Nason Creek Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 16 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $27From, per site
- Sites
- 7369 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Nason Creek Campground is located approximately 19 miles north of Leavenworth, Washington, and about one mile south of the Lake Wenatchee State Park. Set in old growth forest and in the Cascade foothills, Nason Creek is a popular destination. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to being a prime location for hiking, fishing, swimming, horseback riding and mountain biking in summer and early fall, the Nason Creek area offers excellent skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling in the winter months. The campground is also a great base camp for day-hikers and overnight backpackers. Several access trails from the area give hikers the chance to create their own excursions, whether it be a day hike or an overnight trip. Anglers enjoy fishing for rainbow trout, cutthroat trout and kokanee salmon from boat or shoreline on nearby Lake Wenatchee.
Facilities
The campground has 70 single sites and 3 double sites. Sites are all equipped with picnic tables, fire rings, and grills. Restrooms include flush toilets. Water is available in common areas.
Natural Features
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest offers stunning scenic views, with high, glaciated alpine peaks, valleys of old growth forest and rugged shrub-steppe country making up the diverse landscape. Elevations range from below 1,000 feet to over 9,000 feet. Visitors to the area can expect many days of warm, sunny weather in the summer, and winters with clear skies and plenty of snow. The surrounding undeveloped wilderness, clean streams and diverse forests support an abundance of wildlife, including deer, porcupine, native fish and migratory birds. Endangered and threatened species, including the Northern Bald Eagle, the Northern Spotted Owl, gray wolves and grizzly bears, also find havens in nearby ecosystems.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors enjoy the North Cascades and Lake Wenatchee State Park. Guests can also explore the area's colorful railroad and mining history at the Steven's Pass Historic District, or hit the slopes at Steven's Pass Ski Area. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (661) 702-1420 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
Electric hookups are not available
Click here for more information about Okanogan- Wenatchee 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.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Water is available in this location via a handpump and/or water spigot. Please DO NOT attach your RV hoses to the water systems we provide. These are made available to you to fill your water jugs/buckets and take back to your site to use. If you need to fill your RV water tanks, please fill your tank before you come to the campground. Thank you!
Extra vehicle fee of $11.00/night of stay.
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 73 · 28 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…rings, and grills. Restrooms include flush toilets. Water is available in common areas. Natural…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…grills. Restrooms include flush toilets. Water is available in common areas. Natural Features…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Beachcombing
- Canoeing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Night sky · 267th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 22 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 69 of the 73 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 · 14
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee of $11.00/night of stay.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $27 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
73 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 69 mapped sitesAll 73 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 73 of the 73 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. 69 of the 73 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| North Loop | 29 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 430 ft | 291 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 30 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 97 ft | 283 ft | 175 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 31 | type not stated | 25 ft | 200 ft | 157 ft | ||
| North Loop | 32 | tent only nonelectric | 79 ft | 103 ft | 35 ft | $27 | |
| North Loop | 33 | tent only nonelectric | 97 ft | 132 ft | 151 ft | $27 | |
| North Loop | 34 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 55 ft | 140 ft | 240 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 35 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 55 ft | 109 ft | 265 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 36 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 64 ft | 52 ft | 279 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 37 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 90 ft | 14 ft | 69 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 38 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 79 ft | 81 ft | 56 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 39 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 42 ft | 209 ft | 87 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 40 | tent only nonelectric | 42 ft | 239 ft | 72 ft | $27 | |
| North Loop | 41 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 41 ft | 195 ft | 44 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 42 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 41 ft | 214 ft | 22 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 43 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 41 ft | 170 ft | 26 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 44 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 207 ft | 62 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 45 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 87 ft | 169 ft | 179 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 46 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 139 ft | 225 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 47 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 63 ft | 201 ft | 162 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 48 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 90 ft | 232 ft | 175 ft | $27 |
| North Loop | 49 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 57 ft | 403 ft | 249 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 88 ft | 435 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 02 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 96 ft | 481 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 80 ft | 15 ft | 589 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 04 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 86 ft | under 10 ft | 503 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 05 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 52 ft | 82 ft | 466 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 06 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 63 ft | 26 ft | 410 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 07 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 63 ft | 37 ft | 347 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 08 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 41 ft | 118 ft | 339 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 09 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 41 ft | 128 ft | 380 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 10 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 33 ft | 129 ft | 436 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 11 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 33 ft | 134 ft | 469 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 12 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 40 ft | 120 ft | 522 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 13 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 40 ft | 99 ft | 551 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 14 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 42 ft | 95 ft | 600 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 15 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 42 ft | 91 ft | 641 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 16 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 49 ft | 94 ft | 690 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 17 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 44 ft | 95 ft | 744 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 18 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 44 ft | 93 ft | 701 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 19 | type not stated | 25 ft | 98 ft | 636 ft | ||
| South Loop | 20 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 70 ft | 118 ft | 531 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 21 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 70 ft | 171 ft | 465 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 22 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 87 ft | 271 ft | 464 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 23 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 87 ft | 303 ft | 538 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 24 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 119 ft | 306 ft | 703 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 25 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 422 ft | 745 ft | $27 | |
| South Loop | 26 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 456 ft | 707 ft | $27 | |
| South Loop | 27 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 80 ft | 454 ft | 604 ft | $27 |
| South Loop | 28 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 80 ft | 424 ft | 526 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 50 | tent only nonelectric | 60 ft | 148 ft | 565 ft | $27 | |
| West Loop | 51 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 60 ft | 130 ft | 547 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 52 | tent only nonelectric | 95 ft | 155 ft | 526 ft | $27 | |
| West Loop | 53 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 72 ft | 115 ft | 468 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 54 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 72 ft | 179 ft | 523 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 55 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 67 ft | 123 ft | 458 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 56 | tent only nonelectric | 54 ft | 143 ft | 464 ft | $27 | |
| West Loop | 57 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 65 ft | 185 ft | 516 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 58 | tent only nonelectric | 52 ft | 195 ft | 488 ft | $27 | |
| West Loop | 59 | tent only nonelectric | 52 ft | 245 ft | 513 ft | $27 | |
| West Loop | 60 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 45 ft | 292 ft | 564 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 61 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 45 ft | 318 ft | 607 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 62 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 46 ft | 343 ft | 649 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 63 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 79 ft | 325 ft | 661 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 64 | type not stated | 30 ft | 211 ft | 613 ft | ||
| West Loop | 65 | type not stated | 25 ft | 249 ft | 642 ft | ||
| West Loop | 66 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 74 ft | 286 ft | 672 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 67 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 74 ft | 334 ft | 709 ft | $27 |
| West Loop | 68 | tent only nonelectric | 47 ft | 457 ft | 814 ft | $27 | |
| West Loop | 69 | tent only nonelectric | 47 ft | 489 ft | 851 ft | $27 | |
| West Loop | 70 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 496 ft | 870 ft | $27 | |
| West Loop | 71 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 470 ft | 849 ft | $27 | |
| West Loop | 72 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 458 ft | 843 ft | $27 | |
| West Loop | 73 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 412 ft | 800 ft | $27 |
25 of 73 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Glacier View CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 4.7 mi
Grouse Creek Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 6.8 mi
Tumwater Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 8.4 mi
Finner Creek CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 11 mi
Napeequa Crossing CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 12 miFrom Leavenworth, WA head southwest on US-2 toward 9th street and go about 15 miles. Turn right onto WA-207 N for 3.4 miles and the campground will be on the left hand side.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Leavenworth, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 21°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
Nason 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 →