Evans Campground
6Heads up3 park alerts · 3 fires, nearest 8 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:22 UTC
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 44All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Evans Campground, is located along the northeastern shoreline of Lake Roosevelt. The site is long and narrow, an orientation that allows for a fantastic, clear view of the lake from every vantage point. There are 44 individual campsites. Lake Roosevelt is a 130-mile lake on the Columbia River created by the Grand Coulee Dam. Named after President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it is part of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area and managed by the National Park Service. Keep reading
Recreation
The boat launch provides year-round access to the lake. Boating, fishing, swimming and water skiing are activities that can easily take place from the campground. Campers might also enjoy relaxing and taking in the beautiful view or attending educational ranger programs.
Facilities
Evans is a reservation only campground. It can be reserved year round. However, the sites are not plowed in the winter time. There are picnic tables, drinking water available seasonally. Fire pits, water access and playground are located within the facility.
Natural Features
Evans provides ample shade with thick forests of ponderosa pine, douglas fir and maple trees. The lake area is abundant with wildlife, including moose, elk and deer. Quite a few bald eagles have been spotted around Evans, and dozens of species of fish inhabit the lake, such as walleye, bass, rainbow trout, salmon and sturgeon. Fishing for sturgeon is now allowed during a short season. Much of the water in the originates from glaciers and snow in the cold, high Canadian Rockies, though temperatures are pleasant to swim in during summer.
Nearby Attractions
The historic St. Paul's Mission, which is run by the National Park Service, is located about eleven south of the campground in the town of Kettle Falls. Also in the area are Fort Colville and the Hudson Bay Company Post on the Upper Columbia. St. Paul's Mission. Sherman drive, a scenic loop, is nearby. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (509) 754-7889.
Charges & Cancellations
All changes and cancellations need to be made through recreation.gov Late Cancellations or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window Individual Campsites: A customer 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 (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee.
What the agency tells you
Reservation only campground. No first come available.
Dump/Fill Station onetime fee of $10 for campers with a reservation or $5 with Senior/Access pass. This is intended for visitors recreating in established campgrounds within the boundaries of Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area and not for residential use. Pay online prior to use at pay.gov/public/form/start/1575878640
Flush toilets are available and water faucets turned on May 1st to September 30, weather permitting. Lake level may affect water availability.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
Pets are allowed and must be restrained at all times.
No off-road vehicles permitted.
No off-road parking; park in designated areas only.
No metal detectors or collecting artifacts allowed.
Bring confirmation with you. Transfer the confirmation information onto the green slips located at the Fee Board as you enter the campground. Hang filled out tag at your site.
No generator usuage during our Quiet Hours of 10PM - 6 AM.
Fires are permitted in the fire rings year-round, EXCEPT when the fire danger rating reaches a critical level as indicated by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources for the area that includes Lake Roosevelt NRA.
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Weekly Boat Launch Permits must be purchased on line at https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/656441199 . Please purchase prior to your trip. Annual Boat Launch Permits are available in person by vendor only.
For additional park information including other camping regulations, visit https://www.nps.gov/laro/index.htm or call 509-754-7889.
For reservations book here, or call 877-444-6777.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 44 · 4 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 42 of 44
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal · Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 60 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 217th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 33 km away
- Patchy color
79 of 86 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:22 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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.
“All changes and cancellations need to be made through recreation.gov Late Cancellations or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window Individual Campsites: A customer 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 (not to exceed the…” · 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
44 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 44 mapped sitesAll 44 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 44 of the 44 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. 40 of the 44 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| 1 | 01 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 213 ft | 241 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 02 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 24 ft | 318 ft | 280 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 03 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 24 ft | 313 ft | 258 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 04 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 48 ft | 272 ft | 218 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 05 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 50 ft | 291 ft | 176 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 06 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 264 ft | 170 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 07 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 252 ft | 200 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 08 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 46 ft | 295 ft | 224 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 09 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 49 ft | 300 ft | 175 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 10 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 43 ft | 245 ft | 162 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 11 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 43 ft | 222 ft | 139 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 65 ft | 157 ft | 101 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 13 | walk to | 112 ft | 57 ft | 181 ft | ||
| 1 | 14 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 65 ft | 168 ft | 70 ft | $30 |
| 2 | 15 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 66 ft | 229 ft | 107 ft | $30 |
| 2 | 16 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 49 ft | 165 ft | 131 ft | $30 |
| 2 | 17 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 50 ft | 194 ft | 181 ft | $30 |
| 2 | 18 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 49 ft | 144 ft | 179 ft | $30 |
| 2 | 19 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 27 ft | 158 ft | 253 ft | $30 |
| 2 | 20 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 27 ft | 131 ft | 260 ft | $30 |
| 2 | 21 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 99 ft | 165 ft | 360 ft | $30 |
| 2 | 22 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 74 ft | 106 ft | 428 ft | $30 |
| 2 | 37 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 74 ft | 200 ft | 481 ft | $30 |
| 2 | 38 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 61 ft | 132 ft | 452 ft | $30 |
| 2 | 39 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 61 ft | 135 ft | 396 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 23 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 43 ft | 95 ft | 500 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 24 | walk to | 77 ft | 10 ft | 539 ft | ||
| 3 | 25 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 43 ft | 84 ft | 503 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 26 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 71 ft | 66 ft | 434 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 27 | walk to | 50 ft | under 10 ft | 433 ft | ||
| 3 | 28 | walk to | 50 ft | under 10 ft | 389 ft | ||
| 3 | 29 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 49 ft | 78 ft | 326 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 30 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 49 ft | 54 ft | 292 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 31 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 41 ft | 27 ft | 248 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 32 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 41 ft | 55 ft | 209 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 33 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 45 ft | 95 ft | 173 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 34 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 56 ft | 102 ft | 224 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 35 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 175 ft | 147 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 36 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 74 ft | 146 ft | 496 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 40 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 102 ft | 214 ft | 105 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 41 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 78 ft | 251 ft | 151 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 42 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 75 ft | 283 ft | 211 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 43 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 75 ft | 306 ft | 281 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 44 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 163 ft | 253 ft | 396 ft | $30 |
25 of 44 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Evans Group SiteLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 0.2 mi
Marcus Island Campground2.8 mi
Snag Cove CampgroundLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 3.1 miBig Meadow3.1 miCanyon Creek3.1 miDeer Creek Forest Camp3.1 miTake Washington state Highway 395 north from Spokane. Travel 70.3 miles to the town of Kettle Falls, take Highway 25 north and travel 11 miles. Follow signs to the campground. It is on the west side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Marcus, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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
Evans 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 →