Central Cascades Wilderness Passes
Every Central Cascades Wilderness wilderness-permit entry point on recreation.gov - AllTrails ratings, demand scores, and a trailhead map.
The Central Cascades Wilderness permit covers overnight trips in the Three Sisters, Mount Jefferson, and Mount Washington Wildernesses of Oregon's Deschutes and Willamette National Forests, a landscape of volcanoes, alpine lakes, and Pacific Crest Trail high country. A permit is required for overnight backcountry trips at the area's quota trailheads during the summer season, and the most popular trailheads sell out quickly.
Top Central Cascades Wilderness entry points
The most in-demand entry points, ranked by how fast each one books up on recreation.gov.
- Crown Lake/Roaring Creek - Very high demand - 3.9 on AllTrails
- Dry Creek - Access Point (CLOSED) - Very high demand
- Hortense Lake - Access Point (CLOSED) - Very high demand
- South Breitenbush/Triangulation/Cheat Creek - Very high demand - 4.4 on AllTrails
- Taylor Burn/Helen Lake/Jack Pine - Very high demand - 4.3 on AllTrails
- Todd - Very high demand - 4.7 on AllTrails
- Broken Top/Crater Ditch - Very high demand - 4.8 on AllTrails
- Tam McArthur Rim - Very high demand - 4.8 on AllTrails
- Pamelia Lake - Very high demand - 4.7 on AllTrails
- Green Lake/Soda Creek - Very high demand - 4.8 on AllTrails
- Devil's Lake/Wickiup (South Sister) - Very high demand - 4.8 on AllTrails
- Whitewater - High demand - 4.6 on AllTrails
All Central Cascades Wilderness passes
Choose an entry point or campsite for permit rules, release timing, demand, and nearby alternatives.
- Bear Valley
- Benson/Tenas
- Bingham Ridge/Minto Mountain
- Box Canyon/Crossing Way
- Broken Top/Crater Ditch
- Cabot Lake
- Chush Falls
- Crown Lake/Roaring Creek
- Devil's Lake/Wickiup (South Sister)
- Dry Creek - Access Point (CLOSED)
- Duffy Lake/Big Meadows Horse Camp
- East Fork, Upper & Lower
- Elk Lake
- Foley
- French Pete
- Green Lake/Soda Creek
- Hand Lake
- Horse Creek/Rainbow
- Hortense Lake - Access Point (CLOSED)
- Irish Taylor (PCT)
- Jack Lake (Canyon Creek Meadows)
- Jefferson Lake
- Lava Camp (Matthieu Lakes)
- Linton Lake
- Lucky Lake
- Many Lakes/Deer Lake
- Marion Lake
- Obsidian/Scott
- Pamelia Lake
- Park Meadow
- Patjens
- PCT Big Lake
- PCT Breitenbush / Breitenbush Lake
- PCT McKenzie Pass
- PCT Santiam
- Pine Ridge
- Pole Creek
- Quinn Meadow
- Rebel/Olallie/Elk Creek/South Fork
- Robinson Lake
- Round Lake
- Scott Pass/Millican Crater/Black Crater
- Separation Lake
- Sisters Mirror
- Six Lakes
- Skookum
- South Breitenbush/Triangulation/Cheat Creek
- Tam McArthur Rim
- Taylor Burn/Helen Lake/Jack Pine
- Tenas Lakes/Fingerboard Prairie
- Three Creek Meadow
- Todd
- Upper French Pete/Pat Saddle/Upper Lowder
- Whitewater
- Winopee/Corral Lake/Corral Swamp
- Woodpecker
Popular trails
- Metolius-Windigo - Trail 99: Three Creek Meadow to Sisters - 4.9 on AllTrails
- No Name Lake and Bend Glacier via Crater Ditch Trail - 4.8 on AllTrails
- South Sister Climber Trail - 4.8 on AllTrails
- Green Lakes and Soda Creek Loop - 4.8 on AllTrails
- Canyon Creek Meadows Loop - 4.8 on AllTrails
- Obsidian Trail - 4.8 on AllTrails
- Tam McArthur Rim Trail - 4.8 on AllTrails
- Marion Lake Trail - 4.7 on AllTrails
Central Cascades Wilderness permit guide · Book on recreation.gov