The best in all of washington county too!

Horning's Hideout is a hard place to match as a location to host your next company or family picnic, reunion, party, or gathering. There are picnic areas for both the small or large groups, so we can accommodate sizes from small family groups up to a couple thousand people for your company picnic!


No equipment necessary

Our large, reservable picnic areas feature an abundance of tables, a covered pavilion outfitted with barbeque pits, horseshoe pits and lawns for volleyball and other field games. For reserved areas, gaming equipment is provided, so all you need to bring is you and your friends! And if you need a caterer, we have very good ones we can recommend. The lake is well stocked with trout for fishing fun for the kids, plus paddle boat fun (equipped with super soakers) for everyone. So come on out, play games, have a fishing or volleyball contest, or just soak up the scenic beauty and let us give you a perfect picnic day! Hours for family picnics are from 8 AM till 8 PM everyday (summertime hours)and for a company picnic hours are from 11 AM till 8 PM! For prices or availability call or email.


We have portland's best campgrounds!

Camping is by reservation only so please call or email! We are also a camp ground, not an RV park, so there is no long term camping over 4 days.

Camping is available in this wonderful setting, with either tent or RV sites. Tent camping is either in the woods or in more open areas, group camping or individual, while RV sites have power and water hook-ups, plus we have a septic dump on site. Individual Tent camping is $25 a night up to 3 people, RV camping is $30 up to 3 people. For tent camping over 3 people/group camping is $7 per person, for RVs if you have over 3 people it's $7 per person extra on top the $30. In the summer camping is by reservation so you must call or email.

Horning's Hideout

We stumbled on this random but fun campground nearly on accident while looking for places to camp near Portland. Just outside of town (half an hour) there's a small winding road that brings you to this green, well maintained and fun site. There's peacocks wandering the grounds, including at least two albino ones. Parking right at front, beautiful streams and a great pond for fishing. The kiddos are pretty much guaranteed to catch a fish, which is why we came there, and they offer plenty of help including a "trout shack." They charge for fish by the pound (or hourly if catch and release). There's also lovely covered tables around the pond for lunches and a whole amphitheater apparently for things like Fiddle Fest and Fairy Land festivals. The only two weird things (and the reason for four stars instead of five) is that there's very much a feeling of the whole place being run by a family and/or it being a private campground. There's two or three private houses right in the middle of everything with "keep out/private" signs, which makes it feel a bit like you're trespassing on someone's land, but our interactions with the owner were nice enough that that wasn't much of an issue. They also charge for just about everything, including $4 for parking if you're only staying for a day, and an extra $7 per person beyond the first 3 for camping (so a family of four acutally pays $32 instead of $25 for a site). Worth trying at least once though for the beautiful woods and fields, proximity to Portland, and especially the fishing.

Especially Great for Day Trips and Fishing for Kids

This is a beautiful campground, and a great spot to festival. String Summit is an incredible experience to be had, owners are super low key and it's always a lot of fun. Plus they have 3 disc golf courses, that are very unique, both challenging and a putter course with lots of obstacles and elevation changes. Highly recommend - oh and peacocks!

Great Music Festivals + Disc Golf

Hornings Hideaway is an awesome place, from the lake, disc golf courses, hiking trails, peacocks, and the best host ever… Bob is always so kind and helpful…