National Park Service · Olympic National Park · WA
Deer Park Campground
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Caution
Staircase Developed Area is Open, Use Caution in Burned Areas The Staircase developed area is open. The surrounding wilderness areas will remain closed as repair and recovery efforts continue. Use extreme caution when entering burned areas. Burned landscapes may contain falling trees and branches…
Park Closure
Highway 101 Overnight Closures at Hoh River Bridge, October 13-19 These overnight Highway 101 closures cuts off the only direct route between some of the most popular areas of the park. There are no detours available. Taking alternate routes around the east side of the Olympic Peninsula will add at least…
Danger
Bat Tests Positive for Rabies, Visitors Urged to Report Potential Contact A rabid bat was found at Olympic National Park near Staircase Bridge on August 9th. At approximately 2 p.m., the bat swooped down onto an unidentified woman and was temporarily caught in her hair. This individual is at risk for rabies and…
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: all 14 sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 1414 of them walk-up
Photos · NPS Photo / B Fluckiger
5,410 ftElevation
877 ftWater · an unnamed streamOcean · 11.5 mi · to Puget Sound
9.5 miSW of Sequim, WA
14Walk-up sites
0%Tree cover
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
At 5,400 feet in elevation, Deer Park boasts mountain views and starry skies. With a steep and winding gravel access road, Deer Park is not RV accessible.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
Source: National Park Service and agency records
Around the campground
- Night sky · 358th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park 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: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate47.94876, -123.26007
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The phone(360) 565-3130
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near here
Dungeness Forks CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 7.1 mi
Louella CabinOlympic National Forest · 8.7 mi
Heart O' the Hills CampgroundOlympic National Park · 9.9 mi
Falls View CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 19 mi
Mora CampgroundOlympic National Park · 21 mi
Collins CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 22 mi
Dungeness Forks CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 7.1 miLouella CabinOlympic National Forest · 8.7 miHeart O' the Hills CampgroundOlympic National Park · 9.9 miFalls View CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 19 miMora CampgroundOlympic National Park · 21 miCollins CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 22 miSource: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight39°Chance Light Rain then Chance Rain And Snow45% rain
Saturday44°Chance Rain And Snow then Mostly Sunny29% rain
Saturday Night30°Mostly Clear1% rain
Sunday39°Partly Sunny
NWS forecast for Sequim, WA
Source: National Weather Service, SEW forecast office · Oct 17, 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
Deer Park Campground is in Washington’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Emily Randall (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: National Park Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
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 Park 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.