Gifford Campground
8Heads up3 park alerts · 5 fires, nearest 2 mi
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 42All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Gifford Campground sits along the northern shoreline of Lake Roosevelt. The facility is popular among hunters and fishermen, but is also comfortable for families. There is a clear view of the lake from most sites in the campground. A boat launch and beach are located within the facility. Lake Roosevelt is a 130-mile lake on the Columbia River created by the Grand Coulee Dam. Named after President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it is part of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area managed by the National Park Service. Keep reading
Recreation
This campground is popular for hunters (hunting is allowed in certain areas of the park) and fishermen. The lake is abundant with walleye, bass, rainbow trout and salmon. Sturgeon also live in the lake; fishing for sturgeon is now allowed For a limited season. The boat launch is open year-round. Families and visitors can attend educational programs, enjoy a leisurely walk to the lake or relax by the beach.
Facilities
Great for families, hunters and other large gatherings, there are picnic tables, drinking water, a boat launch and fire pits within the facility. There is very limited shopping nearby, so campers are advised to bring their own goods.
Natural Features
The site is situated in a thick Ponderosa pine forest that provides plenty of shade. The lake area is abundant with wildlife, including moose, elk, deer osprey and bald eagles. Dozens of species of fish inhabit the lake. Much of the water in the lake originates from glaciers and snowmelt from the cold, high Canadian Rockies. Although, lake temperatures are pleasant to swim in during summer. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (509) 754-7889.
Nearby Attractions
The Gifford Ferry is a free ferry offered by the Colville Confederated Tribes that can take passengers across the river. It runs daily and departs every 15 minutes.
Charges & Cancellations
All changes and cancellations need to be made through recreation.gov Late Cancellations or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window Individual Campsites: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee.
What the agency tells you
There are no electricity, water or sewer hookups at this site. Dump/Fill Station onetime fee of $10 for campers with a reservation or $5 with Senior/Access pass. This is intended for visitors recreating in established campgrounds within the boundaries of Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area and not for residential use. Pay online prior to use at pay.gov/public/form/start/1575878640
Flush toilets are available and water faucets turned on May 1st to September 30, weather permitting. Lake level may affect water availability.
Pets are allowed and must be restrained at all times.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
No off-road vehicles allowed.
No off-road parking; park in designated areas only.
No metal detecting or collecting of artifacts allowed.
Fires are permitted in the fire rings year-round, EXCEPT when the fire danger rating reaches a critical level as indicated by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources for the area that includes Lake Roosevelt NRA.
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Bring confirmation with you. Transfer the confirmation information onto the green slips located at the Fee Board as you enter the campground. Hang filled out tag at your site.
No generator usuage during our Quiet Hours of 10 PM - 6 AM.
Weekly Boat Launch Permits must be purchased on line at https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/656441199 . Please purchase prior to your trip. Annual Boat Launch Permits are available in person by vendor only.
Reservation only campground. No first come first served sites available. Reservation only. For reservations book here, or call 877-444-6777. There is no cell service so make sure to make your reservations in advance.
For additional park information including other camping regulations, visit https://www.nps.gov/laro/index.htm or call 509-754-7889.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 42
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 64 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal · Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 60 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Hunting
- Ranger programs
- Picnicking
- Water access
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 162nd darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
Something open on 30 of the next 30 bookable nightsread 14:12 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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 · 18
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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.
“All changes and cancellations need to be made through recreation.gov Late Cancellations or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window Individual Campsites: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the…” · 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 14:12 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
42 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 42 mapped sitesAll 42 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 42 of the 42 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 42 of the 42 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| 1 | 01 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 34 ft | 106 ft | 379 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 02 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 34 ft | 90 ft | 383 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 03 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 41 ft | 102 ft | 348 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 04 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 41 ft | 139 ft | 307 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 05 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 49 ft | 107 ft | 307 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 06 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 28 ft | 113 ft | 275 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 07 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 28 ft | 136 ft | 247 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 08 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 51 ft | 102 ft | 261 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 09 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 51 ft | 101 ft | 252 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 10 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 34 ft | 97 ft | 256 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 11 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 34 ft | 131 ft | 223 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 12 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 33 ft | 114 ft | 246 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 13 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 29 ft | 106 ft | 263 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 14 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 29 ft | 133 ft | 242 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 15 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 27 ft | 128 ft | 169 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 16 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 27 ft | 104 ft | 185 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 17 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 24 ft | 86 ft | 195 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 18 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 24 ft | 109 ft | 172 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 19 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 37 ft | 89 ft | 203 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 20 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 17 ft | 115 ft | 195 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 21 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 17 ft | 98 ft | 211 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 22 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 25 ft | 118 ft | 233 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 23 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 25 ft | 134 ft | 237 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 24 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 44 ft | 106 ft | 322 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 25 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 41 ft | 98 ft | 360 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 26 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 38 ft | 64 ft | 384 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 27 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 38 ft | 38 ft | 417 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 28 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 37 ft | 36 ft | 479 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 29 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 36 ft | 48 ft | 457 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 30 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 36 ft | 80 ft | 440 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 31 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 39 ft | 100 ft | 404 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 32 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 27 ft | 111 ft | 372 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 33 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 27 ft | 85 ft | 399 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 34 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 64 ft | 53 ft | 376 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 35 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 32 ft | 111 ft | 320 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 36 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 32 ft | 142 ft | 289 ft | $30 |
| 3 | 37 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 119 ft | 221 ft | 187 ft | $30 | |
| 3 | 38 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 74 ft | 104 ft | 274 ft | $30 | |
| 3 | 39 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 74 ft | 88 ft | 242 ft | $30 | |
| 3 | 40 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 51 ft | 115 ft | 178 ft | $30 | |
| 3 | 41 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 52 ft | 175 ft | 109 ft | $30 | |
| 3 | 42 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 51 ft | 162 ft | 141 ft | $30 |
25 of 42 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cloverleaf Campground (WA)0.7 mi
Gifford Group Site7.7 mi
Hunters CampgroundLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 12 mi
Hunters Group Site14 miLake Ellen West CampgroundColville National Forest · 15 miLake Ellen East CampgroundColville National Forest · 16 miPhysical address: 3579 SR 25 Gifford, WA 99131
Take State Highway 395 north from Spokane. Travel 83 miles to the town of Kettle Falls, then take State Highway 25 south and travel 23 miles. Follow signs for the campground. Turn right (west) into the campground.
If coming from the east, travel on State Highway 2 west of Spokane for 32 miles to the town of Davenport. Turn north on State Highway 25 and travel 56 miles. Follow signs for the campground. Turn left (west) into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Inchelium, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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 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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Gifford 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 →