Big Creek Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $20From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Campsites will accommodate tents, trailers, and RVs. The 64 camp units are spaced for privacy in a second-growth forested area. Big Creek, a small stream, is adjacent to the campground. Fires in developed campsites only. Click here to view a map of the campground. Three covered picnic shelters are available for group-day use only. Hiking, mountain climbing, fishing, swimming, and exceptional scenery can be enjoyed in the area. Lake Cushman and the Staircase entrance to Olympic National Park are nearby with a public boat ramp available in vicinity. A trailhead within the campground accesses Big Creek Campground Trail #827 - a gentle loop around Big Creek Campground, and Upper Big Creek Loop #827.1 a longer loop trail which also links up to the Mt Ellinor Connector Trail #827.2 north of the campground.
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $20 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
“$20/Night for single unit (50% reduced fee with Golden Age/Access & Interagency Senior/Access passes.) $5/Extra passenger vehicle (over 2).” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($20), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 6
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Staircase CampgroundOlympic National Park · 5.8 miBrown Creek CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 7.5 miLena Creek CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 7.9 mi
Hamma Hamma CabinOlympic National Forest · 8.2 miHamma Hamma CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 8.2 mi
Lena Lake CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 9.4 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hoodsport, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 44°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Big Creek Campground is in Washington’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Emily Randall (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →