Collins Lake Resort

Love the design and layout. Very clean. Modern. Feels well kept with easy access to the pool house and town of Government Camp.
Leisure pool needs to be warmer, and at my age, there are too many steps.

We always stay here when coming up to board at Mt. Hood. Love the homes and the people who work here are super friendly. We’ll be back!

Booked a pet friendly chalet for our Anniversary Weekend and had an amazing time. Appreciate the detailed photos and descriptions of the chalets so you can pick the exact amenities you are looking for.
Office staff super friendly. We will definitely be back!

Super nice condo. Quite a few units. We enjoyed the pool and hot tub area.
I would recommend this place to friends and family.
Very close to Portland and easy to find. I will go back next year. Hopefully there will be snow.

I loved this place! We came up just for one night in during the Fourth of July weekend and managed to get one of the last townhouses with a great (possibly majestic?) view of Mt. Hood.
The staff, especially Heather, was great to work with in setting up the reservation and when we arrived she was great!
The location in Government Camp is awesome.
I recommend experiencing Govt Camp in the summertime because it’s so festive with ski and snowboard teams from all over the world staying in town.

very friendly service, and the condo that we were in #141 has a great view of mt hood. and you can walk to the restaurants. everything was there except the SNOW.

property and condos were awesome. We got exactly what the description said we would get. No surprises.
All of the condos are walking distance to the pool which is clean and the water is warm. The kids loved the pool.
All of government camp is within walking distance so everything is close.
For the price you can not beat what you get.

Great place! I would highly recommend this place. I wrote more in the «check-​in» part.

Just enjoyed the greatest service and best accommodations we’ve had in just about EVER! Friendly staff, great locale. Couldn’t get over how well stocked the condo was. Government Camp was the coolest little town with excellent restaurants. And of course the ever present view of Mt. Hood was spectacular. My grand kids live in Portland now so we’re gonna be back soon.

Stayed with some friends in a 3 bedroom lodge condo. Absolutely perfect! All we needed to bring was food. Located with-​in walking distance of Skibowl and ships and cafes if is a perfect place for a snow fun weekend. The Huckleberry Inn café is open 24hrs. We enjoyed great drinks, pizza and an unforgettable Seahawks NFC win at the Ratskeller. Amazing weekend at a little ski town I had never heard of at Mt Hood.

What an overpriced miss this turned out to be. Where to begin… Should I start with the garbage left in the condo for us to clean up? How about the single coffee filter available for our use? Maybe the adolescents screaming and shooting off fireworks until eleven… in a super-​dry July? I guess I could be upset that two of the bathrooms had half consumed (i.e. used by somebody else) toiletries… But I suppose that the gift voucher that we were presented with that is applicable on our next visit is supposed to take the sting out of having to shell out a few hundred bucks to stay a couple nights in a cramped, over-​furnished nightmare of a condo that didn’t really even allow for us to place our luggage anywhere indoors.
My overall impressions can be summed up by: overfurnished, dirty and pretty well misrepresented, all topped off with saccharine sweet apologies and assurances that this NEVER happens, with a sprinkling of reasons why these things may happen from time to time.
There is no excuse for leaving guests with dishes in this condition, put away in cupboards and allegedly ready for use. I’m actually wondering if the State Heath Department does any type of certification of rental properties of this type.
Thanks to the Collins Lake staff for the gift certificate, but that isn’t quite motivation enough for us to come back and give you the opportunity to throw unwanted hassles into our time off. While I don’t feel that «you couldn’t pay me to stay another night» quite describes my feelings about this; I can say that you would need to shell out a very tidy sum to coerce me into another night in that mess.
(We gave away the voucher. Again, a discount is not enough to make us even consider giving up another weekend on the gamble that we might have a better experience.)

This building is huge and cool looking. We’re are here in the off season and have the place too our selves. The room is very spacious and fits 6 adults very comfortably.
The building is centrally located to restaurants and activities.

We had a family gathering at Collins Lake Resort between Christmas and New Years. The condo was very well layed out for our group of 6. Furnishings were very comfortable; good beds, nice linens, well equipped kitchen, comfortable couch. Complaints are it was way too hott, which seems weird in the winter, but we opened windows and doors and couldn’t get it below 74. Security is also a concern. Anyone can access garage and walk to door of rooms. Why there is not a locked door between outside and the condo building is a question we had. There is a security code for the garage, but you can walk through the door and access the garage. Also it is expensive especially compared to Sunriver/​Mt. Bachelor.

Location, location, location!
This place is in a really good location in the heart of Govy Camp, so just park your car for the weekend and walk everywhere in town.
Also to note on the location, is make sure you know where you want to rent, too close to the pool you get noise from kids during the day, and drunks at night. Too close to HWY 26 and the Jake brakes from the trucks will wake you up. Too close to the main office/​entrance, and you’ll have traffic driving around in circles all day.
My only thought is that there should be an 18 an over age after 9pm in the hot tub that’s in the woods.

My friend bought a condo here and always invites me down for holiday events or long weekends. He has a condo at the bottom plot and it’s short walk to the secluded woods jacuzzi so that’s always fun. I always have a great time here.

Stayed at the South Lodge. Sevice was top notch. The only thing that was not great was the reception in one of our friends rooms (who watches TV at Mt. Hood) and after one phone call they had someone up quickly and the problem was solved. Facilty is great and I would recommend it to all. Kids love the pool adults love the fact the pool isn’t right outside your window. Outdoor hot tub was nice after skiing.

I had to be at Timberline Lodge for a wedding this past Sunday. Instead of paying some ridiculous amount of money to stay at Timberline, you can have all the benefits of the area by staying at Collins Lake Resort.
The condo we stayed in was awesome. It was clean, decorated in a ski theme with old school skis and sleds and pics of Mt. Hood. It’s nice to have had access to games from the rental office — and the pool and hot tub, which were really close to our unit. The garage that held 2 cars was super handy too. We even had 3 couples stay in this 3 BR and we felt like we had enough room to spread out a bit. OK, we like each other a lot, so that probably helped. HA.
The resort itself has so many cute little restaurants within a nice walk or quick drive. It’s also really close to Ski Bowl, where you can mountain bike and take a sled like thing to go down a super long slide — kinda like a luge, but not. Like I’ve already stated, it’s really close to Timberline so you can get great views of Mt. Hood and go one of the trails.
I’d stay at Collins again. Next time, I’ll have to come with my snowboard.

We stayed here with our race team the night before the Hood to Coast Relay. Given that there was plenty of room for 6 of us in each 3^rd floor, 3-​bedroom condo (and we were the only couple) they are plenty spacious.
The rooms are big, the views of Mt. Hood awesome and the fixtures in the condos all new. I did not have time to go to the hot tub, so can’t comment on that.
The only noise I was really aware of was the logging trucks coming past in the morning. Nice place overall.

Def the nicest place I’ve seen in Govy. Was there recently with a ski racing team.
Pros — Walk to town. Nice pool, spa, sauna, and shared pool /​community house with kitchen. Great for groups needing multiple units near each other. Concierge desk for those renting through Collins Lake Resort… shipped my skis out for me. Large garage below.
Cons — Some views off the deck are really bad like construction zones where construction was stopped way before the recession. Ask for a unit overlooking the stream. Units had poor ventilation with bedroom doors closed. Middle bedroom in my unit had no windows at all! Some units were dated. Generally quiet but, with all of the kids roaming there in the summer, not as quiet as a private house or some other location outside of town.

We booked our winter ski condo at Collins Lake via VBRO, and the overall process was pretty easy. The location is great for not being a ski in ski out unit — you can easily walk to a few restaurants, liquor store, shops. The Mt. Hood Ski Bowl is literally across the highway. Timberline, Meadows, etc. are all within a 30 minute drive or less away.
The community amenities were also quite nice, with 2 communal hot tubs (the one out back in the middle of the trees was spectacular), a pool, a sauna, and community room w/​fireplace.
Our unit itself was very nice and clean. However, I will note that the buildings do not seem to be high quality or possibly not insulated well — we were able to hear our neighbors pretty clearly whenever they entered or exited to the point we thought that someone was coming into our condo! But given it was just a vacation rental, it wasn’t a bit deal to us.