U.S. Forest Service

Sherman Overlook

ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks April 20. Season not published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Sites
9All of them booked ahead
Drawn from the record · 5,240 ft · 53% tree cover
5,240 ftElevation
53%Tree cover

The place

what’s there

Tents and rigs

Sites
9
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Sep 4, 2026

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 20, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 9

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
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 4

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Sep 4, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

9 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 9 mapped sites
96 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Least room05 39 ft06 39 ft04 48 ft

All 9 sites

9 of 9 sites located
Standard9
Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.

Sherman Overlook01standard nonelectric120 ft1,024 ft
Sherman Overlook02standard nonelectric96 ft1,054 ftPass Creek
Sherman Overlook03standard nonelectric67 ft1,066 ftPass Creek
Sherman Overlook04standard nonelectric48 ft1,003 ftPass Creek
Sherman Overlook05standard nonelectric39 ft972 ftPass Creek
Sherman Overlook06standard nonelectric39 ft968 ftPass Creek
Sherman Overlook07standard nonelectric109 ft864 ftPass Creek
Sherman Overlook08standard nonelectric129 ft903 ftPass Creek
Sherman Overlook09standard nonelectric231 ft883 ftPass Creek

Getting there

the phone number
The phone509-738-7700
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

The weather

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

The land, and who answers for it

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: the number below is the only way to be sure.
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.