Lower Falls Campground
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4341 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lower Falls Campground is located in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Visitors enjoy several waterfalls in the area and access to the Lewis River Trail. The campground is open from mid-May through October. Keep reading
Recreation
Near the campground are several trailheads that provide visitors with a variety of recreational opportunities. There are hiking trails, mountain bike trails, horse trails, and motorcycle trails within 10 miles of the campground. The Lewis River contains rainbow, cutthroat, and bull trout as well as whitefish. The area is catch and release only.
Facilities
Lower Falls Campground offers 43 standard sites that accommodate both tents and RVs (36 feet), but no hookups are available. Picnic tables and campfire rings with grills are provided, as are composting toilets and drinking water.
Natural Features
The campground is just off the Lewis River at an elevation of 1,300 feet. The campground road is paved and shaded by large evergreen trees. There are trails down to the Lewis River and falls area.
Nearby Attractions
There are falls viewing opportunities at Lower Lewis River Falls, Curly Creek Falls, Big Creek Falls, and Middle Falls, all within 15 minutes of the campground. Hiking trails within 10 miles include trail #31 Lewis River, Trail #5 Quartz Creek, and trail #80 Wright Meadows. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
What the agency tells you
Please bring reservation confirmation with you.
There are no hookups.
Campground is not open before Mid-May
Everything else this campground posts · 5
There is no electricity at the campground and cell phone reception is poor.
The camping fee includes entry for one vehicle and one legally towed vehicle, any extra vehicles will be subject to an extra vehicle fee of $8.00/night of stay at the campground
If a customer does not arrive at the campground or group facility by check-out time (1 p.m.) the day after their scheduled arrival, he or she will be assessed a $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night use fee and will release the campsite for others to use.
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.
The road leading to the campground is a gravel road which at times can have pot holes. If you go the speed limit or below you should be fine. It is recommended that only high clearance or 4 wheel drive vehicles attempt this drive!
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 43
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Composting Toilets
- “…rings with grills are provided, as are composting toilets and drinking water. Natural Features The campground…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…provided, as are composting toilets and drinking water. Natural Features The campground is just off the…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, River, Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Hiking
- Fall color · reported 8 days ago, 28 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 41 of the 43 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
“The camping fee includes entry for one vehicle and one legally towed vehicle, any extra vehicles will be subject to an extra vehicle fee of $8.00/night of stay at the campground” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$40 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
44 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 41 mapped sitesAll 44 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 41 of the 44 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Lower Loop | 03 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 336 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 04 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 315 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 05 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 251 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 06 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 224 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 07 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 111 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 08 Double | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 145 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 09 | standard nonelectric | 162 ft | 199 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 10 | standard nonelectric | 89 ft | 128 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 11 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 101 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 12 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 85 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 13 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 99 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 14 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 169 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 15 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 269 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 16 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 258 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 17 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 360 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 18 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 373 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 19 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 457 ft | $20–$40 |
| Lower Loop | 20 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 397 ft | $20–$40 |
| Road | 01 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 393 ft | $20–$40 |
| Road | 02 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 431 ft | $20–$40 |
| Road | Camp Host | host pad | 443 ft | ||
| Upper Loop | 21 Double | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 479 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 22 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 450 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 23 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 423 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 24 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 392 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 25 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 280 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 26 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 291 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 27 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 200 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 28 Double | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 167 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 29 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 176 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 30 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 261 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 31 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 319 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 32 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 383 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 33 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 380 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 34 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 445 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 35 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 494 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 36 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 462 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 37 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 539 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 38 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 562 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 39 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 602 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 40 | type not stated | 550 ft | ||
| Upper Loop | 41 | standard nonelectric | 137 ft | 525 ft | $20–$40 |
| Upper Loop | 42 | type not stated | 473 ft | ||
| Upper Loop | 43 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 454 ft | $20–$40 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 44 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lewis River HC (WA) Gifford Pinchot NFGifford Pinchot National Forest · 2.4 mi
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Cultus Creek CG (WA) Gifford Pinchot NFGifford Pinchot National Forest · 9.6 mi
Cultus Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 9.6 miTwin Falls CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 11 miCat Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 14 miFrom Portland or Seattle take I-5 to exit 21 for WA-503 E toward Woodland/Cougar. WA-503 will turn into FR 90, turn right at the Pine Creek Visitor Center. Lower Falls Campground will be on your right hand side after you pass mile marker 28 on FR 90.
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 45°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Lower Falls Campground 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: C. See every public-lands vote →