Silver Fir Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 21 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $32–$64Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2018 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Silver Fir Campground is situated along the North Fork Nooksack River in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The area offers stunning scenery and access to numerous recreational activities within the North Cascades in Washington. Keep reading
Recreation
The campground provides a prime location for hiking and picnicking in summer and early fall and is a non-motorized Sno-Park in the winter. Hikers and backpackers are especially fortunate to have access to a variety of trails near the campground and in the surrounding Mt. Baker Wilderness area. Trails accessed from Hannegan Pass Road, less than a mile from the campground, lead into stunning scenery in the Mt. Baker Wilderness and North Cascades National Park.
Facilities
Silver Fir Campground is a smaller campground, offering sites to accommodate tents and RVs. A group picnic shelter for up to 25 people is also available. Picnic tables and campfire rings with grills are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. No electrical hookups are available. Groceries, firewood and other conveniences are available 20 minutes away in the nearby community of Glacier.
Natural Features
The Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest showcases rugged peaks, sparkling alpine lakes and old-growth forests, providing visitors with unique and surprising landscapes. Mt. Baker, the most prominent feature of the Mt. Baker Wilderness, dominates the landscape on a clear day. Rising to an elevation of 10,781 feet, the active volcano is perpetually snow-capped and mantled with an extensive network of creeping glaciers. Mt. Baker's summit, Grant Peak, is a 1,300-foot-deep mound of ice, which hides a massive volcanic crater. Wildlife in the area includes mountain goats traversing the higher elevations to squirrels and black bears in the forests. Migratory birds and native fish find ample habitat in the varied ecosystems as well. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 932-0242.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors enjoy hiking, picnicking and photography in the Heather Meadows area located along the upper reaches of the Mt. Baker Scenic Byway, SR 542. Many popular hikes and climbing routes are located in the surrounding Mt. Baker Wilderness and backpackers enjoy visiting the northern reaches of North Cascades National Park.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
This is not Silver Springs Campground near Mt. Rainier National Park.
Note: For all purchases made at the campground, including first-come, first-served campsites, sundries, firewood, extra vehicle parking, etc., only US currency will be accepted.
Extra Vehicles: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per single tent site. Two RVs with tow vehicle per double site or two vehicles per double tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. A fee of $12/extra vehicle per night must be paid for upon arrival by cash or check only.
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Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site may be forfeited and released to other guests.
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
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 Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest has a Food Storage Order in effect. All food and refuse must be acceptably stored (in a hard sided vehicle or trailer, food storage locker, or certified bear resistant container) or acceptably possessed (attended to by a person who is physically present).
Click here for more information about Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20 · 4 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 77 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…rings with grills are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. No electrical hookups are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. No electrical hookups are available. Groceries,…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Meadow
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 346th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 18 of the 20 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
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What you actually pay
“A fee of $12/extra vehicle per night must be paid for upon arrival by cash or check only.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $32–$64 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.
“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · this campground’s own 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
21 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 21 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 17 of the 21 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SILV | 001 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | 110 ft | 126 ft | $32–$64 | |
| SILV | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 110 ft | 235 ft | $32 | ||
| SILV | 003 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 132 ft | 205 ft | $32–$64 | |
| SILV | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 136 ft | 161 ft | $32–$64 |
| SILV | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 136 ft | 142 ft | $32 | |
| SILV | 006 | type not stated | 30 ft | ||||
| SILV | 007 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | $32–$64 | |||
| SILV | 008 | type not stated | 37 ft | 164 ft | |||
| SILV | 010 | type not stated | 45 ft | ||||
| SILV | 011 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 113 ft | 184 ft | $32–$64 | |
| SILV | 012 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 106 ft | 168 ft | $32–$64 | |
| SILV | 013 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 106 ft | 185 ft | $32–$64 | |
| SILV | 014 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | $32–$64 | |||
| SILV | 015 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 51 ft | 90 ft | $32–$64 | |
| SILV | 016 | tent only nonelectric | 51 ft | 63 ft | $32 | ||
| SILV | 017 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 60 ft | 68 ft | $32–$64 | |
| SILV | 018 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 78 ft | 65 ft | $32–$64 | |
| SILV | 019 | tent only nonelectric | 56 ft | 90 ft | 99 ft | $32 | |
| SILV | 020 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | $32–$64 | |||
| SILV | 021 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 175 ft | 172 ft | $32–$64 | |
| SILV | Day Use | day use | $55 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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 · the phone number
Where it is
Excelsior Group CampMt. Baker National Forest · 5.7 mi
Douglas Fir CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 9.8 mi
Park Creek CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 12 mi
Shannon Creek CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 12 mi
Swift Creek CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 12 mi
Panorama Point CampgroundMt. Baker National Forest · 12 miFrom Seattle, Washington, go north on I-5 to Bellingham. Take exit 255 onto Sunset Drive/Mt. Baker Highway SR 542. Continue on SR 542 past the town of Glacier near mile 33 and continue approximately 12.5 miles to the campground. The campground is on the right (west) side of the highway after crossing the bridge over the North Fork Nooksack River.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Glacier, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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
Silver Fir Campground is in Washington’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Rick Larsen (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →