Hunters Campground
7Heads up3 park alerts · 4 fires, nearest 4 mi
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 37All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hunters Campground sits along the northern shoreline of Lake Roosevelt. The facility is popular among hunters and fishermen, but is also comfortable for families. Although there is no view of the lake directly from 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
There are 37 campsites that can be reserved. Each of the sites has a fire pit; and the facility has drinking water and flush toilets that are available depending on the season. A campground host lives on-site and can provide further information. This facility is more remote than some of the surrounding campgrounds; however, the small town of Hunters is nearby.
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.
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
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.
There are no electricity, water or sewer hook-ups. 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.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
Pets are allowed and must be restrained at all times.
No livestock.
No off-road vehicles permitted.
No off-road parking; park in designated areas only.
No metal detectors or collecting of artifacts allowed.
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.
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.
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.
For additional park information including other camping regulations, visit http://www.nps.gov/laro/index.htm or call 509-754-7889. Reservations can be book in this site or call 877-444-6777.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 37
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 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
- Stargazing
- Swimming
- Water access
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 137th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
64 of 72 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:35 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 15:35 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
37 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 37 mapped sitesAll 37 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 37 of the 37 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. 37 of the 37 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 | 38 ft | 17 ft | 449 ft | 872 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 02 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 17 ft | 460 ft | 867 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 03 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 25 ft | 332 ft | 822 ft | $30 |
| 1 | 04 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 25 ft | 324 ft | 797 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 05 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 26 ft | 189 ft | 681 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 06 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 26 ft | 205 ft | 666 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 07 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 33 ft | 178 ft | 629 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 08 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 27 ft | 197 ft | 608 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 09 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 27 ft | 171 ft | 594 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 10 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 21 ft | 185 ft | 575 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 11 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 21 ft | 169 ft | 557 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 12 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 39 ft | 178 ft | 506 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 13 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 20 ft | 152 ft | 474 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 14 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 20 ft | 166 ft | 461 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 15 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 27 ft | 145 ft | 442 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 16 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 37 ft | 134 ft | 407 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 17 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 37 ft | 162 ft | 378 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 18 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 43 ft | 158 ft | 336 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 19 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 37 ft | 170 ft | 291 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 20 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 33 ft | 208 ft | 293 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 21 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 31 ft | 198 ft | 263 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 22 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 227 ft | 249 ft | $30 | ||
| 1 | 23 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 20 ft | 297 ft | 274 ft | $30 | |
| 1 | 24 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 20 ft | 286 ft | 289 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 25 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 62 ft | 361 ft | 323 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 26 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 42 ft | 344 ft | 372 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 27 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 42 ft | 361 ft | 415 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 28 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 34 ft | 338 ft | 446 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 29 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 34 ft | 328 ft | 472 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 30 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 21 ft | 376 ft | 658 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 31 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 21 ft | 368 ft | 671 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 32 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 21 ft | 383 ft | 762 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 33 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 21 ft | 399 ft | 782 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 34 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 42 ft | 451 ft | 725 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 35 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 42 ft | 492 ft | 756 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 36 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 37 ft | 550 ft | 777 ft | $30 | |
| 2 | 37 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 37 ft | 583 ft | 812 ft | $30 |
25 of 37 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hunters Group Site3.7 mi
Camp Na-Bor-Lee (non-profit operated)Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 8.3 mi
Gifford Group Site12 mi
Gifford CampgroundLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 12 mi
Cloverleaf Campground (WA)13 mi
Fort SpokaneLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 16 miTake State Highway 2 west of Spokane for 32 miles to the town of Davenport. Turn north on State Highway 25 and travel 37 miles. Follow signs for the campground. Turn left (west) on Campground Road in the town of Hunters.
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
Hunters 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 →