Silver Falls Group Site
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 15 mi
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:30 UTC
- Sites
- 1In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Silver Falls Group site sits in a forested, mountain terrain on the banks of the Entiat River within the Silver Falls Campground. This is one of the more popular sites on the Entiat Ranger District. The cascading water of Silver Falls is a draw for many visitors to this particular area, which is especially refreshing in the summer heat. The Silver Falls National Recreation Trail is an exceptional family friendly hike that takes you up, around and down the falls. Panoramic views of the surrounding mountains await you on your hike. Keep reading
Recreation
Silver Falls Campground is a great base camp for a variety of outdoor recreational activities. Anglers enjoy casting a line into the Entiat River above Entiat Falls, about 2.5 miles up-river from the campground. Carving through a wide, U-shaped valley, the river is dominated by relatively shallow riffles interspersed with pools, plunge pools and glides where the trout fishing is quite good. Populations of rainbow, cutthroat and eastern brook trout are found in this tributary. Selective gear rules apply to fishing in the Entiat River. See Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for fishing rules and regulations. Silver Falls National Recreation Trail offers a 1.8 mile hike next to one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the region. The trail winds along Silver Creek to the base of the falls, through towering canopies of cedar and pine. The handcrafted stone staircase and bridges along this trail offer stopping points and panoramic views of the surrounding mountains. The Silver Falls Trail is an exceptional family friendly hike that takes you up, around and down the falls. The elevation gain is approximately 600 feet.
Facilities
Silver Falls Campground offers one group site with a historic C.C.C. covered cooking area, that is reservation only, and 31 first-come, first-served single sites. Each site contains a picnic table and campfire ring. Multiple vault toilets, garbage service, and a solar pump at the guard station with potable water are provided during the main summer season. If the trash cans are full, please pack out any extra trash produced greater than what the cans can accommodate.
Natural Features
The Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest offers stunning scenic vistas, high elevation alpine peaks, valleys of old growth forest and rugged shrub-steppe country that makes up the diverse landscape. Elevations range from below 1,000 feet to more than 9,000 feet. The surrounding forest provides excellent habitat for a wide range of wildlife. Visitors may catch glimpses of mule deer, elk, bald eagles, and a variety of woodpeckers and owls. Visitors can expect many days of warm, sunny weather in the summer, and winters with clear skies and plenty of snow. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (509) 784-4700.
Nearby Attractions
At Entiat River Road mile marker 27.8 is Box Canyon. This geological formation is about 65 million years in the making and the chasm spans a run of about 500 feet and ranges from 75-150 ft. deep. Fish Tail Falls can be observed from the view point running over, under and through a pile of large boulders, cascading another 15 feet. At times you can see salmon in this pool. Approximately 3 miles north on Entiat River Road from Silver Falls is Entiat Falls. This broad 25 foot cascading natural waterfall makes quite a rejuvenating impression. Bring a picnic lunch or just stretch your legs and enjoy. Take precaution as the river rock can be very slick. Ardenvoir is the closest town within 20 miles. Entiat is 29.5 miles away.
What the agency tells you
RV hookups are not available.
Fishing prohibited in river adjacent to the campground. Fishing is allowed above Entiat Falls, 2.5 miles north from Silver Falls. Selective gear rules apply to fishing in the Entiat River. See Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for fishing rules and regulations.
Additional first-come, first-served sites are available.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Water supplied by a solar pump located at the cabin.
Off-road vehicles prohibited from operating in the campground.
Chainsaw use not permitted in campground.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…picnic table and campfire ring. Multiple vault toilets, garbage service, and a solar pump at the guard…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, River, Creek
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 115th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 33 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:30 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Silver Falls Group Site closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Lakeview CampgroundLake Chelan National Recreation Area · 25 mi · walk-up · 9 sites
- Purple Point CampgroundLake Chelan National Recreation Area · 25 mi · walk-up · 6 sites
- Oriole CampgroundOkanogan National Forest · 56 mi · 10 sites
- Tiffany Springs CampgroundOkanogan National Forest · 58 mi · walk-up
recreation.gov availability, read 16:30 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA SILVER FALLS GROUP SITE | GRP01 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 246 ftSilver Creek | $125 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lake Creek Campground - Entiat RiverWenatchee National Forest · 2.0 mi
Fox Creek CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 2.6 miNorth Fork CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 2.7 miSpruce Grove CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 3.5 mi
Three Creek Group Site - Okanogan-Wenatchee NFWenatchee National Forest · 4.8 miHandy Springs CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 6.0 miFrom Wenatchee, travel north on US-97A for 14.4 miles and take a left on to Entiat River Road. Travel north 29.5 miles up the Entiat River Road to Silver Falls Campground on the left.
From Chelan, travel south on US-97A for 19.3 miles and take a right on to Entiat River Road. Travel north 29.5 miles up the Entiat River Road to Silver Falls Campground on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Manson, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 21°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 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
Silver Falls Group Site 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 →