Salmon La Sac
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $27–$54Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 67All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Salmon La Sac Campground is bordered by the Cle Elum and Cooper Rivers in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. This campground is a popular gathering place for individuals and families wanting to enjoy the mountains and a multitude of recreational activities at an elevation of 2,300 feet. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to being a prime location for hiking, fishing, swimming, horseback riding and mountain biking in summer and early fall, the area offers excellent cross country skiing and snowmobiling in the winter months. Snowmobiles are not allowed in the campground. Salmon la Sac is closed to camping October through April. Nearby Salmon la Sac Sno-Park offiers access to groomed ski trails through the campground December through March. Salmon la Sac Campground is also popular among anglers, with rainbow and cutthroat trout and kokanee salmon available in abundance. Hikers will enjoy traversing rugged terrain from the Waptus River Trail, located within walking distance of the campground. Forested and lined with an underbrush of blueberries, hikers reach Hour Creek after strolling 3 miles. Take your lunch next to this clear mountain stream and return to camp or continue another 6 miles along the Waptus River to stunning views of Waptus Lake and craggy peaks of Summit Chief Mountain.
Facilities
Salmon la Sac Campground offers drinking water, trash collection and vault toilets. There are 67 sites for both tent and RV camping, 40 of these are reservable. Sites are equipped with picnic tables and campfire rings with grills.
Natural Features
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest offers stunning scenic views, with high, glaciated alpine peaks, valleys of old growth forest and rugged shrub-steppe country making up the diverse landscape. Elevations range from below 1,000 feet to over 9,000 feet. Visitors to the area can expect many days of warm, sunny weather in the summer, and winters with clear skies and plenty of snow. The surrounding undeveloped wilderness, clean streams and diverse forests support an abundance of wildlife, including deer, porcupine, native fish and migratory birds. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (661) 702-1420 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
The spectacular Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) is accessible near the campground. The PCT is one of the world's premier National Scenic Trails, showcasing some of North America's most fantastic scenery as it winds its way its way from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
Check in: 2 pm, Check out: 12 pm (noon)
No water or electric hookups are available
Off-road vehicles are not permitted
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Click here for more information about Okanogan-Wenatchee 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.
The campground may be full and no accommodations may be available after a no show is processed.
Pets must be leashed in the campground at all times
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 67
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 127 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 11
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…drinking water, trash collection and vault toilets. There are 67 sites for both tent and RV camping,…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Salmon la Sac Campground offers drinking water, trash collection and vault toilets. There are 67…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Berry Picking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water access
- Night sky · 297th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 14 km away
- Peak color
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
“Extra Vehicle Fee $8.00” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $27–$54 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.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
69 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 65 mapped sitesAll 69 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 66 of the 69 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 66 of the 69 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SACS | 001 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | yes | 248 ft | 536 ft | 216 ft | $27–$54 |
| SACS | 002 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | yes | 217 ft | 459 ft | 124 ft | $27–$54 |
| SACS | 003 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | yes | 212 ft | 576 ft | 214 ft | $27–$54 |
| SACS | 004 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 222 ft | 843 ft | 338 ft | $27–$54 |
| SACS | 005 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | yes | 212 ft | 674 ft | 410 ft | $27–$54 |
| SACS | 006 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | yes | 311 ft | 783 ftCooper River | 393 ft | $27–$54 |
| SACS | 007 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 148 ft | 390 ftCooper River | 283 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 008 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 148 ft | 452 ftCooper River | 255 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 009 | type not stated | 40 ft | 639 ftCooper River | 451 ft | |||
| SACS | 010 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 121 ft | 523 ft | 658 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 011 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 121 ft | 421 ft | 711 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 012 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 136 ft | 518 ft | 588 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 182 ft | 281 ft | 803 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 014 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 136 ft | 474 ft | 641 ft | $27–$54 |
| SACS | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 142 ft | 403 ft | 590 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 016 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 242 ft | 439 ftCooper River | 148 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 017 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 120 ft | 512 ftCooper River | 132 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 018 - HOST SITE | host pad | 100 ft | $27–$54 | ||||
| SACS | 019 | standard nonelectric | 115 ft | 120 ft | 604 ftCooper River | 210 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 020 | standard nonelectric | 127 ft | 115 ft | 685 ftCooper River | 310 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 021 | standard nonelectric | 127 ft | 97 ft | 574 ftCooper River | 345 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 022 | standard nonelectric | 115 ft | 126 ft | 585 ftCooper River | 408 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 023 | standard nonelectric | 115 ft | 97 ft | 498 ftCooper River | 381 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 024 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 121 ft | 404 ftCooper River | 260 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 025 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 117 ft | 487 ftCooper River | 288 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 026 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 124 ft | 304 ftCooper River | 137 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 027 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 117 ft | 446 ftCooper River | 222 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 159 ft | 456 ftCooper River | 372 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 029 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | yes | 166 ft | 290 ftCooper River | 443 ft | $27–$54 |
| SACS | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 115 ft | 229 ftCooper River | 366 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 031 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 80 ft | 324 ftCooper River | 330 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 032 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 97 ft | 184 ftCooper River | 520 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 033 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 80 ft | 324 ftCooper River | 392 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 034 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 97 ft | 174 ftCooper River | 582 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 035 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 105 ft | 115 ftCooper River | 565 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 036 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 105 ft | 89 ftCooper River | 480 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 037 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 121 ft | 67 ftCooper River | 360 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 038 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 71 ft | 162 ftCooper River | 202 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 039 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 111 ft | 47 ftCooper River | 267 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 040 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 71 ft | 140 ftCooper River | 147 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 041 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 87 ft | 43 ftCooper River | 188 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 042 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 87 ft | 71 ftCooper River | 134 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 043 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 123 ft | 109 ftCooper River | 166 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 044 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 146 ft | 75 ftCooper River | 350 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 045 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 85 ft | 177 ftCooper River | 464 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 046 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 85 ft | 93 ftCooper River | 488 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 047 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 157 ft | 229 ftCooper River | 479 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 048 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 169 ft | 176 ftCooper River | 390 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 049 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 160 ft | 333 ftCooper River | 323 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 050 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 138 ft | 308 ftCooper River | 228 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 051 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | $27–$54 | ||||
| SACS | 052 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 98 ft | 422 ftCooper River | 158 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 053 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 98 ft | 503 ftCooper River | 184 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 054 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 164 ft | 641 ftCooper River | 129 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 055 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 103 ft | 517 ftCooper River | 268 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 056 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 164 ft | 668 ftCooper River | 285 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 057 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 115 ft | 454 ftCooper River | 377 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 058 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 179 ft | 564 ftCooper River | 379 ft | $27–$54 |
| SACS | 059 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 119 ft | 396 ftCooper River | 418 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 060 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 119 ft | 434 ftCooper River | 318 ft | $27–$54 |
| SACS | 061 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 180 ft | 615 ftCooper River | 197 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 062 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 102 ft | 501 ftCooper River | 201 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 063 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 102 ft | 557 ftCooper River | 167 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 064 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 142 ft | 677 ftCooper River | 160 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 065 - HOST SITE | host pad | 72 ft | |||||
| SACS | 066 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | yes | 95 ft | 542 ft | 254 ft | $27–$54 |
| SACS | 067 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 149 ft | 538 ft | 300 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 068 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 447 ft | 349 ft | $27–$54 | |
| SACS | 069 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 196 ft | 343 ft | 482 ft | $27–$54 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cayuse Horse CampWenatchee National Forest · 0.3 miRed Mountain CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 2.6 miFrench Cabin Creek Recreation AreaWenatchee National Forest · 3.5 mi
Cle Elum River Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 3.6 miOwhi CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 3.6 mi
KachessWenatchee National Forest · 7.6 miFrom Seattle, take I-90 east for nearly 80 miles. Take exit 80 toward Salmon La Sac and turn left on Bullfrog Road. Continue to the 2nd traffic circle and take the second exit onto WA-903 north. Continue onto Salmon La Sac road. The campground is on the left, just past Cayuse Campground.
From Cle Elum, travel north on Highway 903 / Salmon la Sac Road for 19 miles. Stay left on Salmon La Sac road to the campground. The campground is on the left, just past Cayuse Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Roslyn, WA
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.
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.
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.
Who answers for this land
Salmon La Sac 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 →