Ladybug Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 14 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $8From, per site
- Season
- June 1 – November 30Open June 1 through November 30
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
Along with our welcomed visitors, the ladybugs of the Coccunellidae family, we also welcome you to enjoy these brightly colored insects along with other opportunities this campground has to offer. Being in close proximity of the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness , hunting, hiking, and bicycling are a few of the recreational opportunities that are at your fingertips. Please Leave-No-Trace .
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 $8 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.
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
“An additional $5 "per extra vehicle" fee will be charged for each vehicle exceeding the maximum two vehicle per site allowance.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($8), 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 · 6
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Tucannon Guard StationUmatilla National Forest · 3.7 mi
Clearwater Lookout CabinUmatilla National Forest · 4.6 miTeal Spring CampgroundUmatilla National Forest · 4.7 mi
Clearwater Big HouseUmatilla National Forest · 4.9 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Dayton, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 63°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical November night 24°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 moreOutside the published season
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
Ladybug 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 →