Plan Your Visit
Plan your visit
Getting ready for the mountain
What to pack, what’s waiting for you at the lodge, and how to find us.
Guests will need to bring
- Personal bedding
- Towels & toiletries
- Recreational equipment
- Audio-visual equipment, power strip
- Firewood, kindling, matches/lighter, briquettes
In the kitchen
- Food & beverages
- Spices & condiments
- Dish towels
- Specialty cooking equipment
- Coffee filters
- Disposable plates, cups, etc., if you don’t want to do dishes
- Napkins
- Plastic wrap, aluminum foil
Paradise Trail Lodge provides
- Beds for 25 people
- Couches, chairs, tables
- Propane gas heater
- Cleaning supplies
- Fireplace
- 2 Shovels
In the kitchen
- 2 Refrigerators
- 2 Ranges (1 gas, 1 electric)
- Microwave
- Pots and pans
- 2 Large stock pots
- Cookie sheets and oven trays
- Kitchen utensils
- Place settings for 40 (silverware, plates, bowls, cups)
- Paper towels
- Cleaning supplies
- Serving trays
- Coffee maker
- Tea kettles
- Mixing bowls
- 2 – 4 slice toasters
- Garbage bags
Take your trash homeGuests are required to take all garbage and recycling home to dispose of. The lodge does not have garbage or recycling service.
Directions
Getting here from Portland
- Take Hwy 26 east through Sandy and continue for approximately 20 miles.
- Continue on Hwy 26 through the cities of Brightwood, Welches and Rhododendron.
- Travel 4 miles past Rhododendron to Kiwanis Camp Road (aka: Road 39). Kiwanis Camp Road is just past mile marker 48.5 and is on the left (so you will want to be in the left lane). To the right of Hwy 26, directly across from the road, you will see “Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp” and “Elevation 2500 feet” signs. Turn left.
- Proceed down road 1/2 mile. Paradise Trail Lodge will be the first building on your right.
See the rooms before you go
Take a look around the main room, kitchen, bathrooms and sleeping quarters.