Lost Creek Lake is a long reservoir under the conifers, flat by late day, with the last boats idling back into the marina below the campground loops. A rig parked on one of those loops for days has the whole stretch of water in front of it. Past the lake, Highway 62 keeps climbing toward the Cascades and Crater Lake.
People around Medford book this lake for whole weeks, and a motorhome or a trailer on a hookup site is what lets a week here stay put. With power at the site the air runs through the hot valley afternoons, the fridge stays cold without a generator, and nobody has to pack up to go anywhere. The days go to the water and the marina, with a run up the mountain whenever the sky is clear.
Valley of the Rogue to Lost Creek Lake, night by night
The first night lands easiest at Valley of the Rogue State Park, right off I-5 with full-hookup sites, pull-throughs, an RV dump station, and camping all year. The Rogue runs alongside the park, and it takes the pressure off a late start from Medford or a family rolling in from farther up the interstate. Fill the fresh tank and empty the others there before heading for the lake.
Morning two is the Highway 62 climb out of the valley, the road following the Rogue into the foothills until Lost Creek Lake spreads out below it. Jackson County runs the campground on the lake at Joseph H. Stewart County Park, with more than 200 sites, many with water and electric hookups, online reservations, and a resort store and marina open mid-April through October as of September 2026. Reserve the site before you book the rig, and let the site you land decide whether the week is a motorhome or a delivered trailer.
Midweek settles into mornings on the water, long afternoons in the shade of the campsite loops, and dinner outside once the heat breaks. Water and power at the site mean the rig doesn't move until the week is over, when it rolls back down Highway 62 for a second stop at the Valley of the Rogue dump station.
If you'd rather have a town beside the lake, Emigrant Lake outside Ashland runs the same kind of hookup week with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival close by, and the Ashland RV page covers that base.
Crater Lake from Mazama Village
From Stewart it's about 40 miles to Crater Lake, all of it on Highway 62 as the road gains the Cascades. In June the snowbanks still line the approach, and then the first pullout on the rim shows the lake in a deep blue that hardly looks real through a windshield. Plenty of families run it as a day from Lost Creek, and a night or two up top gives you the rim at dawn and dusk as well.
Mazama Village Campground sits just inside the park below the rim, open about June through late September as of September 2026, with reservations on Recreation.gov and a dump station free for campers. Book the Mazama site before the rig, because the hookup sites are limited and the season is short.
Rim Drive circles the caldera on switchbacks and drop-offs with no shoulder, and the Park Service notes it has no turnarounds for large vehicles. Take it slowly in the motorhome, or give the drive to a smaller rig from Medford that makes the loop the whole trip.
