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

Campbell Tree Grove 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
A night
FreeNo camping fee
1,090 ftElevation
430 ftWater · an unnamed streamEstuary · 25.8 mi · to Hood Canal
30.2 miNW of Shelton, WA
73%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 188th darkest of 400 in WA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Campbell Tree Grove Campground is located adjacent to the West Fork Humptulips River in the beautiful temperate rain forest. The Campbell Tree Grove encompasses an impressive stand of old growth which illuminate this distinctive and vital wild area. Access to the West Fork Humptulips Trail #806 along the river adjacent to the campground.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
River
Source: Stated in the agency description

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. 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 record
A nightFreeNo camping feethe agency’s fee record
A weekendNothingDerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
Camping feeFree
No Fee
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
A night, and a whole weekendDerivedNothing

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, 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 · 5
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 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

Overnight48°Chance Light Rain25% rain
Saturday53°Slight Chance Light Rain then Mostly Sunny23% rain
Saturday Night39°Mostly Clear1% rain
Sunday52°Partly Sunny

NWS forecast for Neilton, WA

Typical weather

Typical October night 43°F, day 59°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December 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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: QUINAULT 4 NE, WA (USW00004237), 6 miles away and 804 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
Moonlight Dome4,919 acres · 2 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
South Quinault11,081 acres · 5 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

Campbell Tree Grove 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: Neilton, WA, 8.2 mi ENE (a census designated place). Straight line.