Brown Creek Campground
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 14:29 UTC
- A night
- $14When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 20In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Brown Creek Campground iis located along the shore of the South Fork Skokomish River at the confluence with Brown Creek. Evergreen conifers and hardwoods provide lots of shade at this campground. Campsites at this location is available on a first-come, first-served basis, and visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Once on-site, you are able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Scan & Pay feature on the Recreation.gov mobile app. Please download the free Recreation.gov mobile app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Adding a payment method to the app before arrival is recommended as well. Keep reading
Recreation
Brown Creek Nature Loop Trail: a 0.8 mile loop around around a beaver pond and is a great wildlife viewing area. The trail has an easy grade along the south half, leaving from the Interpretive Trailhead. There are steeper grades along the north half. This trail is accessible directly from the campground. Lower South Fork Skokomish Trail: Trail leads through old growth forest paralleling the South Fork Skokomish River. Good trail for mountain bikes, horses, and fishing in the nearby river. Points of interest include the old LeBar Claim and Church Creek Shelter. This trail is gradual to moderate and travels 10.3 miles. This trail is located 1 mile north of the campground. Spider Lake Trail: Hike through old growth forest around serene Spider Lake. This 1.9 mile loop trail is a level grade and gets yearly mainenance. Enter trail from either the North or South end of lake. The trail and lake might not be signed, look for Spider Lake below Forest Service Road #23 on the east side of the road. This trail is located 8 miles west of the campground on FS23 road.
Facilities
There are 20 campsites in Brown Creek Campground: twelve will accommodate trailers and RVs (No Hookups available) and eight of the sites are suitable for tents. There is one ADA accessible campsite. The campground has potable water. There are 3 double vault toilets.
Natural Features
The South Fork Skokomish River and Brown Creek border the campground. Brown Creek Pond is also adjacent.
Nearby Attractions
Many trails are accessible in the area. Visitors frequent the High Steel Bridge. Olympic National Park can be accessed through the Upper South Fork Skokomish Trail. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (360) 765-2200. Charges & Cancellations
What the agency tells you
Most campsites can only accomodate 1 vehicle, no other parking within campground. Please keep this in mind while planning and book campsites accordingly. In the case of motorcycles, the first two are considered to be one vehicle and the third and fourth are also considered to be one vehicle. No additional vehicle fees are collected for bicycles.
Bears and other animals frequent the area; use appropriate food storage containers.
Pets must be on a leash 6' or less in length and under control within the campground and developed recreation sites.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Off-road vehicles are prohibited in the Olympic National Forest.
Chainsaw use and hunting are prohibited in the area's developed recreation sites.
Secure your items and valuables, even at night! Theft has been reported in area.
During the off-season potable water is not available.
Maximum stay is 14 days.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…has potable water. There are 3 double vault toilets. Natural Features The South Fork Skokomish River…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…accessible campsite. The campground has potable water. There are 3 double vault toilets. Natural Features…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Birding
- Hiking
- Mountain biking
Nothing to book until it reopensread 14:29 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Brown Creek Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Graves Creek CampgroundOlympic National Park · 7.8 mi · walk-up · 30 sites
- North Fork CampgroundOlympic National Park · 9.4 mi · walk-up · 9 sites
- Mora CampgroundOlympic National Park · 10 mi · 93 sites
- Queets CampgroundOlympic National Park · 23 mi · walk-up · 20 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 14:29 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites
All 20 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. 20 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Brown Creek | 1 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 10 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 11 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 12 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 13 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 14 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 15 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 16 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 17 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 18 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 19 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 2 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 20 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 3 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 4 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 5 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 6 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 7 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 8 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
| Brown Creek | 9 | standard nonelectric | $14 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Collins CampgroundOlympic National Park · 0.0 mi
Dungeness Forks CampgroundOlympic National Park · 0.0 mi
Falls View CampgroundOlympic National Park · 0.0 mi
Lebar Horse CampOlympic National Park · 0.0 mi
Littleton Horse CampOlympic National Park · 0.0 mi
Graves Creek CampgroundOlympic National Park · 7.8 miFrom Shelton,WA take US Highway 101 for 6 miles north. Then turn west onto the Skokomish Valley Road. Follow Skokomish Valley Road for about 8 miles to the forest boundary. Continue on Forest Road 23 for about another 5 miles to Forest Service Road 2353. Turn right and drive approximately ¾ mile to the South Fork Skokomish River Bridge. Cross the bridge and make a sharp turn to the right onto Forest Service Road 2340. Brown Creek Campground is located ¼ mile beyond this point.
The agency publishes this point for 6 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Amanda Park, WA
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Brown 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 →