Peninsula (Olallie) Campground

If you enjoy getting away from the crowds and camping more primitively, this place is for you. Facilities at the campground include vault toilets and trash cans, but no running water, so bring your own. There is a boat dock and a few sites even have direct lake access. Some of the best rainbow trout fishing can be had here, there are some big ones lurking deep. Unfortunately since this is a reservoir, swimming isn't allowed, but human powered boats (canoe, kayak, SUP) are allowed.

If hiking is your thing, not only is there a relatively easy trail, i.e. good for families, that goes around the entire outline of the lake, but the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) is nearby, with some great views and small lakes (that you can swim in) along the way. Oddly in camp the mosquitos weren't bad, but on this section of the PCT I got eaten alive, so bring plenty of protection during mosquito season.

Before you get to the campground you'll see the the Olallie Lake "resort" with some primitive cabins and a yurt to rent. The resort has a small store (be sure to support them with a purchase) with pedal boats, rowboats and canoes that can be rented here.

There's plenty to do at Olallie Lake, so bring your fishing pole, your swim suit and your hiking boots and enjoy the amazing secluded views of Mt Jefferson and Ollalie Butte, and the solitude.

Lovely area but the road in and around lake is rough. I would not recommend an RV into this site. Toilets kept clean. Sites are good size but not real level between tent pads and tables/vehicles. Fish in the lake late in the summer can be hard to find/catch but they are in there if you try hard enough. Look for the deep holes. There are two of them.

We went in July of last year. Our campground turnoff was prior to the store/launch. It’s posted at the boat launch that you cannot win in the water but nowhere else. We went in and found tons of dead fish snagged to a line, paint cans, a couple freebasing pipes that were broken, and food people didn’t eat and threw into the water. It was very polluted and they are worried about human waste or whatever. This is not a very family friendly place for when it really hot out.