Adams Fork Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 29 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25–$45Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 23All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Nestled among tall conifers on the Adams Creek Fork of the Cispus River, Adams Fork Campground offers single sites for tent and RV camping, as well as three double sites, with several of the sites sitting along the banks of the river. Adams Fork Campground makes an excellent base from which to explore Mount St. Helens and the surrounding area. Nearby multi-use trails offer a myriad of recreational activities, in addition to trout fishing in the Cispus River. Keep reading
Recreation
Part of the Randle Recreation Area, Adams Fork Campground is an ideal location for many recreational activities. The Valley Trail network, popular with dirt bikes and ATVs, offers 50 miles of multi-use trails close to this campground. Hikers, horseback riders and mountain bikers can also use the Valley Trail, which offers views of the Cispus River Valley and Tongue Mountain and anglers can fish for brook trout in the Cispus River.
Facilities
This campground consists of 24 paved back in sites, including three double sites that can accommodate 12 to 25 campers. Many of the sites are small but still usable by RVs, with a maximum parking spur length of 30 feet. There are no water or electric hook-ups, but drinking water and vault toilets are provided. Fire rings are provided. Nearby ORV trails, the campground is popular with ORV riders. Campers should expect riders coming and going from the campground.
Natural Features
Located in southwest Washington State, the Gifford Pinchot National Forest encompasses over 1.3 million acres, including the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument established by Congress in 1982. Adams Fork is part of the Cowlitz Valley Ranger District, which is located in the northernmost portion of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southwest Washington. This Ranger District manages four Wilderness Areas including the Goat Rocks Wilderness, Glacier View Wilderness, Tatoosh Wilderness and William O Douglass Wilderness. The Cispus River originates in a high glacial valley in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, and flows through heavily forested areas before before meeting the North Fork and flowing westerly past many trails and campgrounds.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby town of Randle offers an access point to the Windy Ridge viewpoint at Mount St. Helens. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (360) 686-3008 for general information.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
- Check in: 2 pm, Check out: 12 pm (noon) - Sites are available to reserve and some are on a first-come first-serve basis. ATV/OHV riding is not permitted within the campground - please limit use to transportation in and out of the facility. - Don't Move Firewood: Please protect Pacific Northwest forests by preventing the spread of invasive species. Firewood can carry insects and diseases that can threaten the health of our western forests. You can make a difference by obtaining and burning your firewood near your camping destination. - Click here for more information about Gifford Pinchot National Forest - Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information about Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Camping fee covers the first two vehicles (2 cars or RV/Trailer and tow vehicle). Extra vehicle fee of $8.00 is charged for the third vehicle.
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 23
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 42 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 23
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 24 of 24 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 24 of 24 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (HAND PUMP) on 24 of 24 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Night sky · 136th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 8 days ago, 23 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
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One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicle Fee $8.00” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$45 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 23 mapped sitesAll 24 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 24 of the 24 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 23 of the 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 001 Host | host pad | 40 ft | 532 ft | 453 ft | ||
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 002 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 94 ft | 504 ft | 374 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 56 ft | 400 ft | 198 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 004 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 82 ft | 472 ft | 280 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 005 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 56 ft | 409 ft | 143 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 71 ft | 473 ft | 204 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 007 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 71 ft | 494 ft | 149 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 008 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 105 ft | 498 ft | 56 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 103 ft | 447 ft | 106 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 103 ft | 395 ft | 195 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 011 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 71 ft | 211 ft | 175 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 012 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 110 ft | 250 ft | 108 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 013 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 65 ft | 142 ft | 187 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 014 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 83 ft | 132 ft | 46 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 015 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 55 ft | 133 ft | 126 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 016 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 50 ft | 78 ft | 153 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 017 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 37 ft | 42 ft | 135 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 018 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 37 ft | 40 ft | 156 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 019 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 76 ft | 115 ft | 75 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 020 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 68 ft | 39 ft | 129 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 021 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 69 ft | 61 ft | 160 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 022 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 188 ft | 174 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 023 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 69 ft | 92 ft | 200 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA ADAMS FORK | 024 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 91 ft | 104 ft | 263 ft | $25–$45 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Olallie Lake CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 3.5 mi
Horseshoe Lake CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 4.4 mi
Takhlakh Lake CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 4.6 mi
Killen Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.7 mi
Blue Lake Creek Campground - Gifford Pinchot NF (WA)Gifford Pinchot National Forest · 6.2 miTwin Falls CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 8.6 miTake I-5 to State Highway 12 and exit at Randle, Washington. Follow State Highway 131 for 1 mile, staying left at the fork, and continuing on Forest Service Road 23. Stay left at next fork for Forest Service Road 21 to Forest Service Road 56 to arrive at the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Packwood, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 24°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Adams Fork Campground is in Washington’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: C. See every public-lands vote →