U.S. Forest Service · Umatilla National Forest · WA
Midway Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 15 mi
Wildfire
Paradise fire · 15 mi away · 9,656 acres · 86% contained · updated Sep 15, 2026
Wildfire
Columbia Center Mutual Aid fire · 18 mi away · 150 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 14, 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
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Season
- June 1 – November 30Open June 1 through November 30
5,140 ftElevation
2,652 ftWater · Lewis Creek
13.3 miSE of Dayton, WA
53%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 69th darkest of 400 in WA
Open June 1 through November 30Today
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
At Midway's high elevation of 6,000 feet, snow pack levels are higher here than other campgrounds on the Pomeroy Ranger District of the Umatilla National Forest. Opportune hiking trails are connected to this campground for convenient accessibility. Please Leave-No-Trace .
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. 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.
From April 1 thru Nov. 30 there is a camping fee of $8.00 per night for first two vehicles, with an additional $5.00 per vehicle thereafter.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
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 · 4
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 herePanjab CampgroundUmatilla National Forest · 3.8 mi
Godman Guard StationUmatilla National Forest · 4.7 miGodman Campground/TrailheadUmatilla National Forest · 4.8 miLadybug CampgroundUmatilla National Forest · 4.9 miTucannon CampgroundUmatilla National Forest · 6.4 mi
Tucannon Guard StationUmatilla National Forest · 7.1 mi
Godman Guard StationUmatilla National Forest · 4.7 miGodman Campground/TrailheadUmatilla National Forest · 4.8 miLadybug CampgroundUmatilla National Forest · 4.9 miTucannon CampgroundUmatilla National Forest · 6.4 miTucannon Guard StationUmatilla National Forest · 7.1 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight47°Mostly Clear
Friday62°Mostly Sunny
Friday Night52°Partly Cloudy
Saturday54°Partly Sunny
NWS forecast for Dayton, WA
Source: National Weather Service, PDT forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
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
Midway 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.
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.