Mineral Park Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 18 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $27–$54Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 21All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mineral Park Campground is situated near the confluence of the North and South Forks of the scenic Cascade River in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Scattered beneath a towering canopy of diverse forest, the sites in this campground are widely spaced and within walking distance to the waterfront, making it an ideal setting for visitors wanting to camp in a more private, rustic setting. The campground is divided into two sections, Mineral Park East and Mineral Park West. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to being a prime location for hiking, fishing, picnicking, and horseback riding in summer and early fall, Mineral Park Campground offers excelent skiing and snowshoeing in the winter months. Several trailheads for the overnight backpacker are located in the vicinity of the nearby town of Marblemount, including Hidden Lake Trail. Beginning in a forested setting, this trail climbs quickly to open meadows and grand views of the Cascade River. As it reaches higher elevations, it winds through angular slabs of granite and groupings of alpine fir. Spectacular views of high, jagged Cascade peaks can be seen from these higher meadows. Hidden Lake and the Hidden Lake Lookout can be seen from the pass, and reached by traversing down a talus slope.
Facilities
Mineral Park Campground can accommodate RV, trailer or tent-campers however water and electric hookups are not available. This is a no water facility so campers will need to bring their own supply. All sites are equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill and the campground has vault toilets available.
Natural Features
Hemmed in by several designated wilderness areas, the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest showcases rugged peaks, sparkling alpine lakes and old-growth forests. Mt. Baker, the most prominent feature of the Mt. Baker Wilderness Area, dominates the landscape on a clear day. 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. Flowing adjacent to this campground is the Cascade River, designated as a National Scenic River. Possessing remarkable values related to wildlife, culture, recreation and scenery, the Cascade River is preserved in its free-flowing condition and cannot not dammed or impeded. 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
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. The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), one of the world's premier National Scenic Trails, showcases some of North America's most fantastic scenery, winding its way its way from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington, and is accessible near the campground.
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
This is a no water facility so campers will need to bring their own supply.
This facility is pet friendly so long as animals are picked up after and kept on their leashes.
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment and tires before using lake or trails.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
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.
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 the Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 21
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 51 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…ring with grill and the campground has vault toilets available. Natural Features Hemmed in by several…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…hookups are not available. This is a no water facility so campers will need to bring their own…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Meadow
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Night sky · 113th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 37 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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, $27–$54 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 Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 22 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. 21 of the 22 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MINERAL PARK | 001 Multi | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | $27–$54 | ||
| MINERAL PARK | 002 Multi | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 103 ft | 330 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 003 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 90 ft | 249 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 004 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 78 ft | 218 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 005 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 61 ft | 142 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 006 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 61 ft | 101 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 007 Day Use Picnic | day use | 61 ft | 115 ftNorth Fork Cascade River | $8 | |
| MINERAL PARK | 008 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 165 ft | 71 ftNorth Fork Cascade River | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 009 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 101 ft | 365 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 010 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 101 ft | 406 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 89 ft | 333 ftNorth Fork Cascade River | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 012 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 162 ft | 154 ftNorth Fork Cascade River | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 013 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 148 ft | 164 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 014 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 146 ft | 189 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 015 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 89 ft | 314 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 135 ft | 195 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 017 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 126 ft | 197 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 018 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 126 ft | 104 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 019 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 130 ft | 69 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 020 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | $27–$54 | ||
| MINERAL PARK | 021 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 166 ft | 195 ft | $27–$54 |
| MINERAL PARK | 022 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 166 ft | 174 ft | $27–$54 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Marble Creek CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 6.8 mi
Sulphur Creek CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 15 mi
Goodell Creek CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 15 mi
Lower Goodell Group CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 15 mi
Upper Goodell Group CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 15 mi
Newhalem Creek CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 15 miFrom Seattle, take I-5 north for about 42 miles. Exit onto WA-530 East, then continue east on Highway 20 for about 40 miles. At the town of Marblemount, cross the bridge over the Skagit River and continue east approximately 16 miles to the Mineral Park Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Marblemount, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February 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
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.
Who answers for this land
Mineral Park Campground is in Washington’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Rick Larsen (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →