Pine Ridge Lake is a lake located near Camp Pioneer, a Scouts BSA camp, and is the trailhead for Pine Ridge Trail #3443, which connects to Marion Lake and other parts of the Mount Jefferson Wilderness, and is in close proximity to the Pacific Crest Trail.

In fact, Scout Lake is about 3 miles (4.8 km) from Pine Ridge, and was supposed to be the site of the summer camp.

[2] In the summertime, due to the stagnant nature of parts of the lake, it becomes heavily populated by Mosquitos.

The lake (and surrounding camp) has been used as a basecamp for fighting the frequent forest fires in the area.

In 2002, a forest fire temporarily closed the summer camp, with the United States Forest Service using the camp as a command post to fight the fire.