Central Cascades Wilderness Permits Will be Required This Summer

If you want to ride in Oregon’s Three Sisters, Mt. Jefferson, or Mt. Washington Wilderness Areas this summer, be sure to plan ahead. Twenty trailheads in the Central Cascades will require all trail users to have a permit to access the trails from June 15th through October 15th. About 40% of the permits available for a given day will become available at www.recreation.gov in a rolling ten day window before the permit date. The remainder will become available in a rolling window two days before the permit date.
These are the trailheads where Wilderness Permits will be required:
  • THREE SISTERS WILDERNESS
  • Broken Top
  • Crater Ditch
  • Devils Lake
  • Green Lakes/Soda Creek
  • Lava Camp
  • Obsidian
  • Scott
  • Sisters Mirror
  • Tam McArthur Rim
  • Todd Creek
  • Todd Lake
  • Wickiup
  • MT. JEFFERSON WILDERNESS
  • Duffy Lake
  • Jack Lake
  • Marion Lake
  • Pamelia Lake
  • Santiam Pass PCT
  • Whitewater
  • MT. WASHINGTON WILDERNESS
  • Benson/Tenas
  • McKenzie Pass PCT

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