Denny Creek Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 9 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $38–$80Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4332 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Situated near the south fork of the Snoqualmie River in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Denny Creek Campground offers visitors stunning scenery and easy access to an abundance of recreational activities in the Northern Cascade Range. Campsites sit beneath a canopy of forest, and a few are sprinkled at the banks of Lodge Creek, which flows into the Snoqualmie. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to being a prime location for hiking, fishing, picnicking and horseback riding in summer and early fall, Denny Creek offers excellent skiing and snowshoeing in the winter months. The Asahel Curtis Nature Trail, named for one of Washington's most renowned nature photographers, is located nearby. This trail is a short, easy walk through one of the last remaining stands of old growth forest in the Snoqualmie Valley. The trail crosses Humpback Creek several times before rising gently into a grove of mature Douglas-fir, western hemlock and western red cedar. Mosses, ferns, orchids and a large variety of other wildflowers abound on the forest floor.
Facilities
Denny Creek Campground offers 24 reservable campsites, including one group site. Picnic tables, food storage lockers, flush toilets and drinking water are also available, as well as electrical hook-ups at a handful of sites.
Natural Features
Hemmed in by several designated wilderness areas, this national forest showcases rugged peaks, sparkling alpine lakes and old-growth forests, providing visitors with a variety of scenic landscapes. On a clear day visitors can spot Mt. Baker, the most prominent feature of the Mt. Baker Wilderness Area. Rising to an elevation of 10,781 feet, this active volcano is perpetually snow-capped and mantled with an extensive network of creeping glaciers. Mt. Baker's summit, Grant Peak, is actually a 1,300-foot-deep mound of ice, which hides a massive volcanic crater. Wildlife in the area include mountain goats, coyotes, pine marten and a variety of migratory birds and native fish. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 932-0242.
Nearby Attractions
Denny Creek Road, a historic wagon route used by early settlers to cross Snoqualmie Pass, can be accessed from milepost 47. The Verlot Public Service Center, near the South Fork Stillaguamish River, was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1933 to 1942. Verlot`s handsome buildings reflect the architectural style and fine craftsmanship of the era and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
Extra Vehicles: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per single tent site. Two RVs with tow vehicle per double site or two vehicles per double tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. A fee of $12/extra vehicle per night must be paid for upon arrival by cash or check only.
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site may be forfeited and released to other guests.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
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.
The Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest has a Food Storage Order in effect. All food and refuse must be acceptably stored (in a hard sided vehicle or trailer, food storage locker, or certified bear resistant container) or acceptably possessed (attended to by a person who is physically present).
Click here for more information about Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 43 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 10 electric
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- 24 of 43
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…Picnic tables, food storage lockers, flush toilets and drinking water are also available, as well as…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…food storage lockers, flush toilets and drinking water are also available, as well as electrical hook-ups…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 370th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 39 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 32 of the 43 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 18
What you actually pay
“A fee of $12/extra vehicle per night must be paid for upon arrival by cash or check only.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $38–$80 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.
“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · this campground’s own 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
43 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 22 mapped sitesAll 43 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 24 of the 43 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 43 of the 43 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA DENNY CREEK | 002 | type not stated | $70 | ||||||
| AREA DENNY CREEK | 004 | type not stated | $70 | ||||||
| AREA DENNY CREEK | 008 | type not stated | $70 | ||||||
| AREA DENNY CREEK | 013 | type not stated | $70 | ||||||
| AREA DENNY CREEK | 014 | type not stated | $70 | ||||||
| AREA DENNY CREEK | 015 | type not stated | $70 | ||||||
| DENN | 007 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $38–$80 | |||||
| DENN | 008/010 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $38–$80 | |||||
| DENN | 009 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $38–$80 | |||||
| DENN | 010 | type not stated | 40 ft | 64 ft | 307 ft | $70 | |||
| DENN | 011 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $38–$80 | |||||
| DENN | 012 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 266 ft | 75 ft | 205 ft | $38–$80 | |
| DENN | 013 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $38–$80 | |||||
| DENN | 014 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $38–$80 | |||||
| DENN | 015 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $38–$80 | |||||
| DENN | 016 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 119 ft | 192 ft | 237 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 017 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 81 ft | 247 ft | 132 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 018 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 81 ft | 257 ft | 203 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 115 ft | 123 ft | 325 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 020 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 105 ft | 178 ft | 320 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 105 ft | 75 ft | 401 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 022 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 113 ft | 101 ft | 470 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 023 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 101 ft | 142 ftLodge Creek | 388 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 024 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 116 ft | 142 ftLodge Creek | 381 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 025 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 101 ft | 196 ftLodge Creek | 307 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 026 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 131 ft | 289 ftLodge Creek | 240 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 027 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $38–$80 | |||||
| DENN | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 96 ft | 278 ftLodge Creek | 331 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| DENN | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 96 ft | 443 ft | 228 ft | $38–$80 | ||
| ELEC | 001 | type not stated | 40 ft | 15 amp | 337 ftLodge Creek | 473 ft | $70 | ||
| ELEC | 002 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | $54 | ||||
| ELEC | 003 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 180 ft | 539 ftLodge Creek | 319 ft | $54 | |
| ELEC | 004 | standard electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | $54 | ||||
| ELEC | 005 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 374 ft | 170 ft | $54 | |
| ELEC | 006 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 98 ft | 351 ft | 116 ft | $54 | |
| ELEC | 029 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 96 ft | 352 ftLodge Creek | 320 ft | $54 | |
| ELEC | 031 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20 amp | 89 ft | 430 ft | 261 ft | $54 | |
| ELEC | 032 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20 amp | yes | 83 ft | 342 ft | 199 ft | $54 |
| ELEC | 033 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20 amp | yes | 83 ft | 269 ft | 135 ft | $54 |
| ELEC | 034 GROUP | group standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 268 ft | 124 ft | 109 ft | $140 | |
| XMulti | 007 | type not stated | $70 | ||||||
| XMulti | 009 | type not stated | $70 | ||||||
| XMulti | 011 | type not stated | $70 |
25 of 43 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Tinkham CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 5.9 mi
KachessWenatchee National Forest · 10 mi
Middle Fork CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 11 mi
East Kachess Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 12 miEast Kachess Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 12 miOwhi CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 13 miFrom Seattle, take Interstate 90 east to exit 47. Go north over the freeway and follow signs 3 miles to campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Snoqualmie Pass, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 31°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Denny Creek 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 →