Charbonneau Park and Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 15 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $26–$35Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 52All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Charbonneau Park in Eastern Washington was named one of America's Top 100 Family Campgrounds. It is located on Lake Sacajawea, formed by Ice Harbor Lock and Dam on the Lower Snake River. The park was named for Toussaint Charbonneau, an interpreter for Lewis and Clark and husband of Sacajawea, the famous Shoshone interpreter on the Corps of Discovery. The park provides excellent recreational opportunities for boaters, campers, upland and waterfowl hunters and anglers. Keep reading
Recreation
The lake provides great boating and swimming opportunities, and a boat ramp is provided for guests. Fishing is also a popular pastime, and anglers will find excellent salmon and steelhead fishing on the lake.
Facilities
The park offers 52 family sites and two day-use group picnic shelters, all with electric hookups.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the banks of Lake Sacajawea, and several of its waterfront sites have scenic views of the lake. The park is characterized by its open grassy areas dotted with a few large shade trees. Contact Info For local information, please call (509) 547-2048 or call (877) 444-6777 for general information.
What the agency tells you
No overflow camping available
Alcoholic beverages prohibited
Park gate closed and quiet hours from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
Motorized/battery operated scooters and toy cars prohibited
Pets must be restrained on a 6 foot leash at all times
Check-out time is 12:00 p.m. (no exceptions)
Check-in time is after 2 p.m. (no exceptions)
All campers must stop and check-in at gate house before proceeding into the campground
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Campfires allowed UNLESS FIRE BAN is in effect
All wheels on pavement at all times
When hanging hammocks on trees must use 3 inch flat strap (webbing)
NO Dog Runs
An adult must be present at campsite for group members 17 and under
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 52
- Hookups
- 52 electric, 15 water, 15 sewer
- Longest rig
- 142 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 392nd darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $26–$35 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.
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
54 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 54 mapped sitesAll 54 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 52 of the 54 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Campground | 03 | standard electric | 58 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 54 ft | 116 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 04 | standard electric | 50 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 54 ft | 109 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 05 | standard electric | 134 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 115 ft | 254 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 06 | standard electric | 68 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 73 ft | 219 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 07 | standard electric | 120 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 114 ft | 670 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 08 | standard electric | 70 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 51 ft | 547 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 09 | standard electric | 130 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 109 ft | 605 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 10 | standard electric | 126 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 95 ft | 533 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 11 | standard electric | 91 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 51 ft | 591 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 12 | standard electric | 122 ft | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 88 ft | 471 ft | $26–$35 |
| Campground | 13 | standard electric | 67 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 88 ft | 518 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 14 | standard electric | 74 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 55 ft | 456 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 15 | standard electric | 73 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 55 ft | 440 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 16 | standard electric | 122 ft | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 101 ft | 302 ft | $26–$35 |
| Campground | 17 | standard electric | 56 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 86 ft | 402 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 18 | standard electric | 43 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 67 ft | 351 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 19 | standard electric | 119 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 63 ft | 261 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 20 | standard electric | 56 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 322 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 21 | standard electric | 80 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 286 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 22 | standard electric | 65 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 68 ft | 219 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 23 | standard electric | 115 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 109 ft | 496 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 24 | standard electric | 142 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 95 ft | 347 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 25 | standard electric | 57 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 65 ft | 427 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 26 | standard electric | 59 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 65 ft | 362 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 27 | standard electric | 120 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 101 ft | 214 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 28 | standard electric | 55 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 66 ft | 291 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 29 | standard electric | 51 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 53 ft | 245 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 30 | standard electric | 63 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 139 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 31 | standard electric | 60 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 50 ft | 217 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 32 | standard electric | 130 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 134 ft | 71 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 33 | standard electric | 67 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 50 ft | 212 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 34 | standard electric | 99 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 107 ft | 78 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 35 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 188 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 36 | standard electric | 65 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 48 ft | 201 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 37 | standard electric | 110 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 107 ft | 78 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 38 | standard electric | 74 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 69 ft | 191 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 39 | standard electric | 85 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 120 ft | 84 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 40 | standard electric | 68 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 50 ft | 207 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 41 | standard electric | 64 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 50 ft | 203 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 42 | standard electric | 113 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 99 ft | 96 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 43 | standard electric | 69 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 72 ft | 205 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 44 | standard electric | 76 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 72 ft | 205 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 45 | standard electric | 73 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 99 ft | 88 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 46 | standard electric | 107 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 122 ft | 122 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 47 | standard electric | 106 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 115 ft | 76 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 48 | standard electric | 103 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 92 ft | 97 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 49 | standard electric | 56 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 70 ft | 165 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 50 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 150 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 51 | standard electric | 47 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 73 ft | 53 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 52 | standard electric | 45 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 65 ft | 133 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 53 | standard electric | 46 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 73 ft | 51 ft | $26–$35 | |
| Campground | 54 | standard electric | 49 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 73 ft | 157 ft | $26–$35 | |
| DAY USE | Group Shelter (Day Use) | day use | 30 amp | yes | 1261 ft | 110 ft | $110 | |
| OVERLOOK | Group Shelter (Overlook) | day use | 30 amp | yes | 1005 ft | 559 ft | $110 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 54 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Fishhook Park5.6 mi
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Plymouth Park33 miFrom Pasco, Washington, take Highway 12 east. After crossing the Snake River Bridge, take the first exit and proceed to Highway 124. Continue east through Burbank, Washington. Turn north on Sun Harbor Drive and follow for 1.5 miles, then take a left on Charbonneau Road. Campground is on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Burbank, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Charbonneau Park and 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 →