Why was Hoodoo chosen to manage the campgrounds?
Hoodoo Ski Area has been around for over 70 years. Around 1994 the Forest Service approached Hoodoo asking them to start managing some of the local campgrounds around the ski area. Other companies from other states were already managing many of the campgrounds in the Cascades, but the Willamette Forest was having a hard time finding anyone to do the smaller remote campgrounds. Over the years, as Hoodoo has proved itself and has shown that the ski industry and camping industry can work well together, Hoodoo has been encouraged to bid on managing other areas as well. In 1999 Hoodoo started managing all of the Sisters area of the Deschutes. In 2001 Hoodoo started managing the Middle Fork of the Willamette Forest as well as the Willamette campgrounds on Hwy 126 and Hwy 20 near the summit. As Hoodoo started to expand we kept enlarging the amount of services that we were providing, a website, phone answering, and much better maintenance. The better services meant that Hoodoo needed to grow l
