BEND, OR -- The Forest Service has several road and maintenance projects in the pipeline, as they prepare the Deschutes National Forest for summer.
Jaimie Olle, with the Forest Service, tells KBND News a popular road on the Sisters Ranger District is getting fixed, “That’s the road that leads to the Three Creeks Lake area. The portion from the gate beyond upper three creeks snow park to three peaks lake will be closed during this construction.” Olle says Forest Service Road 16 reconstruction will start around the end of May, and will take five weeks.
With the heavy spring snowfall, there will likely be delays in openings and access. “Before we open a recreation site, whether that’s a day-use site or a campground, we do a lot of work to make sure it’s safe for the public. So, that’s identifying and removing hazard trees, doing seasonal maintenance, and all those things to get that site prepped. Normally that work would start to occur right now but we can’t even get to those sites,” says Olle.
Reservations for a popular attraction opens today. “50 percent of the Lava River Cave timed reservation tickets will be available on recreation.gov on a 30-day rolling window. The remaining 50 percent of those timed tickets will be available on a 24-hour booking window starting May 4th,” Olle said switching to the reservation system helps with parking spots.
Check the Deschutes National Forest website for updates.
Recreation.gov has reservation information.
