U.S. Forest Service · Colville National Forest · WA
Pierre Lake Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 8 mi
Wildfire
Hill Loop fire · 7.7 mi away · 127 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 9, 2026
Wildfire
Mingo Meadow fire · 27 mi away · 3 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- Season
- – October 27Closes October 27. No opening date published.
2,030 ftElevation
196 ftWater · Pierre Lake
20.3 miN of Kettle Falls, WA
54%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 76th darkest of 400 in WA
Closes October 27. No opening date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
There is one entrance and two ends to Pierre Campground. The north end has six sites for smaller campers. The south end has nine sites and a tight "J" hook turn around most of these are set up for pick-up campers and tents. 175 foot fishing dock.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 13 km away
- Patchy color
Source: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (13 km) · Oct 10, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
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
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note
“Camping: $6/single site Extra Vehicle: $2/per night” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 5
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
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 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: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
North Gorge CampgroundLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 10 mi
Deer Creek Forest CampColville National Forest · 12 mi
Davis Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 12 mi
Snag Cove CampgroundLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 12 mi
Kettle River Campground13 miBig Meadow14 mi
North Gorge CampgroundLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 10 miDeer Creek Forest CampColville National Forest · 12 miDavis Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 12 miSnag Cove CampgroundLake Roosevelt National Recreation Area · 12 miKettle River Campground13 miBig Meadow14 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
This Afternoon59°Mostly Sunny
Tonight31°Mostly Clear then Widespread Frost
Sunday56°Widespread Frost then Mostly Sunny
Sunday Night36°Mostly Cloudy
NWS forecast for Orient, WA
Source: National Weather Service, OTX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 57°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
90°32°10°
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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.
Measured at: NORTHPORT, WA (USC00455946), 14 miles away and 533 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Pierre Lake 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 17, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (13 km) · Oct 10, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported patchy color · Oct 10, 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.
Nearest place of any size: Orient, WA, 3.7 mi NE (a census designated place). Straight line.