U.S. Forest Service · Colville National Forest · WA
Sherman Overlook Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 25 mi
Wildfire
Hill Loop fire · 25 mi away · 127 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 9, 2026
Wildfire
Bradeen Hill fire · 26 mi away · 4,417 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 8, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 13, 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
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- Season
- – September 18Closes September 18. No opening date published.
5,220 ftElevation
1,097 ftWater · Pass Creek
17.6 miW of Kettle Falls, WA
53%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 48th darkest of 400 in WA
Closes September 18. No opening date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
This Campground is equipped with picnic areas and 9 tent/trailer sites. Bathrooms are available. Some campsites are private. Connects to the Kettle Crest via the Sherman Pass Tie Trail #96. The campground also provides access to Sherman Overlook Trail #96.A. This is a short paved ADA accessible interpretive trail.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 36 km away
- Patchy color
Source: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (36 km) · Oct 10, 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
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
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
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note
“Camping: $6/single site Extra Vehicle: $2/per night” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
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 · 5
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
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 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: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near hereJungle Hill Horse CampgroundColville National Forest · 2.1 mi
Snow Peak CabinColville National Forest · 2.5 miWapaloosie Horse CampgroundColville National Forest · 4.2 miLambert Creek Horse CampColville National Forest · 9.0 miOld Stage Horse CampColville National Forest · 9.0 miTrout Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 10 mi
Snow Peak CabinColville National Forest · 2.5 miWapaloosie Horse CampgroundColville National Forest · 4.2 miLambert Creek Horse CampColville National Forest · 9.0 miOld Stage Horse CampColville National Forest · 9.0 miTrout Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 10 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today55°Mostly Sunny
Tonight40°Mostly Cloudy
Saturday50°Mostly Sunny1% rain
Saturday Night30°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Pine Grove, WA
Source: National Weather Service, OTX forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
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
Sherman Overlook Campground is in Washington’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Michael Baumgartner (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls outside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
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 16, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 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 (36 km) · Oct 10, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported patchy color · Oct 10, 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: Pine Grove, WA, 9.9 mi ESE (a census designated place). Straight line.