U.S. Forest Service · Gifford Pinchot National Forest · WA

Killen Creek Campground

4Heads up4 fires, nearest 35 mi
Wildfire
Mckinley fire · 35 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Garda Falls fire · 44 mi away · 200 acres · 0% contained · updated Oct 17, 2026
Wildfire
Sluiskin fire · 46 mi away · 0 acres · 0% contained · updated Oct 17, 2026
Wildfire
West Fork fire · 46 mi away · 310 acres · 16% contained · updated Oct 3, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the 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
A night
$20From, per site
4,460 ftElevation
35 ftWater · Killen Creek
38.5 miSE of Morton, WA
71%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 121st darkest of 400 in WA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

This campground is located near the Mt. Adams Wilderness . It is located in a high elevation stand of Lodgepole Pine and Silver Fir. It is a good place to camp prior to heading into the northern trails of the Wilderness. View a Killen Creek Campground map (.pdf).

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Creek
Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 16 km away
Patchy color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (16 km) · Oct 8, 2026

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 $20 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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
A night$20Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$40DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itRocky Mountain Recreation CompanyA private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Service (parent: ExplorUS)the operator link
Every line of the receipt · 5

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$20
Camping$20/Night
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$20
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$40

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($20), 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
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight39°Partly Cloudy then Chance Light Rain25% rain
Saturday45°Chance Light Rain then Mostly Cloudy51% rain
Saturday Night30°Patchy Fog then Partly Cloudy
Sunday49°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Trout Lake, WA

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Roadless
Horseshoe7,579 acres · 1 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
South Midway2,384 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
West Adams2,238 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 9, 2026

Who answers for this land

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, official portrait

Killen Creek Campground is in Washington’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: C. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest 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.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (16 km) · Oct 8, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest 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: Trout Lake, WA, 18.7 mi N (a census designated place). Straight line.