I'll soon be near Sisters Or. with some buddies for a hub and spoke bicycle tour. We'll be riding many days on the paved roads in the area and also Century Drive.I'm fairly familiar with the area, but have not done any dispersed camping nearby with my TT. I've been considering Black Pine Campground off Three Creeks Road. It comes up on some web searches, but some sites suggest it may be closed. There's lots of gravel roads between hwy 20 and hwy 242, but it'd be nice to narrow down my choices a little.I also remember a campground across from Sunriver on the opposite side of the Descutes. Does anyone know if that area is still open for camping?I'm open to suggestions. Feel free to pm me with any ideas (I promise I don't plan to broadcast any prime spots over the net).Thanks,Jeff

Sisters city park is a good choice, right on the edge of town.

Jeff,Just West of Sisters, on 242, is a campground. There used to be dispersed camping on the East side of that campground. It was a nice place, but not sure if it is still allowed.Further afield, you can drive up toward Three Creeks Lake and find lots of spur roads that you could camp off (I cut firewood up there so have driven most of them). Also, upper and lower Three Creeks snow parks would work. You may want to swing by the Sisters USFS office and discuss it with them (and get a motor vehicle map).If you also plan to ride up Century Drive, then Sister (esp. up Three Creeks way) would be a long way to commute. There are lots of campgrounds off Century Drive and plenty of spur roads too....heck, just stay at Swampy, V. Misner, Wanoga, Kapta Butte, or Edison snow parks.Have fun.

SteveAE wrote:Jeff,Just West of Sisters, on 242, is a campground. There used to be dispersed camping on the East side of that campground. It was a nice place, but not sure if it is still allowed.Further afield, you can drive up toward Three Creeks Lake and find lots of spur roads that you could camp off (I cut firewood up there so have driven most of them). Also, upper and lower Three Creeks snow parks would work. You may want to swing by the Sisters USFS office and discuss it with them (and get a motor vehicle map).If you also plan to ride up Century Drive, then Sister (esp. up Three Creeks way) would be a long way to commute. There are lots of campgrounds off Century Drive and plenty of spur roads too....heck, just stay at Swampy, V. Misner, Wanoga, Kapta Butte, or Edison snow parks.Have fun.Thanks Steve,I was thinking about some place off Three Creeks Road. The snow parks are a good idea also.

If you are looking for "Dispersed camping near Sisters OR", then the road west of town you mentioned, FS 1012 between 242 and 20, is a good choice. As you head west of Sisters on 242, you'll find the turn about 5 miles out, just before the Cold Springs campground. About a mile down the road a left turn on FS 1018 will get you immediately into the best, most wide-open camping. Next best is on the right-hand side of FS 1012 just a couple hundred yards down. If you inquire at the NFS ranger station in Sisters, youll find that they highly recommend this area for dispersed camping, as do I. FWIW, Cold Springs CG is nice enough also, costs a small fee but doesn't really offer any advantage over the dispersed camping hearby.Sisters City CG, as mentioned, is a nice little place about a block from what counts as downtown Sisters. It's very friendly, no longer cheap, but tough to go wrong there. Even if you don't camp there they offer free potable water to all campers, just pull up to the siding in fromt of the CG and you'll find a water faucet.Sisters is overrun by a large flock of Urban Deer, so don't be surprised if they muscle you out of the way as they amble down the streets, going about their own business.As for the Sunriver area, I know there is a nice Thousand Trails CG immediately sounth of Sunriver. They are not cheap unless you are a TT member, but they are conveniently located at the south end of South Century Drive, near the highway. In the same area there are several Sno-Parks on South Century. If you can get the ODOT to give you a simple answer to a simple question (I couldn't), then maybe you could dispersed camp at one of those.Good luck!

I see Steve just posted much of the same info.

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mtnbbud
Explorer II
Jun 03, 2015
SteveAE wrote:
Jeff,

Just West of Sisters, on 242, is a campground. There used to be dispersed camping on the East side of that campground. It was a nice place, but not sure if it is still allowed.

Further afield, you can drive up toward Three Creeks Lake and find lots of spur roads that you could camp off (I cut firewood up there so have driven most of them). Also, upper and lower Three Creeks snow parks would work. You may want to swing by the Sisters USFS office and discuss it with them (and get a motor vehicle map).

If you also plan to ride up Century Drive, then Sister (esp. up Three Creeks way) would be a long way to commute. There are lots of campgrounds off Century Drive and plenty of spur roads too....heck, just stay at Swampy, V. Misner, Wanoga, Kapta Butte, or Edison snow parks.

Have fun.

Thanks Steve,

I was thinking about some place off Three Creeks Road. The snow parks are a good idea also.
SteveAE
Explorer
Jun 03, 2015
Jeff,

Just West of Sisters, on 242, is a campground. There used to be dispersed camping on the East side of that campground. It was a nice place, but not sure if it is still allowed.

Further afield, you can drive up toward Three Creeks Lake and find lots of spur roads that you could camp off (I cut firewood up there so have driven most of them). Also, upper and lower Three Creeks snow parks would work. You may want to swing by the Sisters USFS office and discuss it with them (and get a motor vehicle map).

If you also plan to ride up Century Drive, then Sister (esp. up Three Creeks way) would be a long way to commute. There are lots of campgrounds off Century Drive and plenty of spur roads too....heck, just stay at Swampy, V. Misner, Wanoga, Kapta Butte, or Edison snow parks.

Have fun.
donn0128
Explorer II
Jun 03, 2015
Sisters city park is a good choice, right on the edge of town.

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