Eightmile Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 24 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $27–$54Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2625 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Nestled in a forest canopy of pine and fir on the banks of Icicle Creek, Eightmile Campground in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest offers a peaceful setting for friends and family. Keep reading
Recreation
Eightmile Campground offers outdoor enthusiasts the opportunity to hike, fish, bike and enjoy a long list of outdoor recreational activities throughout the year. This campground has plenty of trails to explore by bike. Anglers may want to cast a line into the deep pools at nearby Toketie Lake. Populations of rainbow and cutthroat trout find habitat in this somewhat secluded lake. The nearby Fourth of July Trail offers hikers expansive ridge line views and challenging terrain. Beginning in the forest at 4,000 feet, the trail quickly climbs in elevation, out of the trees into more open, arid landscapes. The trail continues, traversing through mountain meadows with spectacular views of the Stuart Mountain Range and Icicle Valley. At 10.6 miles, this is a solid day hike, though backpackers can hook up connecting trails to continue for multiple days though adjacent wilderness settings.
Facilities
The Eightmile Campground has 41 single family campsites and 4 double family campsites. All have picnic tables and fire rings. Water is available via nearby hand pumps.
Natural Features
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest offers stunning scenic views, with high, glaciated alpine peaks, valleys of old growth forest and rugged shrub-steppe country making up the diverse landscape. Elevations range from below 1,000 feet to over 9,000 feet. More than 700 lakes and mountain ponds dot the glacier-carved terrain of nearby Alpine Lake Wilderness. Tree-covered valleys give way to rocky ridges and rugged peaks along the crest of the Cascades. Many peaks and slopes are permanently cloaked in snowfields. From wet forests of Douglas fir, cedar, and an understory of salal and berries, to firs and mountain hemlock, the landscape opens up to expansive meadows matted with low growth and ends with dry forestland of ponderosa pine and grasses. Congress designated the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in 1976 with a total of 362,789 acres. Prior to designation, aggressive mining and logging operations punched numerous access roads into the area, creating a wildly irregular boundary to this popular area. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (661) 702-1420 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Guests can also explore the area's colorful railroad and mining history at the Steven's Pass Historic District, or hit the slopes at Steven's Pass Ski Area.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
Extra vehicle fees of $11.00/night apply and will be collected at the park.
The primary occupant's discount pass cannot be applied to extra vehicles/campsites.
Electric hookups are not available.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Click here for more information about Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
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.
Water is available in this location via a handpump and/or water spigot. Please DO NOT attach your RV hoses to the water systems we provide. These are made available to you to fill your water jugs/buckets and take back to your site to use. If you need to fill your RV water tanks, please fill your tank before you come to the campground. Thank you!
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 47 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 20
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…All have picnic tables and fire rings. Water is available via nearby hand pumps. Natural Features…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Meadow
- Night sky · 308th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 8.3 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 25 of the 26 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 · 15
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fees of $11.00/night apply and will be collected at the park.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $27–$54 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.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show 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
26 sites
All 26 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. 25 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 002A | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 002B | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 011 | tent only nonelectric | yes | $27 | |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | $27–$54 | |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | $27–$54 | |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 018 | type not stated | 47 ft | ||
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | $27–$54 | |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 034 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | $27–$54 | |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 035 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 036 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | $27–$54 | |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 038 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 040 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
| EIGHTMILE CAMPGROUND | 041 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | yes | $27–$54 |
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Eightmile Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 0.0 miBridge Creek Group Site1.1 mi
Icicle Group CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 3.1 mi
Johnny Creek CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 4.1 mi
Ida Creek CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 5.5 miChatter Creek Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 6.8 miFrom the west, take Highway 2 east through Monroe and over Steven's Pass. Turn right on Icicle River Road and follow for approximately 8 miles. The campground will be on the left.
From the east, take Highway 2 west through Leavenworth. Turn left on Icicle River Road and follow road approximately 8 miles to the campground on the left.
The agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Leavenworth, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Eightmile 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 →