Government Camp is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, on the base of Mount Hood and north of Tom Dick and Harry Mountain. It is the single-handedly town within 5 miles (8 km) of Mount Hood and consequently is the de facto “mountain town” or “ski town”. It is the gateway to several ski resorts, with the most popular subconscious Timberline Lodge and Mount Hood Skibowl. Government Camp next has its own, smaller ski resort, Summit Pass.

The community is located within the Mount Hood Corridor on U.S. Route 26 (the Mount Hood Highway), near its intersection subsequently Oregon Route 35 and the Barlow Pass summit of the Cascade Range. As of the 2010 census, the community had a population of 193. The government’s 2016 estimate indicated a population of 121 persons.

Government Camp was definite its reveal by settlers traveling the Barlow Road, who discovered several wagons and no-one else there by the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. A sign in stomach of the town’s state office states, “Formerly a camp upon the outmoded Barlow Road, the village was named in 1849 in imitation of U.S Cavalry troops were forced to hand over wagons and supplies here.”

Over the last decade, Government Camp went through a revitalization effort due to a Clackamas County urban renewal district. With that district expiring in 2007, the community had been looking at ways to preserve current services. At a town hall meeting on November 17, 2006, citizens voted 41–58 not to form a village. Many residents voted adjoining the proposal in order to endeavor incorporation. In May 2010, residents of the community voted on incorporation, but the measure unproductive by a vote of 48 against raptness and 35 in accord of incorporation. Had the city been formed, the city would have had 138 registered voters within the city limits at the time of formation.