The Deschutes National Forest's 14-day camping order expires November 15, and no replacement was posted as of November 2

The order that sets the camping stay limit across the Deschutes National Forest runs out on November 15, 2026. On November 2, the forest’s alerts page listed no replacement. If you camp long stretches around Bend, Sisters or La Pine, check again before you count your days.

What the current order says

Forest Order 06-01-25-01, read November 2, 2026, prohibits two things:

1. Camping or occupying “a single location (including leaving camping equipment and/or related supplies) for a period longer than 14 consecutive calendar days.”
2. Camping or leaving equipment “at any location” on the forest lands the order covers “for more than 28 calendar days total during a calendar year.”

The second limit is the one that bites. It’s an annual cap across the forest, not a reset after you move. “Camping equipment” includes “any vehicle used for transportation,” so a parked rig counts. The order says it “will remain in force until November 15, 2026, unless the Order is rescinded sooner.”

Why the expiry date matters

The federal regulation has no number of its own. 36 CFR 261.58 prohibits “camping for a period longer than allowed by the order.” The number lives in the order, so when the order ends, the number ends with it, unless a new order replaces it. We explained how that works in our piece on national forest stay limits.

The current order says it was executed in Bend on November 15, 2024, and ran two years. The forest may well renew it. We haven’t seen a renewal, and we’re not going to guess at what one would say.

Don’t read a lapse as no limit. The forest can sign a new order any day, and a new order sets its own effective date, as this one did. Neither the 14-day nor the 28-day number is guaranteed to carry over.

What doesn’t expire

The forest’s separate camping and campfire order, 06-01-26-01, runs until April 2, 2031. It bans camping outright in the Whychus Creek Riparian Corridor, the Bend Municipal Watershed, the Cascade Lakes Highway Scenic Views Corridor, and the Deschutes Wild and Scenic River corridor from the forest boundary at Bend to County Road 40. It also limits camping to developed campgrounds and existing dispersed sites in other areas, including Three Creeks Lake, and to developed campgrounds and resorts in Newberry Caldera. None of that changes on November 15.

What to do

1. After November 15, open the Deschutes alerts page and look for a new camping order.
2. If the page is unclear, call the Supervisor’s Office at (541) 383-5300 and ask for the current stay-limit order by number.
3. Read the sign at the road junction. 36 CFR 261.51 requires each prohibition to be displayed where it reasonably reaches the public. The posted order and the ranger beat this page.

Our Oregon free camping page covers the stay limits we’ve verified on some of Oregon’s other national forests.