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

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