U.S. Forest Service · Colville National Forest · WA
Long Lake Campground
1Heads up1 fire 27 mi away
Wildfire
Kaiser Canyon fire · 27 mi away · 138,293 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 13, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 13, 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
- Season
- May 17 – October 28Open May 17 through October 28
Photos · Jeffrey Todd
3,290 ftElevation
286 ftWater · an unnamed pond
31 miE of Omak, WA
34%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 19th 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
Long lake has well shaded level campsites that can accommodate anything from tents to larger RVs and trailers. The entrance road is a bit narrow and rough along the eastern shoreline of Fish Lake, so larger RV's should use caution. Amenities include an old fashion hand pump well that provides the campground with potable water, flat parking spurs, tables, fire grills, and two outhouses. Long Lake is a beautiful, clear, fly fishing only lake that is stocked with cutthroat trout. Internal combustion engines are prohibited. Beautiful views of the 12.8 acre lake can be seen from the 1.5 mile trail that traverses along the waters edge. You can hear and see wildlife living on the lake including the common loon. Chipmunks are abundant in the campground so please remember to store all food properly before leaving your campsite. Keep reading
Facilities
12 campsites with picnic tables and fire pits Drinking water Vault toilets
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables and fire pits Drinking water Vault toilets”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Amenities include an old fashion hand pump well that provides the campground with potable…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
Source: Stated in the agency description
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note
“Camping: $8/single site Extra Vehicle: $2/per night” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 5
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
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 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 hereSwan Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 1.4 mi
Ferry Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 1.5 mi
Swan Lake KitchenColville National Forest · 1.7 miTen Mile Campground3.5 mi
Snow Peak CabinColville National Forest · 16 miSherman Overlook CampgroundColville National Forest · 18 mi
Ferry Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 1.5 miSwan Lake KitchenColville National Forest · 1.7 miTen Mile Campground3.5 miSnow Peak CabinColville National Forest · 16 miSherman Overlook CampgroundColville National Forest · 18 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today62°Mostly Sunny
Tonight39°Mostly Cloudy
Saturday57°Mostly Sunny1% rain
Saturday Night28°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Republic, WA
Source: National Weather Service, OTX forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 57°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 29°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
90°32°10°
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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
Measured at: REPUBLIC, WA (USC00456974), 11 miles away and 735 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Long Lake 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: 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.
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.
Nearest place of any size: Republic, WA, 10 mi SSW. Straight line.