Pioneer Park
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 34 mi
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $31From, per site
- Sites
- 17All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 24 – September 30Open May 24 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pioneer Park Campground is located in northeast Washington on the Pend Oreille River. Visitors enjoy hiking, fishing, boating and swimming. The campground's proximity to the city of Newport provides urban entertainment opportunities as well. Keep reading
Recreation
The Pioneer Park Heritage Trail, a short trail that highlights the history of the Kalispel Tribe, is a favorite attraction in the campground. Twelve interpretive displays are dispersed along the 0.3-mile boardwalk trail, which boasts scenic views of the river below. Excellent bass and trout fishing can be found in the Pend Oreille River. A boat ramp, picnic shelter and swimming area are located on-site.
Facilities
Each campsite is equipped with a picnic table, campfire ring and tent pad. Amenities include vault toilets and drinking water. Gravel parking spurs can accommodate any RV size.
Natural Features
The campground is surrounded by groves of ponderosa pine, white pine, hemlock and grand fir trees, and sits at an elevation of 2,000 feet. Campsites are spacious and shady, with an understory of wild roses and thimbleberry. Pioneer is situated at the southern edge of Colville National Forest, near the Idaho border. The forest spans 1.1 million acres and encompasses the Okanogan, Kettle River and Selkirk Mountain Ranges.
Nearby Attractions
The city of Newport is conveniently close for a restaurant outing or summer entertainment. Children will enjoy the Little People's Park in town.
What the agency tells you
Reservations will be held until check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. If the site has not been occupied at any time during this period, the reservation will be null and void and the site will be given to first-come first-served campers. The reservation will be a no show and no refund will be given.
Bears and cougars frequent the area; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from the area after eating
Day Use parking is NOT included in your overnight camping fee. If you choose to park in the day use, you must PAY the day use fee for the convenience of parking there.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
No off-road vehicles allowed
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.
Click here for more information on Colville National Forest.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 17 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…ring and tent pad. Amenities include vault toilets and drinking water. Gravel parking spurs can…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…pad. Amenities include vault toilets and drinking water. Gravel parking spurs can accommodate any RV size.…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 361st darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 31 km away
- No change
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.
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
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $31 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.
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
18 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 17 mapped sitesAll 18 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 16 of the 18 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA PIONEER | 001 | type not stated | 40 ft | 553 ftPend Oreille River | ||
| AREA PIONEER | 002 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 49 ft | 694 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 49 ft | 663 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 004 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 62 ft | 855 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 62 ft | 796 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 006 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 100 ft | 756 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 007 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 95 ft | 719 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 008 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 59 ft | 636 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 009 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 59 ft | 588 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 109 ft | 492 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 011 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 55 ft | 422 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 012 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 55 ft | 460 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 33 ft | 56 ft | 483 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 014 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 428 ftPend Oreille River | $31 | |
| AREA PIONEER | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 38 ft | 435 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 69 ft | 565 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| AREA PIONEER | 017 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 69 ft | 500 ftPend Oreille River | $31 |
| DAY | Pavilion | day use | 162 ft | 260 ftPend Oreille River | $60 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Albeni Cove3.3 mi
Priest River7.8 mi
Riley Creek14 mi
South Skookum LakeKaniksu National Forest · 14 mi
Browns Lake CampgroundKaniksu National Forest · 17 miOutlet at Priest Lake CampgroundKaniksu National Forest · 21 miFrom downtown Newport, travel east on U.S. Highway 2 for 0.75 miles. Immediately after crossing the Pend Oreille River bridge, turn left on LeClerc Road and travel 2 miles north to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Newport, WA
Typical weather
Typical May night 39°F, day 68°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 39°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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 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
Pioneer Park 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 →