National Park Service · Ross Lake National Recreation Area · WA
Hozomeen Campground
10Heads up5 park alerts · 5 fires, nearest 2 mi
Wildfire
Border 2 fire · 2.1 mi away · 9,108 acres · 74% contained · updated Oct 12, 2026
Wildfire
Luna fire · 13 mi away · 8,553 acres · 42% contained · updated Sep 23, 2026
Wildfire
Ptarmigan fire · 21 mi away · 25,566 acres · 90% contained · updated Oct 8, 2026
Wildfire
Electric fire · 29 mi away · 495 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 10, 2026
Wildfire
Sisi fire · 46 mi away · 4,615 acres · 34% contained · updated Oct 14, 2026
Caution
Delays on Cascade River Road Starting October 13 Due to road maintenance there may be delays on Cascade River Roa beyond milepost 20 (Eldorado) three miles before the trailhead beginning October 13.
Park Closure
Hozomeen Gate Remains Closed Until further notice, the gate at Hozomeen will remain closed; vehicle and foot traffic across the US/Canada border is prohibited. Visitors must enter through a designated port of entry.
Caution
Diablo Lake Boat Launch Inaccessible to Powerboats Due to silt accumulation, the Diablo Lake boat launch at Colonial Creek South Campground is not usable for launching most powerboats. Expect shallow or no water at the launch ramp and the possibility of needing to carry your boat to or…
Caution
Stehekin Flash Flood and Debris Flow Area The Stehekin area is prone to flooding, which increases in a post-fire environment. Know before you go – visit the Post Fire Safety page for information on what to do in a flash flood and debris flow area
Park Closure
Fire Closures - Trail, Area, and Camp Closures For closures due to fire activity visit the Fire Closures page, including trail, area, and camp closures for current and post fire conditions.
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 14, 2026
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 16, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: all 75 sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 7575 of them walk-up
Photos · NPS / Anna Vornholt
1,620 ftElevation
67 ftWater · Ross Lake
48.4 miE of Peaceful Valley, WA
75Walk-up sites
84%Tree cover
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Hozomeen Campground is located at the north end of Ross Lake and is open from late May through October. There is no camping fee, and all sites are first-come, first-served. Facilities include boat launches, pit toilets, potable water, picnic tables and fire grates. Guests must pack-out all trash. Campsites located in the Upper Loop are closed until further notice due to hazard trees.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Night sky · 81st darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 2
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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 · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park 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
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
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: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate48.98710, -121.07110
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The phone(360) 854-7200
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near here
Gorge Lake Campground19 mi
Colonial Creek North CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 21 mi
Colonial Creek South CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 21 mi
Newhalem Creek CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 23 mi
Lower Goodell Group CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 23 mi
Upper Goodell Group CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 23 mi
Gorge Lake Campground19 miColonial Creek North CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 21 miColonial Creek South CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 21 miNewhalem Creek CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 23 miLower Goodell Group CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 23 miUpper Goodell Group CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 23 miSource: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight45°Partly Cloudy
Friday72°Mostly Sunny1% rain
Friday Night45°Mostly Cloudy then Light Rain77% rain
Saturday57°Light Rain then Partly Sunny85% rain
NWS forecast for Marblemount, WA
Source: National Weather Service, SEW forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
90°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: ROSS DAM, WA (USC00457185), 18 miles away and 384 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Hozomeen Campground is in Washington’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Rick Larsen (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: National Park 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: the number below is the only way to be sure.
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.
Nearest place of any size: Marblemount, WA, 33 mi NNE (a census designated place). Straight line.