Canyon Creek Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 9 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- Season
- – October 27Closes October 27. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This pack it in/pack it out campground is a single large circular loop .25 miles from the highway on a dirt road with minimal traffic noise. A few campsites are adjacent to canyon creek which is hidden from view. Convenient for overnight campers it is also a nice location for a few days of relaxed camping. A one mile paved walking trail with three benches traverses along Sherman Creek between the campground and the Sherman Pass Log Flume Heritage Site.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 38 km away
- Patchy color
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.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
“Camping: $6/single site Extra Vehicle: $2/per night” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Haag Cove Campground3.9 miLake Ellen East CampgroundColville National Forest · 5.2 miLake Ellen West CampgroundColville National Forest · 5.7 mi
Kettle Falls CampgroundLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 5.7 mi
Kettle Falls Locust Grove Group SiteLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 5.8 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Barney's Junction, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 61°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Canyon Creek Campground is in Washington’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Michael Baumgartner (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →