Kettle Falls Campground
6Heads up3 park alerts · 3 fires, nearest 16 mi
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 75All 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
Kettle Falls Campground is on the northern section of Lake Roosevelt and convenient to the town of Kettle Falls. The facility has a multi-lane boat launch, making it popular among boaters, fishermen and water sports enthusiasts. The Kettle Falls area is rich in the history of American Indians as well as the fur trade; campers can learn more at a park visitor center less than 10 miles away. 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 and managed by the National Park Service. Keep reading
Recreation
The boat launch is directly within the facility, so many recreation activities can take place from the campground, including boating, fishing and water skiing. However, the lake is not very accessible to swimmers since there is a rocky descent from the campground to the water.
Facilities
The facility is conveniently located near the town of Kettle Falls and within 10 minutes of grocery stores and other amenities. The visitor center is also in town. This campground has 74 sites and is by reservation only.
Natural Features
The campground is forested and overlooks Lake Roosevelt. Much of the water originates from glaciers and snow in the cold, high Canadian Rockies, although lake temperatures are pleasant to swim in during summer. The area is abundant with wildlife, including moose, elk, deer and bald eagles. Dozens of species of fish inhabit the lake, such as walleye, bass, rainbow trout, salmon and sturgeon; fishing for sturgeon is now allowed during a limited season.
Nearby Attractions
The historic St. Paul's Mission, which is run by the National Park Service, is located about two miles from campground. Also in the area are Fort Colville and the Hudson Bay Company Post on the Upper Columbia. St. Paul's Mission . Sherman drive, a scenic loop, is nearby. 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 must 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 site hookups. 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.
Pets are allowed and must be restrained at all times.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
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 https://www.nps.gov/laro/index.htm or call 509-754-7889.
For reservations book here, or call 877-444-6777.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 75
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 4
- 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
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 60 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Coast
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Ranger programs
- Picnicking
- Visitor center
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 326th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 38 km away
- Patchy color
136 of 146 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:33 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 · 17
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 must 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 tot…” · 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 16:33 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
75 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 75 mapped sitesAll 75 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 75 of the 75 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. 75 of the 75 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop 1 | 001 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 34 ft | 504 ft | 166 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 002 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 34 ft | 475 ft | 154 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | yes | 50 ft | 441 ft | 104 ft | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 54 ft | 392 ft | 92 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 52 ft | 307 ft | 79 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 44 ft | 262 ft | 102 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 44 ft | 223 ft | 146 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 39 ft | 152 ft | 215 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 39 ft | 122 ft | 250 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 37 ft | 111 ft | 281 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 30 ft | 145 ft | 258 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 30 ft | 136 ft | 281 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 20 ft | 166 ft | 287 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 20 ft | 185 ft | 269 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 016 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 17 ft | 211 ft | 295 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 17 ft | 226 ft | 281 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 018 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 32 ft | 287 ft | 252 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 019 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 32 ft | 279 ft | 279 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 020 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 33 ft | 329 ft | 270 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 1 | 021 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 33 ft | 347 ft | 289 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 022 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 31 ft | 604 ft | 328 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 023 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 31 ft | 607 ft | 314 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 024 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 25 ft | 558 ft | 274 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 025 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 25 ft | 549 ft | 280 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 026 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 39 ft | 502 ft | 231 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 027 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 39 ft | 476 ft | 193 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 028 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 58 ft | 421 ft | 167 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 029 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 31 ft | 333 ft | 103 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 31 ft | 340 ft | 134 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 031 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 45 ft | 295 ft | 135 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 032 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 31 ft | 201 ft | 178 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 033 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 31 ft | 173 ft | 194 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 034 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 34 ft | 124 ft | 233 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 34 ft | 93 ft | 268 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 036 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 40 ft | 115 ft | 271 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 037 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 40 ft | 133 ft | 281 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 038 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 30 ft | 112 ft | 277 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 039 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 30 ft | 113 ft | 263 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 040 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | yes | 39 ft | 161 ft | 217 ft | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 041 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 39 ft | 185 ft | 214 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 042 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 25 ft | 241 ft | 173 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 043 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 25 ft | 246 ft | 152 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 044 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | 32 ft | 323 ft | 119 ft | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 045 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 32 ft | 343 ft | 92 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 046 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 12 ft | 391 ft | 122 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 047 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 12 ft | 391 ft | 111 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 048 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 20 ft | 448 ft | 132 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 2 | 049 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 20 ft | 464 ft | 152 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 050 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 24 ft | 679 ft | 417 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 051 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 24 ft | 665 ft | 396 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 052 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 37 ft | 594 ft | 342 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 053 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 37 ft | 582 ft | 351 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 054 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 38 ft | 547 ft | 314 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 055 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 49 ft | 520 ft | 320 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 056 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 51 ft | 477 ft | 270 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 057 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 61 ft | 395 ft | 239 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 058 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 39 ft | 351 ft | 260 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 059 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 39 ft | 326 ft | 225 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 060 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 22 ft | 279 ft | 249 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 061 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 22 ft | 265 ft | 231 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 062 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 54 ft | 199 ft | 262 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 063 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 30 ft | 148 ft | 259 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 064 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 30 ft | 150 ft | 233 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 065 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 34 ft | 120 ft | 242 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 066 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 44 ft | 128 ft | 205 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 067 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 44 ft | 170 ft | 161 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 068 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 49 ft | 178 ft | 139 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 069 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 20 ft | 236 ft | 83 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 070 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 20 ft | 248 ft | 78 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 071 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 26 ft | 357 ft | 55 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 072 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 26 ft | 343 ft | 64 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 073 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 82 ft | 429 ft | 139 ft | $30 |
| Loop 3 | 074 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 54 ft | 511 ft | 208 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 075 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 38 ft | 559 ft | 248 ft | $30 | |
| Loop 3 | 076 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 38 ft | 591 ft | 284 ft | $30 |
25 of 75 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Kettle Falls Locust Grove Group SiteLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 0.7 mi
Haag Cove Campground2.8 mi
Kamloops Island CampgroundLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 5.1 mi
Marcus Island Campground5.4 miCanyon Creek CampgroundColville National Forest · 5.7 miTrout Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 5.7 miThe campground is 87 miles north of Spokane, Washington. Take U.S. Highway 395 north to the town of Kettle Falls, turn south on Boise Road at Barney's Bridge and travel three miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Barney's Junction, 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
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
Kettle Falls 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 →