U.S. Forest Service · Colville National Forest · WA
Davis Lake Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 11 mi
Wildfire
Hill Loop fire · 11 mi away · 127 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 9, 2026
Wildfire
Bradeen Hill fire · 30 mi away · 4,417 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 8, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 13, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- Season
- – September 30Closes September 30. No opening date published.
Photos · USDA Forest Service.
4,490 ftElevation
428 ftWater · Davis Lake
11.2 miNW of Kettle Falls, WA
35%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 89th darkest of 400 in WA
Closes September 30. No opening date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This small rustic campground provides beautiful views of Davis Lake from each campsite. There is a single lane dirt road which serves as access to the campsites and the small boat launch. Boating is noncombustible motors only and the cutthroat trout fishing is fantastic. In addition there is a 1.2 mile hiking trail # 92 will take you around Davis lake.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 21 km away
- Patchy color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (21 km) · Oct 10, 2026
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.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3
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.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
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
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today55°Mostly Sunny
Tonight40°Mostly Cloudy1% rain
Saturday53°Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers4% rain
Saturday Night33°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Boyds, WA
Source: National Weather Service, OTX forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
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
Davis Lake 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls outside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
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
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 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
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (21 km) · Oct 10, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported patchy color · Oct 10, 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: Boyds, WA, 4.2 mi WNW (a census designated place). Straight line.