Lake Creek Campground - Entiat River
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 16 mi
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 17:04 UTC
- A night
- $15When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 18In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Nestled in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest on the Entiat Ranger District, Lake Creek Campground offers visitors some of the most stunning scenery in the central Washington area with easy access to an abundance of recreational activities such as hiking, motorcycle riding, and mountain biking. This campground offers 18 sites that accommodate both tent and RV camping. Hookups are not available and the maximum trailer length is 28 feet. Nine sites are reservable only through recreation.gov with the other nine being first come, first served. There are two vault toilets, one dumpster, and two hand pumps with potable water at the campground. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, and motorcycle riding top the list of recreational activities in the area. Just up the road, Lake Creek Trailhead offers recreationalists the ability to access three different trails that are open to most activities. The Silver Falls National Recreation Trail is less than three miles up river and provides a great family hike to a spectacular waterfall. Backpackers and horseback riders can enjoy the trails of the Glacier Peak Wilderness from the Entiat River Trailhead located at the end of Entiat River Road.
Facilities
Lake Creek Campground offers 18 sites that accommodate both tent and RV camping. Hookups are not available and the maximum trailer length is 28 feet. Nine sites are reservable only through recreation.gov with the other nine being first come, first served. Each campsite has a picnic table and fire ring. There are two vault toilets, one dumpster, and two hand pumps with potable water at the campground.
Natural Features
Many of the sites overlook the Entiat River as it cascades down the valley to meet the Columbia. The open forest provides plenty of sunshine and a diverse habitat that supports deer, bears, coyotes, bald eagles, and numerous other animals. The Entiat River is fertile ground for salmon and steelhead which still use this waterway for spawning grounds.
Nearby Attractions
There are multiple trailheads just up the road. The first one you encounter is the Lake Creek Trailhead which is a favorite among mountain bikers and motorcycle riders. Silver Falls National Scenic Trail is the next trailhead you come to and provides a family friendly one and a half mile loop hike to a spectacular waterfall. If you are heading back down river the Entiat National Fish Hatchery is at mile six on Entiat River Road and welcomes visitors in the summer. If your looking for some fun in town the tourist destinations of Chelan and Leavenworth are a relatively short drive away.
What the agency tells you
Please Note: Check out time is 12:00 PM, check in time is 2:00 PM.
The road is narrow and has very limited areas to pass vehicles or turn around a trailer. Please ensure all vehicles are parked completely within the designated parking area for your campsite.
Fishing is prohibited in this section of the Entiat River below Entiat Falls.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Discharge of firearms is prohibited within the campground.
Use of chainsaws in the campground is prohibited.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 18 of 18 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (HAND PUMP) on 18 of 18 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Creek
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Mountain biking
- Mushroom Picking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Night sky · 134th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 36 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book until it reopensread 17:04 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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Watch for it to come back
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We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 10
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Lake Creek Campground - Entiat River closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Lakeview CampgroundLake Chelan National Recreation Area · 27 mi · walk-up · 9 sites
- Purple Point CampgroundLake Chelan National Recreation Area · 27 mi · walk-up · 6 sites
- Oriole CampgroundOkanogan National Forest · 57 mi · 10 sites
- Tiffany Springs CampgroundOkanogan National Forest · 59 mi · walk-up
recreation.gov availability, read 17:04 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
18 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 18 mapped sitesAll 18 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 18 of the 18 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 1 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 90 ft | $15 |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 52 ft | 23 ft | $15 |
| A | 11 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 52 ft | 25 ft | $15 |
| A | 12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 44 ft | 27 ft | $15 |
| A | 13 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 44 ft | 24 ft | $15 |
| A | 14 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 17 ft | $15 |
| A | 15 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 32 ft | $15 |
| A | 16 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 56 ft | 86 ft | $15 |
| A | 17 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 55 ft | 118 ft | $15 |
| A | 18 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 55 ft | 104 ft | $15 |
| A | 2 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 68 ft | 113 ft | $15 |
| A | 3 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 85 ft | $15 |
| A | 4 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 79 ft | $15 |
| A | 5 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 62 ft | 77 ft | $15 |
| A | 6 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 62 ft | 70 ft | $15 |
| A | 7 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 56 ft | $15 |
| A | 8 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 65 ft | 38 ft | $15 |
| A | 9 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 65 ft | 30 ft | $15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Fox Creek CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 0.7 mi
Silver Falls Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 2.0 miNorth Fork CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 4.7 mi
Tyee LookoutWenatchee National Forest · 5.3 miSpruce Grove CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 5.5 miHandy Springs CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 5.6 miFrom Wenatchee, WA, travel approximately 14 miles north on Highway 97A and turn left onto Entiat River Road. Travel approximately 27.4 miles on Entiat Rive Road to Lake Creek Campground.
From Chelan, WA, travel approximately 18 miles south on Highway 97A and turn right onto Entiat River Road. Travel approximately 27.4 miles on Entiat Rive Road to Lake Creek Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Manson, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 21°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
Lake Creek Campground - Entiat River is in Washington’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Kim Schrier (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →