Cougar Flat
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 12All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cougar Flat Campground is nestled into a mountain forest northwest of Naches, Washington. The campground offers an ideal setting for families and outdoor enthusiasts looking for a secluded camping experience in the beautiful Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to being a prime location for hiking, fishing, hunting, horseback riding and mountain biking in summer and early fall, Cougar Flat offers excellent skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling in the winter months. Nearby Bumping Lake offers visitors opportunities to boat, fish, swim or simply relax on its sandy beach. The campground is a great base camp for day-hikers and overnight backpackers. Several access trails from the area give hikers the chance to create their own excursions. The American Ridge Trail is a popular among hikers and equestrians, meandering through more than 26 miles of towering forests, mountain meadows and high elevation lakes from the Bumping River to Pacific Crest Trail. Nature lovers may also want to explore the nearby Goose Prairie Trail.
Facilities
Adjacent to the Bumping River, this campground offers eight standard sites, and four walk-in, tent only sites. Sites are equipped with picnic tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are also available. A boat ramp is located at the nearby Bumping Lake campground Natural Features Encompassing more than 4 million acres and stretching north to south from the Canadian border to the Goat Rocks Wilderness, the Okanogan National Forest offers countless recreation opportunities. Visitors are afforded stunning scenic views, with high, glaciated alpine peaks, valleys of old growth forest and rugged shrub-steppe country making up the diverse landscape. Elevations range from below 1,000 feet to more than 9,000 feet. The surrounding undeveloped wilderness, clean streams and diverse forests support an abundance of wildlife, including 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. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (661) 702-1420 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
In the fall, thousands of visitors come to experience white water rafting on both the Tieton and American Rivers. Visitors enjoy the Mt. Rainer National Park, where interpretive programs and exhibits offer education about the diverse landscape and history of the area. The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), one of the world's premier National Scenic Trails, showcases some of North America's most fantastic scenery, winding its way its way from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington, and is accessible near the campground.
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
No TRASH SERVICE will be available this season. Please "PACK IT IN - PACK IT OUT"
Check in: 2 pm, Check out: 12 pm (noon)
Click here for more information about Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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.
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!
Firewood is available at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12 · 4 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are also available. A boat ramp…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are also available. A boat ramp is located at the…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 247th 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 · 13
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicle Fee $11.00” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 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
12 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 12 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. 12 of the 12 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.
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 001 | walk to | 85 ft | 535 ft | $22 | |
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 002 | walk to | 85 ft | 470 ft | $22 | |
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 003 | walk to | 108 ft | 441 ft | $22 | |
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 004 | walk to | 48 ft | 361 ft | $22 | |
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 005 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 48 ft | 368 ft | $22 |
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 006 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 61 ft | 265 ft | $22 |
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 007 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 61 ft | 282 ft | $22 |
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 186 ft | $22 |
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 009 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 152 ft | 74 ft | $22 |
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 010 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 135 ft | 85 ft | $22 |
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 135 ft | 218 ft | $22 |
| AREA COUGAR FLAT | 012 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 114 ft | 206 ft | $22 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Soda Springs Campground (Bumping River, WA)Snoqualmie National Forest · 1.1 mi
Hells Crossing CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 3.6 mi
Salmon Cove Group SiteSnoqualmie National Forest · 3.7 mi
Pine Needle Group SiteSnoqualmie National Forest · 3.8 miSalmon Cove Group CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 3.9 mi
Pleasant Valley CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 4.7 miFrom Naches, take Highway 410 to milepost 88.4, then turn left on Bumping Lake Road and continue for 6 miles.
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 38°F, day 49°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 24°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
Cougar Flat 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 →