Haystack Campground (east Shore)

This campground is close to Smith Rock and Bend.  Good exposure for wind for wind or kitesurfing. The campground is mediocre at best with lots of mosquitoes at least in June.  Seems to have a fair amount of open campsites if you need to stay a night but would not recommend as a destination.

Our experience here was a quiet one, and we chose the campground for its proximity to Smith Rock, which I had never been to, and as a dark spot from which to watch the Perseid meteor shower. In those two ways, the campground worked pretty well! Unfortunately, the lake was in the midst of an algae…

This is a better campground than the other side, except there are a lot of mosquitos all year long. Good fishing though