U.S. Forest Service · Colville National Forest · WA

Lambert Creek Horse Camp

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 23 mi
Wildfire
Hill Loop fire · 23 mi away · 127 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 9, 2026
Wildfire
Mingo Meadow fire · 26 mi away · 3 acres · updated Oct 16, 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
OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
A night
FreeNo camping fee
Season
May 17 – October 28Open May 17 through October 28
Drawn from the record · 3,880 ft · 71% tree cover · Lambert Creek within reach · Bortle 2 sky
3,880 ftElevation
217 ftWater · Lambert Creek
22 miNW of Kettle Falls, WA
71%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 40th darkest of 400 in WA
Open May 17 through October 28Today

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

This shaded horse camp is located across the road from the Old Stage/Midnight Ridge Trailhead , which offers a great horseback, hiking, or mountain biking loop opportunity. The 6-unit campground offers parking spurs, picnic tables, rock fire rings, creek access for watering stock, and an outhouse. The area is fenced with cattleguards to keep cattle out. There is a 6-foot bypass gate adjacent to the entrance road cattleguard to allow stock users access to the trail system. There are currently no corrals, highlines, or hitching rails at this campground.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Creek
Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 26 km away
Patchy color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (26 km) · Oct 10, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. 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 nightFreeNo camping feethe agency’s fee record
A weekendNothingDerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
Camping feeFree
No Fee
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
A night, and a whole weekendDerivedNothing

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, 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

Overnight41°Mostly Cloudy2% rain
Saturday57°Mostly Sunny2% rain
Saturday Night31°Partly Cloudy
Sunday52°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Curlew Lake, WA

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Profanity28,944 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Twin Sisters13,051 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area

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

Who answers for this land

Michael Baumgartner, official portrait

Lambert Creek Horse Camp 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now. Its own recreation database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (26 km) · Oct 10, 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: Curlew Lake, WA, 6 mi E (a census designated place). Straight line.