Indian Creek Campground (WA)
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $27From, per site
- Sites
- 3938 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Indian Creek Campground is located at the edge of Rimrock Lake in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington's Cascades Range. The campground's proximity to high alpine lakes, lush forests and towering peaks in nearby wilderness areas make it a popular destination for outdoor enthusiasts. Keep reading
Recreation
Indian Creek Campground offers outdoor enthusiasts the opportunity to hike, fish, ski, raft and enjoy a multitude of recreational activities throughout the year. Beautiful rivers and streams, high elevation lakes and reservoirs provide an endless number of fishing opportunities for the experienced and beginning angler. Opportunities abound to pursue or view the legendary salmon and steelhead, several species of trout or a variety of warm-water fish. River enthusiasts enjoy whitewater rafting trips on one of the many scenic rivers in the area. The Tieton River is especially exciting in September when the Bureau of Land Reclamation floods the Tieton Valley, releasing fast and furious water.
Facilities
The campground offers several standard sites, perfect for both tent and RV camping. Picnic tables, vault toilets and drinking water are provided. No electrical hookups are available.
Natural Features
Rimrock Lake, adjacent to the campground and along the course of the Tieton River, is surrounded by rugged mountain terrain, wetlands and diverse conifer forests. The area around the campground supports wildlife such as mountain goats, native fish and migratory birds. Endangered and threatened species, including American bald eagles, northern spotted owls, gray wolves and grizzly bears also find havens in nearby areas. Precipitation varies greatly thoughout the area, ranging from approximately 140 inches along the Cascade Crest to only 10 inches along the eastern edge. Visitors to the area can expect many days of warm, sunny weather in the summer, and plenty of snow in the winter. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (661) 702-1420 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Boulder Cave National Recreation Trail is one of the most popular places in the Naches District. Visitors can walk the accessible trail along the river or explore Boulder Cave. Interpretive signs along the trail explain the geology, plants, animals and fire history of the area. Hikers may want to traverse a portion of the spectacular Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), one of the world's premier National Scenic Trails. This trail showcases some of North America's most fantastic scenery as it winds its way from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor 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 including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
Due to the unsafe conditions in this campground, as well as the removal of trees has yet to be completed, we are cancelling all reservations for the remainder of the 2026 season.
Off-road vehicle use prohibited in the campground
Click here for more information about Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Don't Move Firewood: Please protect Pacific Northwest forests by preventing the spread of invasive species. Firewood can carry insects and diseases that can threaten the health of our western forests. You can make a difference by obtaining and burning your firewood near your camping destination. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Water is available in this location via a handpump and/or water spigot. Please DO NOT attach your RV hoses to the water systems we provide. These are made available to you to fill your water jugs/buckets and take back to your site to use. If you need to fill your RV water tanks, please fill your tank before you come to the campground. Thank you!
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Single site fees include 1 vehicle and 1 legally towed vehicle. Any additional vehicles are subject to an extra vehicle fee on-site, space permitting. Extra vehicle fees are $11.00/night and must be paid by cash or check on-site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 39
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…both tent and RV camping. Picnic tables, vault toilets and drinking water are provided. No electrical…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Picnic tables, vault toilets and drinking water are provided. No electrical hookups are available.…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 203rd darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 38 of the 39 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fees are $11.00/night and must be paid by cash or check on-site.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $27 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.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor 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 including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
39 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sitesAll 39 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 39 of the 39 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. 38 of the 39 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 001 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 185 ft | 551 ft | 364 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 002 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 175 ft | 339 ft | 188 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 003 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 48 ft | 257 ft | 22 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 004 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 48 ft | 214 ft | 33 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 39 ft | 218 ft | 59 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 006 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 39 ft | 257 ft | 53 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 57 ft | 238 ft | 150 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 008 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 54 ft | 295 ft | 161 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 009 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 57 ft | 357 ft | 242 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 010 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 51 ft | 396 ft | 216 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 011 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 51 ft | 415 ft | 193 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 012 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 115 ft | 510 ftRimrock Lake | 58 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 013 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 42 ft | 483 ftRimrock Lake | 86 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 014 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 28 ft | 457 ftRimrock Lake | 101 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 015 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 66 ft | 505 ftRimrock Lake | 127 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 016 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 28 ft | 442 ftRimrock Lake | 119 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 017 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 40 ft | 524 ftRimrock Lake | 63 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 018 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 40 ft | 484 ftRimrock Lake | 65 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 234 ft | 219 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 020 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 54 ft | 302 ft | 216 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 021 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 48 ft | 272 ft | 302 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 48 ft | 224 ft | 302 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 023 | type not stated | 40 ft | 264 ft | 404 ft | ||
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 024 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 125 ft | 299 ftRimrock Lake | 370 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 025 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 45 ft | 160 ftRimrock Lake | 400 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 45 ft | 205 ftRimrock Lake | 360 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 37 ft | 120 ftRimrock Lake | 401 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 028 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 37 ft | 149 ftRimrock Lake | 372 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 105 ft | 145 ftRimrock Lake | 373 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 030 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 101 ft | 147 ftRimrock Lake | 359 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 031 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 101 ft | 157 ftRimrock Lake | 393 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 032 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 34 ft | 250 ftRimrock Lake | 357 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 033 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 34 ft | 260 ftRimrock Lake | 327 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 94 ft | 354 ftRimrock Lake | 259 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 035 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 75 ft | 471 ftRimrock Lake | 151 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 036 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 57 ft | 492 ftRimrock Lake | 81 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 037 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 109 ft | 601 ftRimrock Lake | 62 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 038 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 78 ft | 665 ftRimrock Lake | 115 ft | $27 |
| AREA INDIAN CREEK | 039 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 78 ft | 715 ft | 192 ft | $27 |
25 of 39 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Clear Lake Group SiteSnoqualmie National Forest · 1.5 miPeninsula CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 5.0 miSouth Fork Bay CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 5.4 mi
South Fork Group Site - Wenatchee NF (WA)Snoqualmie National Forest · 5.6 miDog Lake CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 5.6 miWhite Pass Lake (Leech Lake) CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 6.7 miFrom Yakima, travel 37 miles west on Highway 12 (White Pass Highway) to the campground entrance, about 16 miles west of the junction of 12 and 410.
From Packwood, travel east on Highway 12. The campground is about 20 miles east of White Pass.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tampico, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 25°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Indian Creek Campground (WA) is in Washington’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Dan Newhouse (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →