U.S. Forest Service · Olympic National Forest · WA

Brown Creek Campground

First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
Drawn from the record · 570 ft · 79% tree cover · Brown Creek within reach · Bortle 4 sky
570 ftElevation
167 ftWater · Brown CreekEstuary · 8.0 mi · to Hood Canal
14.7 miNW of Shelton, WA
79%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 359th darkest of 400 in WA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Brown Creek Campground is 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. There are 20 campsites in Brown Creek Campground: twelve will accommodate trailers and RVs and eight of the sites are suitable for tents. There is one ADA accessible campsite. Six sites at Brown Creek Campground along forest Road 2430 are open year-round. There is also an accessible vault toilet also open year-round nearby at Brown Creek Trailhead. The family friendly Brown Creek Nature Loop Trail #877 can be accessed from within the campground. There are accessible vault toilets and potable water within the main campground during the season. View a Map of Recreation Opportunities Near Brown Creek Campground.

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…year-round. There is also an accessible vault toilet also open year-round nearby at Brown Creek…”
Drinking water
Yes
“…There are accessible vault toilets and potable water within the main campground during the season. View…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
River, Creek
Wildlife viewing
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe agency’s record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4

rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today70°Mostly Sunny1% rain
Tonight49°Light Rain Likely57% rain
Saturday60°Mostly Sunny14% rain
Saturday Night41°Partly Cloudy4% rain

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.

80°30°

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.

Measured at: CUSHMAN POWERHOUSE #2, WA (USC00451939), 8 miles away and 549 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Lightning7,179 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Upper Skokomish9,311 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Jefferson Ridge6,512 acres · 10 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Emily Randall, official portrait

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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Hoodsport, WA, 6.9 mi W (a census designated place). Straight line.