Forest Road 4610 Dispersed Camping

This is in the Deschutes National Forest. Our campsite was great and super close to downtown Bend. Lots of ant hills, but there was enough open space for us to park our car and set up our tent. Campfires are allowed here, which is super nice. Some mosquito issues, but not bad at all. We would give 5 stars if people didn’t just empty their trash into the woods, but their wasn’t trash in the campsite itself.

We camped in the gravel lot, which is nothing special but location is nice. It is about 15 mins to downtown Bend, 20 to Tumalo Falls, close to some fun MTB trails as in right outside your door. But it's busy and just a gravel lot. My biggest complaint is the internet. We work full-time and it was a headache getting internet to work. If it did work it was slow. We have T-Mobile home internet and would get 2-3 bars max. During the morning it was doable, after 12.. Just an uphill battle. We also have Verizon with pepwave booster and for cell serivce. 2 bars max. Same thing after 12 it goes to crap. Even jumping on different band the best I can get at 1:30 on a Wednesday is 1.4 down and .05 up (Verizon after giving up on T-mobile)

As a mountain biker, this location can’t be beat. A major trail system is right in your backyard. The trails get busy but are super fun and well maintained.

The campground itself is ok. There are some isolated spots, but they were all taken. Cell service is dicey out here, road is bumpy but not rutted up. A few seedy characters driving around, not too surprising given the close proximity to bend.

The mountain biking here is so, so worth it. The spaces are nice too. We camped at a site a mile in with no one near us for 2 nights. It was a little Smokey but that’s par for the course in fire season. The road is slightly bumpy but it’s all soft pumice rocks so it was no biggy crushing them with my RV tires.

It’s a straight shot out from bend on a single road. Its also near this little bakery called Sparrows. Try this place out!!

Great space to camp, work, mountain bike! The trails are right outside your door. And you're about six miles from Bend. The road gets rougher the further in you go, but a decent amount of space as soon as you enter. If you have a big rig, careful, rough road and not a lot of space to turn around. If you have tents or a small rig with decent clearance, you've got a lot of choices. Since we stayed closer to the main road, the cell service (AT&T) worked well (we have a booster), and it's beautiful (dusty road all the time, though) and the trails are right there!

I stayed here for a month with no issues. It was nice, quiet, and close to Bend. I was only 10-15 min away from Bend which was good so I can work. This area is right in the middle of a big trailhead for mountain bikers so you’ll see them quite often. It does get dusty which is my only complaint but manageable. I would camp here again!
*Reading past reviews, I believe they must have “cleaned up” the area from trash and homeless cause I didn’t see any of that.

We stayed here last year. There were a couple "Residents", but we introduced ourselves and they turned out to be nice. As for trash; We spent Earth Day Cleaning up. It was bad but manageable.

HOWEVER; We returned to scout it out for another visit to Bend. We were heartbroken to see what had become of the are. There are abandoned vehicles and tents. All (we do mean ALL) sites had garbage in them. This is not a place we would camp. It feels dangerous.