Lewis River HC (WA) Gifford Pinchot NF
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 25 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $5–$15Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 43 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Campsites may not be reserved in advance. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Visitors can pay by cash on site, or by using Scan and Pay . Download the Recreation.gov mobile app before you arrive at the campground, and pay through your phone using the Scan and Pay QR code which is located on site. Keep reading
Recreation
This rustic horse camp has access to many mixed use trails. There is a highline in each site and a stock only water trough with access to the Quartz Creek Trail and Lewis River Trail. There are nine camp sites and parking for 10 trailers and 15 vehicles.
Natural Features
Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (509) 395-3402.
What the agency tells you
There is no electricity at the campground and cell phone reception is poor.
There are no hookups.
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 inform ation.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
There are 16 spaces for day use parking adjacent to the campground at Platinum Creek Trailhead. These parking spots are part of the Lewis River Recreation Area where advanced reservations are required daily June 15 through September 6. The campground is First Come First Serve and payment of your campground fee includes a vehicle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 4
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 26 km away
- Patchy color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:40 UTC
recreation.gov lists 3 of the 4 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $5–$15 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.
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 15:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 sites
All 4 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. 3 of the 4 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Scan and Pay | ExtraVehicle | type not stated | |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | standard nonelectric | $5–$15 |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 4 | standard nonelectric | $5–$15 |
| Scan and Pay | Standard | standard nonelectric | $5–$15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lower Falls CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 2.4 mi
Tillicum CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.5 miTwin Falls CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 9.0 mi
Cultus Creek CG (WA) Gifford Pinchot NFGifford Pinchot National Forest · 11 mi
Cultus Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 11 mi
Olallie Lake CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 13 miFrom Cougar, Washington drive east on Forest Road 90 past Lower Lewis Falls Campground to Forest Road 93. Turn left on Forest Road 93 and go 1/8 mile to the horse camp on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Trout Lake, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Lewis River HC (WA) Gifford Pinchot NF 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: F. See every public-lands vote →