East Sullivan
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 30 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $31–$62Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 46All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
East Sullivan Campground is located at the north end of Sullivan Lake about five miles east of Metaline Falls, Washington. The campground provides a unique environment where campers can enjoy many recreational opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
The Sullivan Lake Basin provides campers with opportunities for swimming, biking, fishing, boating and hiking. Canoeing , kayaking, paddle boarding and power boating are among the water sports popular on the lake. Campers can walk directly from their campsite to a short nature trail, as well as the Lakeshore Trail, a National Scenic Trail that runs along the eastern shore of the lake. This 4.2 mile trail offers viewpoint of the lake and is a popular day-hike for all ages. Biking along local trails and roads is also popular. Common fish species include burbot and Kokanee salmon. Fishing in this deep mountain lake is most successful from a boat.
Facilities
Campsites do not have a view of the lake, but they are all a short walk away. Along the lake is a day-use area, walking trail, boat ramp, picnic tables and swimming area. The group campground is located near the boat ramp and can accommodate up to 40 people. A small airstrip adjacent to the campground is used by some campers who fly in with their small aircraft, or via a chartered plane.
Natural Features
Sullivan Lake covers 1291 acres and has a depth of 320 feet. Hall Mountain rises abruptly from the eastern shore of the lake to a height of over 6000 feet. The densely wooded nature of the campground provides privacy at each campsite, and plenty of shade for warm summer days. Wildlife such as elk, moose, white-tailed deer, and black bears can be spotted in the area. In the fall, the surrounding forests are ablaze with the yellow foliage of western larch and aspen.
Nearby Attractions
The trail to the top of nearby Hall Mountain offers great views of the lake basin and surrounding mountains. Wildflowers canb abundant on this popular trail. A 20 mile drive will take you to the Salmo-Priest Wilderness area, which offers excellent hikes and rugged mountain scenery. Sullivan Lake is about four miles southeast of Metaline Falls, a quaint town with historic buildings. Crawford State Park is located on the west side of the Pend Oreille River near the U.S.- Canada border. In the summer, a park ranger conducts under-ground tours of Gardiner Cave, the main attraction at this park. Seattle City Light offers tours of their Boundary Hydroelectric Project, on the main-stem Pend Oreille River one mile from the international border.
What the agency tells you
SCRS & Recreation.gov policy states we will keep your reserved site until check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. If you haven't occupied it at any time during this period, your reservation is null and void and will be given to first come first serve campers. Your reservation will be a no show and no refund will be given.
Bears and cougars occur in the area. Any time you are away from your campsite and when sleeping at night, you are required to store all food, beverages, garbage and other attractants so they are unavailable to bears and other wildlife. Proper storage is usually in your vehicle or an approved container. See the campground host for further details.
You can rent PADDLEBOARDS at the campground. Reserve them ahead of time at SCENICCANYONS.COM
Everything else this campground posts · 5
A season pass for the day use area can be purchased at SCENICCANYONS.COM
Day Use parking is NOT included in your overnight camping fee. If you choose to park in the day use, you must PAY the day use fee for the convenience of parking there.
Off-highway vehicle operation is prohibited in 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.
For more information on Colville National Forest, click here
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 46 · 7 walk-in, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Accessible sites
- 38
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Beachcombing
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Mountain biking
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Paddle Boating
- Paddling
- Sailing
- Snorkeling
- Night sky · 92nd darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 2
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $31–$62 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
46 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 46 mapped sitesAll 46 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. 46 of the 46 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.
| CEDAR | 017 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 76 ft | 943 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 018 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 124 ft | 840 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 135 ft | 951 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 020 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 81 ft | 1,146 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 77 ft | 1,165 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 022 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 77 ft | 1,237 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 023 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 125 ft | 1,273 ftSullivan Creek | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 024 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 122 ft | 1,306 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 131 ft | 1,260 ftSullivan Creek | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 124 ft | 1,241 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 027 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 82 ft | 1,058 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 028 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 82 ft | 1,139 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 029 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 102 ft | 1,061 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 030 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 102 ft | 962 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| CEDAR | 031 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 159 ft | 824 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 50 ft | 696 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 002 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 50 ft | 700 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 61 ft | 644 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 004 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 84 ft | 592 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 80 ft | 503 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 61 ft | 500 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 61 ft | 440 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 78 ft | 458 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 151 ft | 312 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 010 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 78 ft | 407 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 85 ft | 318 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 012 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 88 ft | 314 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 53 ft | 400 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 014 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 53 ft | 384 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 015 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 112 ft | 561 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| FIR | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 112 ft | 641 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| PINE | 032 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 180 ft | 608 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| PINE | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 113 ft | 426 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| PINE | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 103 ft | 387 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| PINE | 035 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 103 ft | 383 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| PINE | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 96 ft | 538 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| PINE | 037 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 96 ft | 505 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| PINE | 038 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 110 ft | 632 ftSullivan Lake | $31–$62 |
| SULL | G01 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 474 ft | 180 ftSullivan Lake | $120 | |
| Walk-In | A1 | walk to | 16 ft | 78 ft | 928 ftSullivan Lake | $31 | |
| Walk-In | A2 | walk to | 16 ft | 76 ft | 907 ftSullivan Lake | $31 | |
| Walk-In | A3 | walk to | 16 ft | 76 ft | 981 ftSullivan Lake | $31 | |
| Walk-In | B1 | walk to | 16 ft | 76 ft | 1,017 ftSullivan Lake | $31 | |
| Walk-In | B2 | walk to | 16 ft | 81 ft | 1,113 ftSullivan Lake | $31 | |
| Walk-In | C1 | walk to | 16 ft | 85 ft | 1,305 ftSullivan Lake | $31 | |
| Walk-In | C2 | walk to | 16 ft | 85 ft | 1,303 ftSullivan Creek | $31 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 46 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
West SullivanColville National Forest · 0.3 miMill Pond CampgroundSullivan Lake Water Reserve Withdrawal · 0.6 miWest Sullivan CampgroundColville National Forest · 1.5 mi
Noisy CreekColville National Forest · 5.4 mi
Edgewater CampgroundColville National Forest · 9.2 miSilver Creek CampgroundColville National Forest · 11 miCampground is located 95 miles north of Spokane, Washington. From the junction of State Highway 20, follow State Highway 31 three miles north to the junction of the Sullivan Lake Road (County Road 9345). Follow the Sullivan Lake Road for 12.5 miles to the junction of Forest Road 2200 (Sullivan Creek). Turn right onto Sullivan Creek Road and follow it for 0.25 mile to the entrance of East Sullivan Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Metaline Falls, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 22°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
East Sullivan 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 →