Edgewater Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 29 mi
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $31–$62Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 19All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 24Opens May 24. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Edgewater Campground is perched along the banks of the Pend Oreille River in the Colville National Forest. The quiet, family-friendly campground attracts visitors who come for boating, hiking and fishing. The picturesque area, surrounded by cedar, hemlock and Douglas fir, boasts views of the Selkirk Mountains. Keep reading
Recreation
Trout and bass fishing is great for avid anglers. A boat ramp is located on-site. Hikers enjoy exploring nearby Terry Trail and Box Canyon. Wildlife watching for moose, white-tailed deer and the endangered woodland caribou is another popular activity.
Facilities
Parking spurs are gravel and grass and can accommodate any size RV. A campground host is on-site, and firewood is available for sale. Amenities inc lude vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection.
Natural Features
The campground sits on a bluff on the east bank of the river at an elevation of 2,000 feet. Many campsites offer a scenic view of the river. The forest floor is covered with thimbleberry, wild rose and other shrubs. The 1.1 million acre Colville National Forest lies in the northeast corner of Washington. The forest's great salmon runs first attracted native Americans to the area, then miners, homesteaders and fur trappers followed. The variety of resources and natural beauty in the region continues to attract visitors. Three mountain ranges, the Okanogan, Kettle River and Selkirk, run through the Colville Forest.
Nearby Attractions
Sweet Creek Falls is located just north of the city of Ione.
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 we will give it to first come first serve campers. Your reservation will be a no show and no refund will be given.
No hookups available
Click here for more information on Colville National Forest.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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
- 19
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 72 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…available for sale. Amenities inc lude vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. Natural…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…sale. Amenities inc lude vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. Natural Features The…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 194th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 19 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. 19 of the 19 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.
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 111 ft | under 10 ft | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 98 ft | 91 ft | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 98 ft | 47 ft | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 71 ft | 211 ft | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 71 ft | 145 ft | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 75 ft | 240 ft | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 75 ft | 171 ft | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 87 ft | 210 ft | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 87 ft | 123 ft | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 127 ft | 152 ft | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 129 ft | 176 ft | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 95 ft | 296 ftPend Oreille River | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 95 ft | 215 ftPend Oreille River | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 134 ft | 279 ftPend Oreille River | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 96 ft | 384 ftPend Oreille River | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 96 ft | 400 ftPend Oreille River | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 124 ft | 297 ftPend Oreille River | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 76 ft | 144 ftPend Oreille River | $31–$62 |
| AREA EDGEWATER CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 76 ft | 114 ftPend Oreille River | $31–$62 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Noisy CreekColville National Forest · 6.1 mi
Big Meadow Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 7.4 miWest Sullivan CampgroundColville National Forest · 8.0 miLake Leo CampgroundColville National Forest · 8.5 miMill Pond CampgroundSullivan Lake Water Reserve Withdrawal · 8.6 mi
West SullivanColville National Forest · 9.1 miThe campground is located approximately 90 miles north of Spokane, WA. After crossing the Ione Bridge eastbound over the Pend Oreille River, look for the Edgewater Campground sign and immediately turn left. The campground is located 2 miles north of the bridge on Box Canyon Road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ione, WA
Typical weather
Typical May night 41°F, day 67°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
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
Edgewater 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 →