U.S. Forest Service · Colville National Forest · WA
Little Twin Lakes Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 19 mi
Wildfire
Mingo Meadow fire · 19 mi away · 3 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Hill Loop fire · 24 mi away · 127 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 9, 2026
Wildfire
Bradeen Hill fire · 28 mi away · 4,417 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 8, 2026
Wildfire
Reservation Road fire · 42 mi away · 1 acres · updated Oct 15, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · 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
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
- Season
- – September 30Closes September 30. No opening date published.
3,730 ftElevation
327 ftWater · an unnamed stream
10.2 miE of Colville, WA
63%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 179th darkest of 400 in WA
Closes September 30. No opening date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
Camping sites are big and provide privacy from others. It's very private and great for wildlife viewing. The day use site is a wildlife viewing areas with a great view.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 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
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
Sign price: Derived by CAMPANAC from the U.S. Forest Service fee record: a stated per-night amount only · Sep 7, 2026
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Lake Gillette CampgroundColville National Forest · 5.5 mi
Gillette CampgroundColville National Forest · 5.7 mi
Lake Thomas CampgroundColville National Forest · 6.0 miLake Leo CampgroundColville National Forest · 8.5 mi
Big Meadow Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 11 mi
Edgewater CampgroundColville National Forest · 17 mi
Lake Gillette CampgroundColville National Forest · 5.5 miGillette CampgroundColville National Forest · 5.7 miLake Thomas CampgroundColville National Forest · 6.0 miLake Leo CampgroundColville National Forest · 8.5 miBig Meadow Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 11 miEdgewater CampgroundColville National Forest · 17 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight34°Partly Cloudy then Areas Of Frost6% rain
Saturday55°Mostly Sunny6% rain
Saturday Night29°Widespread Frost
Sunday51°Widespread Frost then Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Colville, WA
Source: National Weather Service, OTX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Little Twin Lakes 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls outside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 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.