Beaver Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 8 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $27–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2524 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Beaver Campground is nestled among large, old maple and sycamore trees, offering a quiet and private family camping experience. Its location along the Wind River provides opportunities for anglers, but other recreational activities can be found in abundance here as well. On-site playground equipment and horseshoe games offer fun for all ages and the surrounding forest allows visitors the chance to discover many animal and plant species. Keep reading
Recreation
The Wind River offers Chinook salmon and steelhead trout fishing for anglers.(check state regulations for season open/close) And the nearby Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife fish hatchery offers opportunities in the spring to view Chinook salmon. Kayaks and canoes are permitted on the Wind River and the surrounding area offers opportunities for hiking, horseback riding and biking. Berry picking is popular in season.
Facilities
This campground consists of 24 campsites that can accommodate either tents or RVs. One group site is available and can accommodate up to 50 people and 10 vehicles. vault toilets are available and drinking water is offered on-site. Picnic tables and fire pits are provided. Beaver Campground is very unique, having a swingset, activity field and horseshoe pit available on-site, providing entertainment for all ages.
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. Beaver Campground is located in the Mount Adams Ranger District, in the easternmost portion of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. This district spans 367,000 acres and includes the Mt Adams Wilderness, Indian Heaven Wilderness and Trapper Creek Wilderness. Mt Adams, a potentially active stratovolcano and the second-tallest mountain in Washington state, is a prominent landmark of the District. Elevations here range between 1,200 feet at the Wind River Work Center (12 miles north of Carson, WA) and 12,276 feet at the summit of Mt. Adams. A great diversity of habitats and geological features are represented here, from old growth to second growth forests and wetland areas to low and high elevation meadows and lakes, as well as glaciers. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (360) 729-0018 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Beaver Campground is one of the closest Forest Service campsites to the Columbia River Gorge and Portland, Oregon. The nearby town of Carson is known for its hot springs, but visitors can also find the Wind River Arboretum, a golf course, restaurants and shopping.
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. Group Sites Group Facility (including Cabins and Lookouts): A visitor who cancels a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use 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)
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment and tires before using lake or trails.
Click here for more information about Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Extra vehicle fee of $8.00/night of stay.
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 25 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 24 of 25
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…up to 50 people and 10 vehicles. vault toilets are available and drinking water is offered…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…vault toilets are available and drinking water is offered on-site. Picnic tables and fire pits are…”
- Playground
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Birding
- Fish Hatchery
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Water access
- Night sky · 347th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 24 of the 25 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
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, $27–$50 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
25 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 25 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 25 of the 25 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 96 ft | 223 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 129 ft | 87 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 84 ft | under 10 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 77 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 89 ft | 62 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | under 10 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 106 ft | under 10 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 130 ft | 55 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 111 ft | 93 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 90 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 128 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 88 ft | 178 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 139 ft | 270 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 83 ft | 358 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 83 ft | 427 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 173 ft | 301 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 99 ft | 247 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 99 ft | 154 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 102 ft | 270 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 118 ft | 177 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 96 ft | 301 ft | $27–$50 | |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 102 ft | 228 ft | $27–$50 |
| AREA BEAVER CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 97 ft | 314 ft | $27–$50 | |
| GROUP LOOP | 001 | type not stated | 40 ft | 425 ft | $27 | ||
| GROUP LOOP | A | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 453 ft | 116 ft | $140 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Govt Mineral Springs Guard StaGifford Pinchot National Forest · 2.5 mi
Panther Creek campgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 4.5 mi
Paradise Creek campgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 6.6 mi
Goose Lake CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 11 miCat Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 12 miCody HorsecampGifford Pinchot National Forest · 12 miTake Highway 14 to Carson, WA and continue north on Wind River Highway for 13 miles to reach the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Carson, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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
Beaver 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: F. See every public-lands vote →