U.S. Forest Service · Wenatchee National Forest · WA
Red Mountain Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 8 mi
Wildfire
Three Queens fire · 8.2 mi away · 9,575 acres · 33% contained · updated Sep 29, 2026
Wildfire
Pigeon fire · 39 mi away · 9 acres · 0% contained · updated Oct 17, 2026
Wildfire
White River fire · 41 mi away · 1 acres · 0% contained · updated Oct 17, 2026
Wildfire
West Fork fire · 41 mi away · 310 acres · 16% contained · updated Oct 3, 2026
Wildfire
Sluiskin fire · 41 mi away · 0 acres · 0% contained · updated Oct 17, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 17, 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
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
2,300 ftElevation
331 ftWater · Cle Elum River
6.5 miNE of Roslyn, WA
36%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 303rd darkest of 400 in WA
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This campground, located along Cle Elum River on Salmon La Sac road, offers 10 single campsites. [Click image for information]
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Picnicking
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 16 km away
- Peak color
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (16 km) · Oct 4, 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.
Runs itRocky Mountain Recreation CompanyA private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Service (parent: ExplorUS)the operator link
Every line of the receipt · 3
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 a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
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 · Aug 23, 2026
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Coordinate47.36588, -121.10203
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near hereFrench Cabin Creek Recreation AreaWenatchee National Forest · 1.0 mi
Cle Elum River Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 1.0 mi
Cayuse Horse CampWenatchee National Forest · 2.4 mi
Salmon La SacWenatchee National Forest · 2.6 miOwhi CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 5.1 mi
Wish Poosh CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 6.0 mi
Cle Elum River Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 1.0 miCayuse Horse CampWenatchee National Forest · 2.4 miSalmon La SacWenatchee National Forest · 2.6 miOwhi CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 5.1 miWish Poosh CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 6.0 miSource: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today55°Rain Showers Likely then Partly Sunny70% rain
Tonight37°Mostly Clear
Sunday58°Mostly Sunny
Sunday Night41°Mostly Cloudy
NWS forecast for Roslyn, WA
Source: National Weather Service, PDT forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 31°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
80°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
Measured at: CEDAR LAKE, WA (USC00451233), 31 miles away and 740 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Red Mountain 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
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
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 (16 km) · Oct 4, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported peak color · Oct 4, 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.