Ferry Lake Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 29 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Season
- May 17 – October 28Open May 17 through October 28
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Ferry Lake Campground is a 9-unit fee campground located off the beaten path, but easily accessible campground that offers tranquil camping and good lake fishing. Each campsite has a parking spur, table, and fire ring. The campground has a mix of nice tent sites, camper/van sites, and small motorhome/trailer sites. Large RVs are not recommended due to the size of the turn-around at the end of the campground road. There are two outhouses and a boat launch for small watercraft. Keep reading
With its handful of small shaded campsites and a ban on internal combustion engines, the lake is quiet enough to hear ducks and loons calling to each other across the lake. The lake is regularly stocked with catchable-size Rainbow Trout. Late spring to early summer is the best time to fish this secluded and serene location. Two-pole fishing is allowed, but to protect breeding loons, it is unlawful to use lead weights or lead jigs that measure 1.5 inches or less along the longest axis. A public boat launch is located at the end of the campground. Swan Lake and Fish Lake are available within 3 miles for nice day trip fishing excursions. Wildflowers and huckleberry's are major attractions that bring visitors to the area. The nearest location for groceries and fishing supplies is 14 miles away in Republic, Washington.
Facilities
9 campsites with picnic tables and fire pits No drinking water Vault toilets
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “No drinking water Vault toilets”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…with picnic tables and fire pits No drinking water Vault toilets”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
“Camping: $6/single site Extra Vehicle: $2/per night” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Swan Lake KitchenColville National Forest · 1.3 mi
Long Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 1.5 miTen Mile Campground3.4 mi
Snow Peak CabinColville National Forest · 15 miSherman Overlook CampgroundColville National Forest · 17 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Republic, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 57°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 29°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 moreOutside the published season
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
Ferry Lake 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 →