Satsop Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30–$45Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 19All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Satsop Campground is located 2.5 miles east of Wynoochee Lake and near the West Fork of the Satsop River. The Satsop Campground is rich in heritage and part of the emerald paradise that is Olympic National Forest. Evergreen conifers and hardwoods provide a beautiful wooded setting. Keep reading
Recreation
Recreational opportunities abound, including picnicking, swimming, hiking, biking, boating at nearby Wynoochee Lake, hunting and fishing, all possible within the area. The nearby Olympic National Park is full of hiking trails, marked and primitive. 2.5 Miles to the west is Wynoochee Lake open for boating, skiing, canoeing, fishing and swimming. If you love the outdoors, you will find something to do here!
Facilities
The campground offers 19 sites overall of which 7 standard campsites with full hookups that will accommodate trailers and RVs up to 30' in length. Three walk-in group tent sites will accommodate up to 16 people each. There are seven regular walk-in tent camping sites. Two RV/Tent sites have no hookups are also available. This year, Satsop will not have flush toilets as outhouses will be used as the primary bathrooms. Satsop has drinking water and trash collection, as well as picnic tables, campfire rings and a series of gravel roads. An RV dump station is located 2.5 miles away on Forest Road 2294.
Natural Features
Olympic National Forest is located on the Olympic Peninsula in the northwest corner of Washington State, known as the Evergreen State. The Olympic Peninsula is an unique geographic province consisting of five major landscapes: temperate rain forest, rugged mountain terrain, large lowland lakes, cascading rivers and saltwater beaches. Here the flora and fauna provide interest beyond the imagination.
Nearby Attractions
Scenic Spoon Creek Falls and Wynoochee Falls are both accessed by short trails nearby. The 16-mile Wynoochee Lake Shore Trail circles the entire nearby Wynoochee Lake and is open to mountain bikes. At the nearby Wynoochee Dam, visitors can enjoy exhibits at the vista overlook and a dramatic view of the river gorge just below the dam. Swimming and picnicking facilities are available at the dam.
What the agency tells you
No commercial services available at Wynoochee Lake or Coho Campground; motorists should have sufficient fuel for the return trip.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 19 · 8 tent-only, 3 group
- Hookups
- 7 electric, 7 water, 6 sewer
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- 10
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…as the primary bathrooms. Satsop has drinking water and trash collection, as well as picnic tables,…”
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Mountain biking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Wilderness access
- Night sky · 287th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
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
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$45 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 19 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. 19 of the 19 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Hike In | 10 | group standard nonelectric | yes | 65 ft | 610 ft | $50 | ||
| Hike In | 11 | tent only nonelectric | 60 ft | 678 ft | $30 | |||
| Hike In | 12 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 664 ft | $30 | |||
| Hike In | 13 | tent only nonelectric | 60 ft | 624 ft | $30 | |||
| Hike In | 14 | tent only nonelectric | 80 ft | 609 ft | $30 | |||
| Hike In | 15 | group tent only area nonelectric | 117 ft | 558 ft | $50 | |||
| Satsop | 01 | rv electric | 30 ft | 5/15/20/30 amp | 40 ft | 637 ft | $40–$45 | |
| Satsop | 02 | rv electric | 30 ft | 5/15/20/30 amp | yes | 36 ft | 605 ft | $40–$45 |
| Satsop | 03 | rv electric | 30 ft | 5/15/20/30 amp | yes | 34 ft | 577 ft | $40–$45 |
| Satsop | 04 | rv electric | 30 ft | 5/15/20/30 amp | yes | 32 ft | 551 ft | $40–$45 |
| Satsop | 05 | rv electric | 30 ft | 5/15/20/30 amp | yes | 31 ft | 524 ft | $40–$45 |
| Satsop | 06 | rv electric | 30 ft | 5/15/20/30 amp | yes | 31 ft | 499 ft | $40–$45 |
| Satsop | 07 | rv electric | 30 ft | 5/15 amp | yes | 46 ft | 459 ft | $40–$45 |
| Satsop | 08 | group standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 457 ft | $50 | |||
| Satsop | 09 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 65 ft | 555 ft | $35 | |
| Satsop | 16 | rv nonelectric | 26 ft | yes | 87 ft | 656 ft | $35 | |
| Satsop | 17 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 87 ft | 671 ft | $30 | ||
| Satsop | 18 | tent only nonelectric | 95 ft | 608 ft | $30 | |||
| Satsop | 19 | tent only nonelectric | 104 ft | 689 ft | $30 |
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
Where it is
Coho CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 2.4 mi
Campbell Tree Grove CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 9.7 miBrown Creek CampgroundOlympic National Forest · 12 mi
Graves Creek CampgroundOlympic National Park · 14 mi
North Fork CampgroundOlympic National Park · 15 miFrom Route 12 via Montesano: Turn north on Wynoochee Valley Road, 1 mile west of Montesano. Drive 35 miles on Wynoochee Valley Road and Forest Road 22 to a major intersection. Turn right (east). Drive about 1 mile and stay left at the Y. Drive another mile or so and the campground will be on your right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Neilton, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
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
Satsop Campground is in Washington’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, Emily Randall (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →