Forest Boundary Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 7 mi
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.
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.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
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
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Clearwater Lookout CabinUmatilla National Forest · 6.2 mi
Clearwater Big HouseUmatilla National Forest · 6.4 mi
Tucannon Guard StationUmatilla National Forest · 6.5 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
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.
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.
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
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 →