North Gorge Campground
5Heads up3 park alerts · 2 fires, nearest 3 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:54 UTC
- A night
- $23From, per site
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
North Gorge is a small, but popular, campground at the northeast edge of the park. A few sites are large enough for an RV, but most are built for tent camping. The campground is set in a grove of pines on the edge of the lake. A boat launch and dock are on the north or right side of the main loop. In the summer, North Gorge is busy on the weekends. Keep reading
Recreation
The small boat launch provides access to the lake. Boating, fishing, swimming and water skiing are activities that can easily take place from the campground. Campers might also enjoy relaxing and taking in the beautiful view.
Facilities
North Gorge is a reservation only campground with 11 sites. It can be reserved year round. However, the sites are not plowed in the winter time. There are picnic tables and campfire rings.
Natural Features
Lake side campground in a beautiful pine forest. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (509) 754-7889.
Nearby Attractions
The historic St. Paul's Mission, which is run by the National Park Service, is located about 18.8 south of the campground in the town of Kettle Falls. Also in the area are Fort Colville and the Hudson Bay Company Post on the Upper Columbia. St. Paul's Mission. Sherman drive, a scenic loop, is nearby.
Charges & Cancellations
All changes and cancellations need to be made through recreation.gov Late Cancellations or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window Individual Campsites: A customer 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 (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee.
What the agency tells you
Reservation only campground. No first come first served sites available. Reservation only. For reservations book here, or call 877-444-6777. There is no cell service so make sure to make your reservations in advance.
There are no electricity, water or sewer site hookups.
Vault toilets available.
Everything else this campground posts · 12
No potable water.
Pets are allowed and must be restrained at all times.
No livestock.
No off-road vehicles permitted.
No off-road parking; park in designated areas only.
No metal detectors or collecting artifacts allowed.
Bring confirmation with you. Transfer the confirmation information onto the green slips located at the Fee Board as you enter the campground. Hang filled out tag at your site.
No generator usuage during our Quiet Hours of 10 PM - 6 AM.
Fires are permitted in the fire rings year-round, EXCEPT when the fire danger rating reaches a critical level as indicated by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources for the area that includes Lake Roosevelt NRA.
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Weekly Boat Launch Permits must be purchased on line at https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/656441199 . Please purchase prior to your trip. Annual Boat Launch Permits are available in person by vendor only.
For additional park information including other camping regulations, visit https://www.nps.gov/laro/index.htm or call 509-754-7889. Reservations can be booked in this site or by calling 877-444-6777.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11 · 5 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 60 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Coast
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Water access
- Night sky · 132nd darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 27 km away
- Patchy color
16 of 20 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:54 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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 · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $23 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.
“All changes and cancellations need to be made through recreation.gov Late Cancellations or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window Individual Campsites: A customer 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 (not to exceed the…” · 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:54 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 11 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. 6 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| 1 | 01 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 76 ft | 77 ft | $23 |
| 1 | 02 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 23 ft | 122 ft | $23 | |
| 1 | 03 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 39 ft | 160 ft | $23 | |
| 1 | 04 | walk to | 23 ft | 141 ft | |||
| 1 | 05 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 98 ft | 91 ft | $23 | |
| 1 | 06 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 98 ft | 171 ft | $23 | |
| 1 | 07 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 175 ft | 118 ft | $23 | |
| 2 | 08 | walk to | 49 ft | 111 ft | |||
| 2 | 09 | walk to | 38 ft | 52 ft | |||
| 2 | 10 | walk to | 38 ft | 87 ft | |||
| 2 | 11 | walk to | 49 ft | 144 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Take Washington state Highway 395 north from Spokane. Travel 70.3 miles to the town of Kettle Falls, take Highway 25 north and travel 17.3 miles. Follow signs to the campground. It is on the west side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Barstow, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 57°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
North Gorge 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 →