Moss Creek campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 24 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $21From, per site
- Sites
- 17All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located in the southeast corner of the Gifford-Pinchot National Forest and close to Columbia River Gorge, Moss Creek Campground sits alongside the Little White Salmon River. At an elevation of 1,400 feet, the campground is shaded by a thick canopy of hemlock, cedars, firs and maples. Moss Creek is ideal for those wishing to escape the summer heat. Keep reading
Recreation
The Little White Salmon River offers rainbow and brook trout for anglers. Visitors can enjoy wading in the cool waters.
Facilities
This small campground has 16 sites that are ideal for tents but useable by smaller RVs and trailers. Drinking water and vault toilets are available. Picnic tables and fire rings are provided, and firewood can be purchased on-site.
Natural Features
Located in southwest Washington State, the Gifford Pinchot National Forest encompasses 1.3 million acres and includes the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, established by Congress in 1982. Moss Creek is located in the Mount Adams Ranger District in the easternmost portion of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Mount Adams is a prominent landmark on the District, where elevations range between 1,200 and 12,276 feet. The District features a great diversity of habitats, from old growth to second growth forest, wetland areas, low and high elevation meadows, glaciers and low and high elevation lakes.
Nearby Attractions
Moss Creek Campground is an excellent base for exploring the various sights around Mount Adams and the Columbia River Gorge. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (509) 538-2060 for general information.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
Extra vehicle fee of $8.00/night of your stay.
The water pump at this campground is now broken and the water system will be down for the remainder of this 2026 season. Please bring all water you will need (drinking water, dishing washing, putting out you campfire etc) for the duration of your stay. Camping fee has been reduced to reflect the No Water issue here (5/27/2026).
Check in: 2 pm, Check out: 12 pm (noon)
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Click here for more information about Gifford Pinchot National Forest
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.
Firewood is available for sale at the host site for $10.00/bundle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 17 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 13 of 14 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE PIT TOILETS on 1 of 17 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…but useable by smaller RVs and trailers. Drinking water and vault toilets are available. Picnic tables and…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Fishing
- Night sky · 314th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 38 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 · 14
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicle Fee $8.00” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $21 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.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show 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
17 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 17 mapped sitesAll 17 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 17 of the 17 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 001 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 79 ft | 481 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 002 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 79 ft | 508 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 003 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 68 ft | 386 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 004 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 68 ft | 429 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 005 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 107 ft | 285 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 006 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 105 ft | 167 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 007 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 105 ft | 184 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 008 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 74 ft | 145 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 009 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 74 ft | 163 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 010 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 80 ft | 176 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 011 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 143 ft | 280 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 012 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 98 ft | 242 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 013 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 262 ft | 20 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 014 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 262 ft | 50 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 015 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | 98 ft | 338 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 016 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | 106 ft | 343 ft | $21 |
| AREA MOSS CREEK | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 143 ft | 476 ft | $21 |
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
Oklahoma campgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.0 mi
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Atkisson Group camp12 mi
Panther Creek campgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 12 mi
Peterson Prairie CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 12 miFrom I-5 at Vancouver, WA, turn east on Highway 14 for 56 miles to Cook. Turn north on Cook-Underwood Rd, drive 5 miles then turn left onto Willard Road, drive 2+ miles continue onto Oklahoma Rd, drive under 1 mile Campground is on your right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hood River, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Moss Creek 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: F. See every public-lands vote →