Money Creek Campground
1Heads up1 fire 23 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $32–$72Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 23All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Situated on the banks of the South Fork Skykomish River in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Money Creek campground offers some of the most stunning scenery in the northern Cascade Range in Washington. Scattered beneath a towering canopy of old-growth forest, the sites in this campground are widely spaced and several are at the river's edge, making it an ideal setting for visitors wanting to camp in a private, rustic setting. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to being a prime location for hiking, and fishing in summer and early fall, Money Creek offers excellent skiing and snowshoeing in the winter months. The Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest's 1,500 miles of trails 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. Nearby Barclay Creek Trail is an easier hike that follows Barclay Creek through diverse forest until reaching Barclay Lake at an elevation of 2,422 feet. Along the trail, hikers will encounter old growth trees, deer ferns, trillium, wood violets, bleeding hearts and salmon berries in season. Cedar boardwalks lead to a log bridge that crosses Barclay Creek. Once over the bridge, visitors will arrive at the lake and can take in an outstanding view of the north wall of Baring Mountain, dramatically rising 3,700 feet above the lake.
Facilities
Money Creek campground offers standard sites, accommodating both tent and RV camping. Picnic tables, vault toilets and drinking water are also available. The nearby Miller River/Money Creek Winter Sports Area is popular base for winter activities.
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. 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 nearby Stevens Pass Historic District offers education on the area's colorful railroad and mining history. The slopes at Steven's Pass Ski Area are only a two hour drive from Money Creek campground. 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
Traffic noise can be heavy at times
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
- 23 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 8 of 23
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…both tent and RV camping. Picnic tables, vault toilets and drinking water are also available. The nearby…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Picnic tables, vault toilets and drinking water are also available. The nearby Miller River/Money…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 357th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 39 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.
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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–$72 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
24 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 23 mapped sitesAll 24 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 24 of the 24 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 22 of the 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MONEY CREEK | 001 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 99 ft | 248 ft | 160 ft | ||
| MONEY CREEK | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 61 ft | 175 ft | 257 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 51 ft | 172 ft | 198 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 004 Multi | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 51 ft | 145 ft | 155 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 106 ft | 109 ft | 67 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 006 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 106 ft | 86 ft | 99 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 141 ft | 202 ft | 183 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | 342 ft | 240 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 85 ft | 426 ft | 292 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 128 ft | 401 ft | 240 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 85 ft | 503 ft | 354 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 109 ft | 592 ft | 443 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 91 ft | 497 ft | 360 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 196 ft | 388 ft | 282 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 91 ft | 408 ft | 273 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 016 Closed | day use | 32 ft | 49 ft | 269 ft | $68 | ||
| MONEY CREEK | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 48 ft | 62 ft | 105 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 48 ft | 70 ft | 117 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 49 ft | 44 ft | 185 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 020 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 30 ft | 47 ft | 222 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 021 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 30 ft | 47 ft | 247 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 022 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 62 ft | 32 ft | 140 ft | $32–$72 |
| MONEY CREEK | 023 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 62 ft | 16 ft | 116 ft | $32–$72 | |
| MONEY CREEK | 024 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 149 ft | under 10 ft | 175 ft | $32–$72 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Miller River Group CampSnoqualmie National Forest · 2.7 mi
Beckler River CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 3.5 mi
Heybrook LookoutSnoqualmie National Forest · 8.1 mi
Evergreen Mountain LookoutSnoqualmie National Forest · 10 miSan Juan CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 11 miTroublesome Creek CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 11 miFrom Everett, Washington, take Highway 2 toward Monroe. From Monroe go east approximately 30 miles to campground sign. Turn south and travel a mile to campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Skykomish, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January 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
Money Creek 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 →