National Park Service · Olympic National Park · WA
Heart O' the Hills Campground
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Caution
Staircase Developed Area is Open, Use Caution in Burned Areas The Staircase developed area is open. The surrounding wilderness areas will remain closed as repair and recovery efforts continue. Use extreme caution when entering burned areas. Burned landscapes may contain falling trees and branches…
Park Closure
Highway 101 Overnight Closures at Hoh River Bridge, October 13-19 These overnight Highway 101 closures cuts off the only direct route between some of the most popular areas of the park. There are no detours available. Taking alternate routes around the east side of the Olympic Peninsula will add at least…
Danger
Bat Tests Positive for Rabies, Visitors Urged to Report Potential Contact A rabid bat was found at Olympic National Park near Staircase Bridge on August 9th. At approximately 2 p.m., the bat swooped down onto an unidentified woman and was temporarily caught in her hair. This individual is at risk for rabies and…
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 16, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: all 97 sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 9797 of them walk-up
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
1,810 ftElevation
159 ftWater · Ennis CreekOcean · 5.6 mi · to Puget Sound
3.3 miS of Port Angeles, WA
97Walk-up sites
63%Tree cover
Open year-roundToday
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Surrounded by old growth forest, Heart O' the Hills offers summer ranger programs and great family fun
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records
Around the campground
- Night sky · 365th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $24 with nothing added. 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 · 5
What you actually pay
The sign priceNational Park Service
A night, from$24
Heart O' the Hills Campground Fee$24
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$24
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$48
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($24), 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
Sign price: Derived by CAMPANAC from the National Park Service fee record: a stated per-night amount only · Sep 7, 2026
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: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Also near here
Deer Park CampgroundOlympic National Park · 9.9 mi
Dungeness Forks CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 15 mi
Louella CabinOlympic National Forest · 16 mi
Mora CampgroundOlympic National Park · 19 mi
Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort CampgroundOlympic National Park · 20 mi
Fairholme CampgroundOlympic National Park · 23 mi
Deer Park CampgroundOlympic National Park · 9.9 miDungeness Forks CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 15 miLouella CabinOlympic National Forest · 16 miMora CampgroundOlympic National Park · 19 miSol Duc Hot Springs Resort CampgroundOlympic National Park · 20 miFairholme CampgroundOlympic National Park · 23 miSource: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today63°Mostly Sunny1% rain
Tonight46°Chance Light Rain53% rain
Saturday50°Chance Light Rain then Mostly Sunny31% rain
Saturday Night36°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Port Angeles, WA
Source: National Weather Service, SEW forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
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
Heart O' the Hills Campground is in Washington’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Emily Randall (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: The agency lists it open right now.
Season: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
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
Cell signal: the Park 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.