Bumping Lake Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 21 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24–$48Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 62All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bumping Lake Campground sits just off the forested shore of Bumping Lake. It is in the Cascade Mountains east of Mount Rainier National Park and about 45 miles northwest of Naches, Washington. Fantastic peaks, high-country lakes and old-growth forests provide visitors with unique and surprising landscapes, making the campground an ideal setting for both individual and family camping excursions. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to being a prime location for hiking, boating, fishing, hunting, horseback riding and mountain biking in summer and early fall, visitors can take advantage of skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling in the winter months. Bumping Lake is a popular destination for boating, water skiing, fishing and swimming. A boat ramp is located in the lower section of the campground. The American Ridge Trail is a popular among hikers and equestrians, meandering through more than 26 miles of towering forests, mountain meadows and past high elevation lakes from the Bumping River to the Pacific Crest Trail.
Facilities
This campground has an upper and lower section, offering sites that accommodate both tent and RV camping. Each site is equipped with a table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but no hookups are available.
Natural Features
Bumping Lake was created naturally by glaciers and is fed by snowmelt. It is surrounded by rugged mountain terrain, wetlands and old-growth conifer forests. The area supports wildlife such as deer, porcupine, native fish and migratory birds. Endangered and threatened species, including the Northern Bald Eagle, the Northern Spotted Owl, gray wolves and grizzly bears also find havens in nearby ecosystems.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors enjoy making a day trip to nearby Mount Rainer National Park, which offers sublime views of glaciers, subalpine ecology and volcanic landscapes. Hikers may want to traverse a portion of the spectacular Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), one of the world's premier National Scenic Trails. This trail showcases some of North America's most fantastic scenery as it winds its way from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (661) 702-1420 for general information.
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. 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
Water is available in this location via a handpump and/or water spigot. Please DO NOT attach your RV hoses to the water systems we provide. These are made available to you to fill your water jugs/buckets and take back to your site to use. If you need to fill your RV water tanks, please fill your tank before you come to the campground. Thank you! Water is available at the Lower campground's handpump.
Check in: 2 pm, Check out: 12 pm (noon)
Single site fees include 1 vehicle and 1 legally towed vehicle. Any additional vehicles are subject to an extra vehicle fee on-site, space permitting. Extra vehicle fees are half the single site price.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Click here for more information about Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
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.
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Note on campsite #10: This campsite has a major usage trail to the lake next to it. If you camp here, please do not block access to this trail.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 62 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 154 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 62
- Accessible sites
- 7
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…a table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but no hookups are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…ring with grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but no hookups are available. Natural…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Water sports
- Night sky · 223rd darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 16
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, $24–$48 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
62 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 57 mapped sitesAll 62 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. 62 of the 62 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.
| LOBL | 046 | standard nonelectric | 107 ft | 120 ft | 625 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 047 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 83 ft | 517 ft | $24–$48 |
| LOBL | 048 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 104 ft | 628 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 049 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 83 ft | 552 ft | $24–$48 |
| LOBL | 050 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24–$48 | |||
| LOBL | 051 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 135 ft | 571 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 052 | standard nonelectric | 154 ft | 148 ft | 617 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 053 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | $24–$48 | ||
| LOBL | 054 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 158 ft | 454 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 055 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24–$48 | |||
| LOBL | 056 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 158 ft | 367 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 057 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 115 ft | 437 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 058 | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 115 ft | 326 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 059 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 130 ft | 366 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 060 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 155 ft | 358 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 061 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 165 ft | 735 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 062 | standard nonelectric | 126 ft | 88 ft | 836 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 063 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 88 ft | 791 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 064 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 125 ft | 922 ft | $24–$48 | |
| LOBL | 065 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 125 ft | 869 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 001 | tent only nonelectric | 97 ft | 491 ft | $27 | ||
| UPBL | 002 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 97 ft | 427 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $24–$48 | |||
| UPBL | 004 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 89 ft | 357 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 005 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | 120 ft | 305 ft | $24–$48 |
| UPBL | 006 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 89 ft | 284 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 007 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 117 ft | 224 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 008 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 74 ft | 133 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 009 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 74 ft | 130 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 010 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 195 ft | 70 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 011 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | yes | 135 ft | 264 ft | $24–$48 |
| UPBL | 012 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 111 ft | 265 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 013 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 105 ft | 188 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 014 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 99 ft | 257 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 015 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 86 ft | 313 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 016 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 99 ft | 341 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 366 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 018 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 83 ft | 435 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 019 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 100 ft | 503 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 020 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | yes | 139 ft | 603 ft | $24–$48 |
| UPBL | 021 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 100 ft | 417 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 022 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | yes | 115 ft | 465 ft | $24–$48 |
| UPBL | 023 | standard nonelectric | $24–$48 | ||||
| UPBL | 024 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 91 ft | 373 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 025 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 295 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 029 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 109 ft | 280 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 314 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 031 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 92 ft | 345 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 032 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 98 ft | 361 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 033 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 84 ft | 364 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 034 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 394 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 035 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 72 ft | 479 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 036 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 69 ft | 547 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 037 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 69 ft | 612 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 038 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 75 ft | 650 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 039 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 101 ft | 679 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 040 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 112 ft | 623 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 041 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 107 ft | 526 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 042 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 107 ft | 431 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 043 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 172 ft | 136 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 044 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 127 ft | 160 ft | $24–$48 | |
| UPBL | 045 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 127 ft | 143 ft | $24–$48 |
25 of 62 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cougar FlatSnoqualmie National Forest · 5.4 mi
Lodgepole Campground (Washington)Snoqualmie National Forest · 5.6 mi
Pleasant Valley CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 6.1 mi
Soda Springs Campground (Bumping River, WA)Snoqualmie National Forest · 6.5 miSalmon Cove Group CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 6.7 mi
Salmon Cove Group SiteSnoqualmie National Forest · 7.4 miFrom Yakima, travel 25 miles on Highway 12 to the junction with Highway 410. Travel 29 miles on Highway 410 (Chinook Pass Highway) to milepost 88.4. Take Forest Road 18 (Bumping River Road) for 11.7 miles to campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cliffdell, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 25°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
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
Bumping 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 →