Middle Fork Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 16 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $32–$64Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3835 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
This campground is located along the Middle Fork of the scenic Snoqualmie River in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Beneath a canopy of towering Douglas fir, cedar and Western hemlock, and located near several hiking trails within a short driving distance, this campground is a perfect site for both individual and small group camping excursions. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to being a prime location for hiking, fishing, horseback riding and picnicking in summer and early fall, Middle Fork offers excellent skiing and snowshoeing in the winter months. Approximately 1,500 miles of trails throughout the area can entice any hiker to get outdoors. From smooth paths meandering through deep quiet forests to challenging ascents up boulder-studded mountains, opportunities abound for every skill level. The popular Middle Fork Trail is a 3 mile trail offering visitors a glimpse into the area's diversity. The trail begins by crossing the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River via the Gateway Bridge, then turns upstream and meanders between the river and overhanging cliffs, offering sweeping views of nearby peaks. After climbing away from the river and passing under Stegosaurus Butte, a granite ridge towering over the valley at over 1,000 feet, the trail follows an old logging railroad grade used by pioneers and finally descends back to river level. The Middle Fork Snoqualmie Trail is also used by bicycles and horseback riders. Mountain bikes are allowed on the trail on odd- numbered days of the week. A Recreation Pass is required for each vehicle parked at the trailhead.
Facilities
Middle Fork Campground offers 39 standard sites, including two group sites. Picnic tables and food storage lockers are also available.
Natural Features
Hemmed in by several designated wilderness areas, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest showcases rugged peaks, sparkling alpine lakes and old-growth forests. On a clear day visitors will see Mt. Baker, the most prominent feature of the Mt. Baker Wilderness Area. Rising to an elevation of 10,781 feet, the active volcano from which the forest takes its name is perpetually snow-capped and mantled with an extensive network of creeping glaciers. Mt. Baker's summit, Grant Peak, is actually a 1,300-foot-deep mound of ice, which hides a massive volcanic crater. Wildlife in the area include mountain goats, coyotes, pine marten and a variety of migratory birds and native fish. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 932-0242.
Nearby Attractions
The Verlot Public Service Center, near the South Fork Stillaguamish River, was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1933 to 1942. Verlot`s handsome buildings reflect the architectural style and fine craftsmanship of that era and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Visitors enjoy the North Cascades and Mt. Rainer National Parks, where interpretive programs and exhibits offer education about the diverse landscape and history of the area.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
Water is not available at this campground. Please bring an adequate supply of water for drinking, cooking, and other uses.
Electric hookups are not available
Extra Vehicles: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per single tent site. Two RVs with tow vehicle per double site or two vehicles per double tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. A fee of $12/extra vehicle per night must be paid for upon arrival by cash or check only.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site may be forfeited and released to other guests.
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
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 Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest has a Food Storage Order in effect. All food and refuse must be acceptably stored (in a hard sided vehicle or trailer, food storage locker, or certified bear resistant container) or acceptably possessed (attended to by a person who is physically present).
Click here for more information about Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 38 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 46 ft
- Accessible sites
- 33
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 382nd darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 35 of the 38 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 · 15
What you actually pay
“A fee of $12/extra vehicle per night must be paid for upon arrival by cash or check only.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $32–$64 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.
“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 7
rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
39 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 35 mapped sitesAll 39 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. 35 of the 39 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 116 ft | 492 ftTaylor River | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 116 ft | 606 ftTaylor River | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 03 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 138 ft | 404 ft | $96 | |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 102 ft | 303 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 102 ft | 245 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 94 ft | 518 ft | $32–$64 | |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 94 ft | 610 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 123 ft | 293 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 95 ft | 286 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 90 ft | 115 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 95 ft | 274 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 56 ft | 327 ft | $32–$64 | |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 90 ft | 66 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 118 ft | 49 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 171 ft | 170 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 16 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 150 ft | 57 ft | $32–$64 | |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 17 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 140 ft | 32 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 18 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 132 ft | 95 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 19 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 110 ft | 194 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 20 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 110 ft | 218 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 21 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 99 ft | 341 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 22 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 56 ft | 298 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 23 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 100 ft | 428 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 24 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 122 ft | 492 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 25 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 74 ft | 452 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 26 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 74 ft | 521 ft | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 27 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 90 ft | 588 ftTaylor River | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 28 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 77 ft | 473 ftTaylor River | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 29 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 77 ft | 448 ftTaylor River | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 30 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 93 ft | 554 ftTaylor River | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 31 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 105 ft | 549 ftTaylor River | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 32 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 111 ft | 417 ftTaylor River | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 33 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 114 ft | 426 ftTaylor River | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 34 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 105 ft | 590 ftTaylor River | $32–$64 |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 35 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 114 ft | 440 ftTaylor River | $32–$64 | |
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 36 HOST | host pad | 46 ft | yes | 424 ftTaylor River | ||
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 37 | type not stated | 46 ft | yes | 312 ft | ||
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 38 | type not stated | 46 ft | yes | 187 ft | ||
| AREA MIDDLE FORK CAMPGROUND | 39 | type not stated | 46 ft | yes | 233 ft |
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 39 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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Heybrook LookoutSnoqualmie National Forest · 18 miFrom Interstate 5 north going toward Seattle, take Interstate 90 east toward North Bend. Take exit 34 and turn north on 468th Ave. Turn right onto SE Middle Fork Road/Forest Service Road 56. Continue about 12 miles to the campground, located about 1/2 a mile past the Middle Fork Trailhead.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Riverpoint, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 32°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Middle Fork Campground is in Washington’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Kim Schrier (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →