Sometimes the best campsites are at trailheads. This sounds odd, but this particular Trailhead/Campsites is one of the coolest places I’ve been to in Oregon. Up on top of Cloud Cap Road sits Cloud Cap Campground. The Cloud Cap was an old hotel that now serves as an epic car camping spot. There’s plenty of access to amazing hiking and mountaineering from the Cloud Cap Camping Area. We ended up camping out for a few nights here. It gets crazy on the weekends so you’ve been warned we had the place to ourselves until Saturday morning.
Aside from the awesome camping site with volcano views and milky way dust, there are some awesome trails right out your slider door. Our favorite trail was Cooper Spur. This is a 5.5-mile hike with over 3,000 vertical feet of climbing. The climb is worth it. The turn around for most people is once you get on top of the Cooper Spur. We saw lots of people backpacking up here on the weekend and there are some amazing sites up on the spur and below at the rock shelter. If the campsite is full throw your tent in your backpack and head on up the mountain.
