Frog Lake
paddock lakeMt Hood National Forest - Frog Lake Campsite
Situated at the northern end of Frog Lake. The campsite is handicapped access. Passports: Tenting: 50 per cent off for individual campsites with one of these passes: Interage Senior, Interagency Access, Interagency Access, Golden Age oder Golden Access. Leisure passports can be used to pay fees. Entrance via the forest road 2610.
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Frog-Lake Buttes Loop Hike
Frog Lake is a very beloved familycamping and daily goal in the proximity of the Hwy 26. This walk starts and ends here, so you can start your walk with the mirror image of Mount Hood in the lake. There are four walks in this round: Frog Lake Trail #530, Frog Lake Buttes Trail #484, Twin Lakes Trail #495 and Pacific Crest Trail #2000.
Besides the beautiful Frog Lake itself, other attractions include the views of Mount Hood from the south peak of Frog Lake Buttes and the bubbling water of Lower Twin Lake, good for a rotten swim on a warm sunny sunday. If you don't want to use the Frog Lake car parks, there are a few other options: use Frog Lake Sno Parc directly on Highway 26 and take Frog Lake Trail #520 on its eastern side; even if you don't have a Northwest Forest Pass, you can still save the daily charge by using the Frog Lake Buttes trail head.
The lodge poles of Scots pines, cedars, hemlocks, white firs and Douglas Fir Ring Frog Lake, whose shores are surrounded by pasture and blueberries. From the southern end of the lake you have a wonderful look at Mount Hood. Use the path on the eastern side of the lake. There is a bonfire at the end of the frog lake; from here you turn to your lefthand side to the camping ground bend.
Turn right onto the street and take the trail head for Frog Lake Trail #530 opposite the toilets after campground #24. That is Douglas fir, white spruce, Sierra Leone forest with a slightly higher situated alpine hake. Step into a deforestation with a great look at Mount Jefferson in the south.
Continue climbing and cross the path under a FR 290 to the top of Frog Lake Buttes. On the way up to the Silbertannen-/Berghemlockwald with many blueberries. On the ridge top you come to Frog Lake Buttes-Frog Lake Trail Junction.
This area was initially felled, but now young precious firs, white firs and alpine hemlocks grow to about 20'. There is a mobile telephone lighthouse on Frog Lake Buttes Peak, at the old viewpoint, and only part of the sight of Mount Hood through the tree. For a better look down the street and a better look at the hill, in front of Barlow Butte Grat, will reward your short break.
One could walk along the mountain crest to the slightly higher but wooded northern peak of Frog Lake Buttes, but there is no view from there. Return to Frog Lake Buttes-Frog Lake Trail Junction and continue in the direction of Lower Twin Lake. On the side of a mountain crest, the path falls through a thick underwood of blueberry shrubs.
Whitewood, alpine hemlock, Douglas fir and some occidental pines make up the awning. At Frog Lake Buttes-Lower Twin Lake Trail Junction on the banks of Lower Twin Lake, turn right. Coming to a large campground at the end of the lake. Locate your way to Twin Lakes (Barlow)-Lower Twin Lake trail junction (If you want to prolong your walk, you should go to Upper Twin Lake (see Twin Lakes Hike) or on to Palmateer Point (see Twin Lakes-Palmateer Point Loop Hike)).
At the crossroads turn to your lefthand and follow the diamond tree. Cross a large pine tree and you' ll arrive at the crest and Pacific Crest-Twin Lakes Trail South Junction. 2 km from the beach. Walk to Pacific Crest-Frog Lake Trail Junction, where the signage is gone, and turn lefts.
The Sno Park frog lake can be seen through the tree on the right. Go across the tarmac to the campsite: the path goes between this street and Highway 26. Stay on the cobbled lower street and turn right to the Frog Lake Day-use Area.