Cultus Creek CG (WA) Gifford Pinchot NF
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 21 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $5–$15Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 21 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Campsites may not be reserved in advance. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Visitors can pay by cash on site, or by using Scan and Pay. Download the Recreation.gov mobile app before you arrive at the campground, and pay through your phone using the Scan and Pay QR code which is located on site. Keep reading
Recreation
The trailhead for Indian Heaven Trail #33, a popular and challenging trail into the wilderness, is located in the campground. Cultus Creek Trail #108 is also located near the campground.
Natural Features
Cultus Creek Campground is located in a pristine wooded setting on the boundary of Indian Heaven wilderness. The campground is near tradition huckleberry picking fields which make it quite popular in huckleberry season. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (509) 395-3400.
What the agency tells you
There is no electricity at the campground and cell phone reception is poor.
There are no hookups.
Maximum vehicle length is 32 feet.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
A valid Recreation Pass is required at Cultus Creek/Indian Heaven trailheads. This $5 fee is separate from the campground fee. Valid recreation passes include: $5 day use fee, Northwest Forest Annual pass, and any of the Interagency Passes. These passes are NOT applicable at the campground.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 2
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 22 km away
- Patchy color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:40 UTC
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 2 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $5–$15 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
2 sites
All 2 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. 1 of the 2 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Scan and Pay | ExtraVehicle | type not stated | |
| Scan and Pay | Standard | standard nonelectric | $5–$15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cultus Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 0.0 mi
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Forlorn Lakes CG (WA) Gifford Pinchot NFGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.7 mi
Goose Lake CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.7 miFrom Trout Lake, Washington drive west on Highway 141. At the forest boundary Highway 141 becomes Forest Road 24. Continue west on Forest Road 24 past Peterson Prairie Campground to the intersection with Forest Road 60. At the intersection turn right to stay on Forest Road 24 and continue north to Cultus Creek Campground, at approximately 9 miles past the intersection with Forest Road 60.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Trout Lake, WA
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Cultus Creek CG (WA) Gifford Pinchot NF is in Washington’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →