We car camped here in February to test out winter camping for the first time. Luckily we already had an Oregon sno-park permit so we were able to put it to good use in this area. We snowboarded during the day, headed into downtown Bend for some dinner, then headed back to this sno-park afterwards to setup camp (aka, the back of the car). The first thing we noticed was that the parking lot was still pretty full for 7pm at night. We spoke with some people and heard they were going on a late night hiking trip to the warming hut for a couple of hours. It sounded really exciting and definitely something I would try in the future!

There's bathrooms in the parking lot and near the information signage, overall this sno-park is really peaceful at night and we were able to get a good night's rest. It is pretty busy during the winter months, but we didn't stick around the area since we were mainly snowboarding Mt. Bachelor during the day.