U.S. Forest Service · Umatilla National Forest · WA

Forest Boundary Campground

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 7 mi
Wildfire
Columbia Center Mutual Aid fire · 6.5 mi away · 150 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Paradise fire · 29 mi away · 9,656 acres · 86% contained · updated Sep 15, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
OpenInside the published season, our reading
A night
FreeNo camping fee
Season
June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
Drawn from the record · 4,500 ft · 39% tree cover · Tumalum Creek within reach · Bortle 2 sky
4,500 ftElevation
2,223 ftWater · Tumalum Creek
12 miS of Pomeroy, WA
39%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 79th darkest of 400 in WA
Opens June 1. No closing date published.Today

The place

the agency’s own description

In the agency’s own words

Forest Boundary Campground has a fantastic view overlooking Scoggin's Ridge with unbelievable sunsets. Neighboring this campground are Boundary Snow Park, Wooten State Wildlife Area and the Arbothknott Canyon. The ATV trailheads for the North and South trails are also located nearby.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. 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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
A nightFreeNo camping feethe agency’s fee record
A weekendNothingDerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
Camping feeFree
No charge.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
A night, and a whole weekendDerivedNothing

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight56°Mostly Cloudy
Saturday59°Partly Sunny5% rain
Saturday Night39°Partly Cloudy2% rain
Sunday53°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Pomeroy, WA

Typical weather

Typical June night 43°F, day 67°F.

Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 43°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

90°32°10°

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.

Measured at: WINCHESTER, ID (USC00109846), 45 miles away and 528 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

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Upper Tucannon12,485 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Asotin Creek16,433 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Michael Baumgartner, official portrait

Forest Boundary 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.