Driftwood Campground - Deschutes

Don't be deterred by other's negative reviews. Three Creeks Lake is best in Late July to the first week of September, don't bother coming up any sooner or you will end up fighting cold weather and loads of bugs. It's a gem I've been coming to for 30 years.

Sites 9-18 are set on the hill side, they all have flat spots for tents but most won't accommodate very large tents. Our group stayed at sites 14 & 15 we had two 8 person tents that we were able to find flat stops to use, anything bigger wouldn't have worked.

While camping this late in the season we had very little Mosquito activity, we came with bug spray just in case and a few candles, nobody reported anything more than a big bite or two. Occasionally in the afternoon's we would have a swarm of mayfly's come along the shore, not a big deal since they don't harm anything or anyone. We found several tadpoles and even more frogs.

There is a camp host that makes the rounds everyday to check people in and make sure the toilets are services, they don't have a designated spot you just have to find them. He told us that if a site goes 48 hours without the reservation showing up he can resell the spot to someone new.

The little store across the lake has lots of supplies for anything you may have forgotten, however they are closed Tuesday & Wednesday.

Site #17 = Terrible overall. Camp site is not level, including the tent area. You park on the road and walk about 50 feet down a loose gravel / dirt trail to the actual site. By the time we got all our gear down to the site, much of it was covered in a strange little flying bugs that I've never seen before. We quickly setup the tent and got supplies inside to keep bugs away. Couldn't keep the bugs out of our spaghetti that evening. Then we realized the lake is waaaay down the embankment, so we didn't evened attempt to carry the kayaks down there. We ended up packing up the next morning and skipping the next day that we had reserved and paid for. I've never up and left a camp site before in my life, but this just wasn't what we were expecting. There appeared to be other sites that were much better laid out, on much more level ground, and closer to the lake.

We were at site 7. It was very sloped and did not have adequate flat areas for tents. We were there in early July and the mosquitoes, flies and bees were pretty bad. This area may be better late in the season, but I will probably not return to this camp ground.

Even though we had reserved our campsite weeks in advance, there was someone set up in our campsite when we arrived. We searched for a camp host for over an hour before determining that there was no host. After talking to the individual in our site, we learned that he did not find a reserved sign on the campsite post and had already paid for the site...that we also had already paid for. It was incredibly frustrating when we had a reservation that we paid for in advance and the site was not available.

We love the Driftwood campground. On this occasion, there was no toilet paper in the restroom for over one day. We had very noisy neighbors who played music until 11:30 and continued loudly talking until after 2:00 am. We actually left a day early.

Be aware that sites 9-11 are parallel parking up the hill from the actual campsite. Several bigger rvs/trailers were parked along with our truck camper, making it a very awkward fit. Feels like there is enough parking for 2, not 3 sites. Or these should be tent only sites. The site itself was nice but you have to go up and down a steep hill to get to your vehicle.

Pretty nice up here beautiful views and many fish in the lake. Didn’t have the boat rentals open currently since it isn’t hot enough and the bugs were terrible constantly biting and swarming even bug spray didn’t work. Overall a ok experience it was a little confusing to know where to go without a camp host.

Beautiful spot! Huge campsites with a big front porch to the lake shore! Really nice camp neighbors, and lots of stars at which to gaze, can't ask for a lot more than that!

Comparatively spacious sites. Pretty setting. It would be nice if I didn’t have to listen to drones though.

Site #4 was excellent for tents and large beach front. Fishing, biking, hiking options. Great hikes to Little Three Creeks Lake and Tam McArthur.