U.S. Forest Service · Mt. Baker National Forest · WA
Coal Creek Group Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 37 mi
Wildfire
Sisi fire · 37 mi away · 4,615 acres · 34% contained · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Three Queens fire · 48 mi away · 9,575 acres · 33% contained · updated Sep 29, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 14, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
Photos · USDA Forest Service
1,620 ftElevation
115 ftWater · Coal CreekEstuary · 28.3 mi · to Puget Sound
10.9 miSE of Darrington, WA
69%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 351st darkest of 400 in WA
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This campground is situated along the South Fork Stillaguamish River. This campground is a sandy, ideal place for children.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
Source: Stated in the agency description
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
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.
View Recreation.gov for Fee Information and for open season dates.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
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
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near hereBeaver Creek Group CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 0.7 mi
Coal Creek Group CampMt. Baker National Forest · 0.8 mi
Tulalip Mill Site Group CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 4.4 mi
Red Bridge CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 5.2 mi
Boardman Group CampMt. Baker National Forest · 6.4 mi
Bedal CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 7.1 mi
Coal Creek Group CampMt. Baker National Forest · 0.8 miTulalip Mill Site Group CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 4.4 miRed Bridge CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 5.2 miBoardman Group CampMt. Baker National Forest · 6.4 miBedal CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 7.1 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight44°Rain99% rain
Saturday51°Rain then Partly Sunny76% rain
Saturday Night34°Partly Cloudy
Sunday53°Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Verlot, WA
Source: National Weather Service, SEW forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 32°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
90°32°20°
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: BARING, WA (USC00450456), 22 miles away and 850 ft lower
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.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Coal Creek Group Campground is in Washington’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Kim Schrier (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →
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.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
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: Verlot, WA, 6.9 mi E (a census designated place). Straight line.