Beth Lake Campground
1Heads up1 fire 48 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Beth Lake Campground, located in Washington's Colville National Forest.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…site Extra Vehicle: $5/per night No Water Available at this time”
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 14:29 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
“Camping: $10/single site Extra Vehicle: $5/per night No Water Available at this time” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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.
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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 14:29 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Beth Lake | 01 | standard nonelectric | 133 ft | 153 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 02 | standard nonelectric | 133 ft | 227 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 03 | standard nonelectric | 220 ft | 160 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 04 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 45 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 05 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 40 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 06 | standard nonelectric | 230 ft | 260 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 07 | standard nonelectric | 169 ft | 38 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 08 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 53 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 09 | standard nonelectric | 147 ft | 340 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 10 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 359 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 11 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 431 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 12 | standard nonelectric | 218 ft | 575 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 13 | standard nonelectric | 748 ft | 967 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 14 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 434 ft | $10 |
| Beth Lake | 15 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 355 ft | $10 |
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 phone number
Where it is
Lost Lake Group UnitOkanogan National Forest · 3.1 miLost Lake Campground (WA)Okanogan National Forest · 3.3 mi
Bonaparte Lake CampgroundOkanogan National Forest · 5.6 miLambert Creek Horse CampColville National Forest · 23 miOld Stage Horse CampColville National Forest · 23 mi
Swan Lake KitchenColville National Forest · 24 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Curlew Lake, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 16°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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Beth Lake Campground is in Washington’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Dan Newhouse (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →