U.S. Forest Service · Wenatchee National Forest · WA

Prince Creek Campground

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 19 mi
Wildfire
Little Giant fire · 19 mi away · 172,912 acres · 95% contained · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Sisi fire · 21 mi away · 4,615 acres · 34% contained · updated Oct 14, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$10From, per site
Drawn from the record · 1,130 ft · 31% tree cover · Lake Chelan within reach · Bortle 2 sky
1,130 ftElevation
44 ftWater · Lake Chelan
22.3 miSW of Twisp, WA
31%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 59th darkest of 400 in WA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

SPECIAL NOTICE: Crews from the Forest Service and the Washington Conservation Corps pull and hand-spray Crupina, a noxious weed, in this area during April. The crews camp at Prince Creek Campground. The campground will be open to the public, however available camping sites will be limited and the campground will be more crowded during this time. This boat-in campground is located on the shores of Lake Chelan and borders Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness. The area offers a floating dock with a three boat capacity. Prince Creek offers six tent sites, five fire rings, five tables, and three toilets. Good site for larger groups. Provides access to: Lakeshore Trail #1247 , Prince Creek Wilderness Trail #1255 within Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness. Lake Chelan Boat-in and Drive-to Campground Guide and Map Kayaking and Canoeing Lake Chelan

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Creek
Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 13 km away
Peak color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (13 km) · Oct 3, 2026

Phone before you drive

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$10Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$20DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 9

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$10
A Federal Dock permit is required from May1st to October 31st for use of all National Forest Service and National Park Service docks.
Permits must be pre-purchased before docking.
Purchase a $10 Day Permit or $75 Season Pass from one of the vendors around the Lake Chelan Valley.
Click here for a list of vendors and more information about dock permits.
Campers hiking in or dropped off by the ferry and not using the dock do not need to pay the fee.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$10
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$20

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight48°Chance Rain Showers47% rain
Saturday57°Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny47% rain
Saturday Night35°Partly Cloudy
Sunday53°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Methow, WA

Typical weather

Typical October night 38°F, day 56°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.

90°32°20°

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.

Measured at: STEHEKIN 4 NW, WA (USC00458059), 18 miles away and 127 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Chelan74,650 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Myrtle Lake11,133 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Kim Schrier, official portrait

Prince Creek 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 →

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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.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (13 km) · 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.
Nearest place of any size: Methow, WA, 22.1 mi W (a census designated place). Straight line.