get a reserved site at the other campgrounds on the lake.

The road is horrible with lots of pot holes and camp sites were not well maintained and full of fir tree seed pods that could have been raked up. It was late July not June 1st when it had just opened. Downed trees are left to break down naturally which is nice in the wilderness but not in a campground where they can become a fire hazard. Maybe the tree cutters could but them into fire wood lengths and let campers use them for fire wood.

The reservation system is a mess to deal with and while I was there a couple of prime camp sites designated as first come (FF) were empty. I mean, who would go there and take a chance on getting one of those good sites on a first come basis? As I understand the rules people in reserved sites can not move to a FF site; but of course there is no camp host or other personnel available to ask about that. This particular campground in the condition it is in does not need any reservation schedule when people can reserve sites at the other two camp grounds on Odell Lake. As far as I'm concerned there should be no camping fees charged at this campground until it is improved and potable water is brought back.

Nice area. Great kayaking.

Campground is in need of maintenance and some overhauling. Road through campground is deteriorated. Our particular site was very difficult to get RV level due to RV site being poorly constructed and not maintained. The extra boat trailer parking is completely built backwards……. If you follow the arrows directing the one-way traffic through the boat parking area, the parking lanes are painted at tye wrong angle to back in and drop a trailer. One positive note, the fee collection box was broke, so they were not collecting fees.
This area of the lake get a strong afternoon wind almost every day, so beaching a boat is extremely difficult without taking a beating on the boat due to the rocky shallow shore line. The sunsets are beautiful though.

Yes you can hear highway noise through the night and trains from across the lake and the wind on the lake can be significant but a waterside campsite is divine! The night sky was amazing, listening to the water gently lap the shore as night set in. Yellowjackets can be pesty in August. The wind helped that.

Good site for tent camping which we were doing. Only thing sad is that it is hard to get sites for more than one night in the summer months. Takes a lot of planning.