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Crest Camp Trailhead Campground

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Crest Horse Camp is a very small, primitive campground. This site has easy access to good hiking and horse back riding on the Pacific Crest Trail which runs north from the trailhead to Indian Heaven Wilderness and south past the Big Lava Bed. The campites and interior roads a minimally developed. There is no loop road though the camp which limits the number of horse trailers that can use the site at any one time. The nearby Pacific Crest trailhead has parking for cars. One toilet and four campsites alongside Forest Road 60.

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Audrey M.

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Reviewed Jun. 29, 2021

Camped here right before hiking up to Big Huckleberry Mountain!

We camped here for one night and it was delightful. Bathrooms are vault toilets and were kept clean enough. The drive to this specific location showed us a ton of other dispersed sites along the side of the road; we saw plenty of other cars that pulled into one of them before we got to the main campground at the trailhead. This place is a popular spot for PCT hikers, on the day we arrived we ran into a group that had organized a camping meetup.

We camped here in early June which meant mosquitos; I was definitely under-prepared, so I'd advise anyone coming here to bring lots and lots of bug spray. Not the organic stuff that fades after 2 hours, but actual Deet. Our Thermacell and citronella candles did nothing in preventing mosquitos.

If you're into it, there are popular dirt biking trails around. We saw many people hauling their bikes up to the campgrounds.

Some sites have picnic tables, others do not. We built a small fire pit out of rocks and were able to find some dried wood that had fallen around us to burn. There were also plenty of pinecones to use as fire starter.

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Location

Crest Camp Trailhead Campground is located in Washington

Directions

From Carson, Washington drive north for 4.8 miles on Wind River Highway to Panther Creek Road. Take a right on Panther Creek Road at the sign for Panther Creek Campground. Stay on this road, which becomes Forest Road 65 at the forest boundary, for approximately 11 miles. At the intersection with Forest Road 60, take a right onto Forest Road 60. Travel about 1.7 miles on Forest Road 60 to the campground and Pacific Crest Trail access.