Falls Creek Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 27All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
With all campsites located near the shoreline of glacially carved Lake Quinault, visitors are sure to enjoy the beautiful shoreline and interpretive opportunities in the area. From old-growth trees in the surrounding rain forest to excellent fishing, Falls Creek Campground's location is ideal for outdoor enthusiasts. Keep reading
Recreation
The forest features 10 miles of hiking trails and many waterfalls within walking distance of the campground. Lake Quinault is managed by the Quinault Indian Nation. As such, you must have a fishing permit and or boat permit through the Quinalt Indian Nation. Both may be purchased through local merchants. Lake Quinault Lodge offers boat and kayak rentals as well as a number of interpretive tours.
Facilities
There are 31 campsites that can accommodate tents, trailers and RVs up to 16 feet in length, however no hook ups are provided. Some sites are in wooded areas and others are not; many of the sites have a view of the lake. The campground has a potable water system. The site also has a barrier-free flush toilet as well as several accessible camp and picnic sites. 3 day use picnic sites are located along the shoreline. A large covered shelter is located on the shore, which was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, it provides opportunities for large families or groups.
Natural Features
The forested slopes of Olympic National Park provide a scenic backdrop across Lake Quinault. Towering conifers including Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, western hemlock and western red cedar provide dense shade for this beautiful setting. The forest floor is covered with lush rain forest plants including moss, ferns, false lily-of-the-valley and oxalis.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby, Lake Quinault Lodge and Rainforest Resort offers restaurants and gift shops. Short trails in the area include the Big Spruce Tree Trail, Forest Service Rainforest Nature Loop, Kestner Homestead Trail, and the Maple Glade Trail. Explore the ocean beaches close-by as well as the National Fish Hatchery. For a more adventuresome day, drive up the valley to hike along the rivers or climb the 4,200 ft. Colonel Bob Peak for expansive views of the mountains and valleys on a clear day. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (360) 288-2525.
Charges & Cancellations
Reserved sites must be occupied within 24 hours or the site will be forfetied for remainder of reservation.
What the agency tells you
Most campsites can only accomodate 1 vehicle, no other parking within campground. Please keep this in mind while planning and book campsites accordingly. In the case of motorcycles, the first two are considered to be one vehicle and the third and fourth are also considered to be one vehicle. No additional vehicle fees are collected for bicycles.
Bears and other animals frequent the area; use appropriate food storage containers.
Pets must be on a leash 6 ft. or less in length and under control within the campground and developed recreation sites.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
The Lake belongs to the Quinault Indian Nation and boat inspections must be completed by them before entering with your watercraft. Please keep boats clean, drained and dry, to avoid transport or introduction of aquatic invasive species.
Off-road vehicles are prohibited on the Olympic National Forest.
Chainsaw use and hunting are prohibited in the area's developed recreation sites.
Secure your items and valuables, even at night! Theft has been reported in area.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27 · 17 tent-only, 9 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 21 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…system. The site also has a barrier-free flush toilet as well as several accessible camp and picnic…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…a view of the lake. The campground has a potable water system. The site also has a barrier-free flush…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Fishing
- Stargazing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 161st 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 · 14
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee $5 per vehicle per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 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.
“Reserved sites must be occupied within 24 hours or the site will be forfetied for remainder of 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
31 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 31 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 27 of the 31 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.
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 001 | tent only nonelectric | 21 ft | 53 ft | 62 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 002 | type not stated | 7 ft | $25 | |||
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 003 | day use | 21 ft | yes | 22 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 004 | day use | 16 ft | yes | under 10 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 21 ft | 49 ft | 86 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 006 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | 49 ft | 79 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 007 | day use | 7 ft | under 10 ft | $25 | ||
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 008 | day use | 20 ft | under 10 ft | $25 | ||
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 33 ft | 34 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 33 ft | 63 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 45 ft | 36 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 38 ft | 66 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 38 ft | 67 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 49 ft | 83 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 34 ft | 103 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 016 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 40 ft | 131 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 32 ft | 113 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 018 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 34 ft | 92 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 019 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 66 ft | 67 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 020 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 66 ft | 132 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | 44 ft | 189 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 022 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | 32 ft | 145 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 023 | walk to | 16 ft | 23 ft | 65 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 024 | walk to | 16 ft | 23 ft | 60 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 025 | walk to | 16 ft | 36 ft | 97 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 026 | walk to | 16 ft | 29 ft | 59 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 027 | walk to | 16 ft | 27 ft | 80 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 028 | walk to | 16 ft | 29 ft | 68 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 029 | walk to | 16 ft | 27 ft | 80 ftFalls Creek | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 030 | walk to | 16 ft | 28 ft | 59 ft | $25 | |
| FALLS CREEK CAMPGROUND | 031 | walk to | 16 ft | 31 ft | 66 ftFalls Creek | $25 |
The agency files 4 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 31 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Willaby CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 0.9 mi
Campbell Tree Grove CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 7.5 mi
North Fork CampgroundOlympic National Park · 11 mi
Coho CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 13 miWynoochee Lake Shore Trailhead - Coho CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 13 miTake Highway 101 N toward Aberdeen. Take state highway 8, this turns into highway 12 which will get you to Aberdeen. From Aberdeen, WA drive Highway 101 north 41 miles to Quinault Lake South Shore Road (66 miles south of Forks.) Turn onto South Shore Road. Falls Creek Campground is about three miles from 101, on the Quinault Lake South Shore Road, just beyond the Pacific Ranger District, Quinault Office. Note: The turn off the South Shore Road into the campground is a very sharp left turn.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Amanda Park, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
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
Falls Creek Campground is in Washington’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Emily Randall (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →