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U.S. Forest Service

Pierre Lake

ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks April 19. Season not published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Sites
15All of them booked ahead
Drawn from the record · 2,040 ft · 49% tree cover
2,040 ftElevation
49%Tree cover

The place

what’s there

Tents and rigs

Sites
15
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Sep 4, 2026

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 19, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 9

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Sep 4, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Sep 4, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

15 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 15 mapped sites
115 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Most room01 241 ft07 230 ft08 174 ft02 159 ft03 159 ft
Least room12 73 ft13 73 ft05 92 ft
Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 19, 2026

All 15 sites

15 of 15 sites located
Standard15
010203040506070809101112131415
Aerial · Esri World Imagery
Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Sep 4, 2026
Imagery: Esri World Imagery

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.

Pierre Lake01standard nonelectric241 ft228 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake02standard nonelectric159 ft293 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake03standard nonelectric159 ft210 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake04standard nonelectric153 ft203 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake05standard nonelectric92 ft106 ft
Pierre Lake06standard nonelectric92 ft18 ft
Pierre Lake07standard nonelectric230 ft328 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake08standard nonelectric174 ft500 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake09standard nonelectric152 ft414 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake10standard nonelectric116 ft299 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake11standard nonelectric116 ft230 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake12standard nonelectric73 ft212 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake13standard nonelectric73 ft201 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake14standard nonelectric92 ft182 ftPierre Lake
Pierre Lake15standard nonelectric92 ft213 ftPierre Lake
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Sep 4, 2026

Getting there

the phone number
The phone509-738-7700
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

The weather

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

The land, and who answers for it

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 15 of the 15 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Oct 3, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.