Pine Flats Group Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 27 mi
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:25 UTC
- Sites
- 1In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pine Flats group site is located next to the Mad River within the Pine Flats Campground, in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, on the Entiat Ranger District. Visitors have easy access to the Mad River trailhead which connects to several multiple-use trails. The campground contains two vault toilets, garbage service, and a hand pump for potable water. Keep reading
Recreation
The campground offers great access to trail opportunities for hikers, horseback riders, mountain bikers and motorcyclists. The Lower Mad River Trailhead is located within the campground. The Mad River trail is 14-miles long and leads to the upper Mad River meadows area. Spring time wildflower viewing is a popular activity while hiking up the trail.
Facilities
The campground offers one group site, that is reservation only, and six first-come, first-served single sites. Each site contains a picnic table and campfire ring. Two vault toilets, garbage service, and a hand pump with potable water are provided during the main summer season. If the trash cans are full, please pack out any extra trash produced greater than what the cans can accommodate.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the banks of the Mad River, at an elevation of 1,621 feet. Ponderosa pines tower over the area, which also contains several open meadows that are great for wildflower viewing during the spring bloom season. The surrounding forest provides excellent habitat for a wide range of wildlife. Visitors may catch glimpses of mule deer, bald eagles, and a variety of woodpeckers and owls.
Nearby Attractions
The Mad River Trail provides 14 miles of hiking, biking, horseback, and motorcycle riding access to some of the most beautiful alpine settings the area has to offer. The campground sits close to hundreds of miles of multiple use trails that are easily accessible from nearby trailheads. Entiat National Fish Hatchery is at mile marker six on the Entiat River Road and welcomes visitors in the summer. Tyee lookout is just up the road and offers visitors stunning views of the surrounding valley.
What the agency tells you
Mad River is closed to fishing from mouth to Windy Creek. Selective gear rules apply to fishing in the Mad River above Windy Creek. See Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife for fishing rules and regulations.
Large trailers and RVs (over 28 feet) are not recommended due to the configuration of the group site. Call Entiat Ranger Station for further information.
Hand pump for potable water is shared between sites.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
No livestock allowed; a hitching rack is available for those using Mad River Trail 1409.
Motorcycles are allowed on designated trails only; all-terrain vehicles (quads) are not allowed.
Ardenvoir is the closest town within 4 Miles. Entiat is 14 miles away.
Cell phone coverage is not available or very limited in the area.
Click here for more information on the Okanogan 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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 25 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…trails. The campground contains two vault toilets, garbage service, and a hand pump for potable…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…vault toilets, garbage service, and a hand pump for potable water. Recreation The campground offers…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Meadow
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Mountain biking
- OHV riding
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 284th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 38 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:25 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Pine Flats Group Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 2
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Lakeview CampgroundLake Chelan National Recreation Area · 39 mi · walk-up · 9 sites
- Purple Point CampgroundLake Chelan National Recreation Area · 40 mi · walk-up · 6 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 16:25 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA PINE FLATS | GRP01 | group standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 110 ft | $75 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Steliko LookoutSpokane Wenatchee Field Office · 4.0 mi
Tyee LookoutWenatchee National Forest · 7.6 miWindy Camp CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 11 miGoose Creek CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 12 mi
Fox Creek CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 12 mi
Lake Creek Campground - Entiat RiverWenatchee National Forest · 13 miFrom Wenatchee, travel north on US-97A (west side of Columbia River) for 14.4 miles to Entiat. Just after the bridge turn left onto Entiat River Road (County Road #19) and travel north 9.5 miles to the community of Ardenvoir. Go beyond the general store and turn left on Mad River Road / Forest Road 5700 and travel 4 miles to Pine Flats Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Entiat, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 25°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Pine Flats Group 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 →