U.S. Forest Service · Wenatchee National Forest · WA
French Cabin Creek Recreation Area
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 8 mi
Wildfire
Three Queens fire · 8.0 mi away · 9,575 acres · 33% contained · updated Sep 29, 2026
Wildfire
Pigeon fire · 38 mi away · 9 acres · 0% contained · updated Oct 17, 2026
Wildfire
White River fire · 40 mi away · 1 acres · 0% contained · updated Oct 17, 2026
Wildfire
West Fork fire · 40 mi away · 310 acres · 16% contained · updated Oct 3, 2026
Wildfire
Sluiskin fire · 40 mi away · 0 acres · 0% contained · updated Oct 17, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 17, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
2,350 ftElevation
729 ftWater · an unnamed pond
5.6 miNE of Roslyn, WA
43%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 310th darkest of 400 in WA
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This dispersed camping area is located along the west bank of the Cle Elum River north of Cle Elum Lake and is accessed by Forest Service Road 4308.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 18 km away
- Peak color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (18 km) · Oct 4, 2026
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Cle Elum River Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 0.5 miRed Mountain CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 1.0 mi
Cayuse Horse CampWenatchee National Forest · 3.3 mi
Salmon La SacWenatchee National Forest · 3.5 mi
Wish Poosh CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 5.3 miOwhi CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 5.5 mi
Cle Elum River Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 0.5 miRed Mountain CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 1.0 miCayuse Horse CampWenatchee National Forest · 3.3 miSalmon La SacWenatchee National Forest · 3.5 miWish Poosh CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 5.3 miOwhi CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 5.5 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight49°Rain Showers Likely70% rain
Saturday55°Rain Showers Likely then Partly Sunny70% rain
Saturday Night37°Mostly Clear
Sunday58°Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Roslyn, WA
Source: National Weather Service, PDT forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 31°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
80°32°20°
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.
Measured at: CEDAR LAKE, WA (USC00451233), 30 miles away and 790 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
French Cabin Creek Recreation Area is in Washington’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Kim Schrier (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (18 km) · Oct 4, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported peak color · Oct 4, 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.