Silver Springs Campground
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $37–$80Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 49All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Silver Springs Campground is situated on the banks of the scenic White River in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, just outside Mt. Rainier National Park's North Arch entrance. Silver Springs offers visitors stunning scenery and access to a multitude of recreational activities. Keep reading
Recreation
The White River sustains populations of salmon and trout, making it a great spot for fishing. A natural spring flows through the campground as well. Hiking and climbing top the list of recreational activities in the surrounding area. The 0.5-mile, accessible John Muir Nature Trail begins at nearby Dalles Campground. Visitors enjoy gazing up the "Big Tree," at an old-growth Douglas fir tree inside Dalles. This giant measures 9.5 feet in diameter and is over 700 years old. The tree stands at the beginning of the Dalles River View Trail, originating at the west end of the campground loop. Local Crystal Mountain Trail begins about five miles southwest of the campground. It climbs 1,600 feet in elevation through clear-cut areas and second-growth forest before breaking out to expansive views of the White River Valley and Mt. Rainier. The trail continues to climb along the ridge, showcasing wildflowers in early June and huckleberries in early August.
Facilities
Silver Springs Campground offers both standard and accessible sites and accommodates tents or RVs. A group picnic shelter is also available. Picnic tables and campfire rings with grills are provided, as are flush and vault toilets and drinking water. No electrical hookups are available.
Natural Features
The campground's widely-spaced sites are scattered in a beautiful section of old-growth forest, where many sit on the banks of the White River, which is sourced by flowing water from ice caves at the base of Emmons Glacier on Mt. Rainier. The Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest showcases rugged peaks, sparkling alpine lakes and old-growth forests. Several designated wilderness areas surround the forest. Mt. Rainier, the highest peak in Washington and the Cascades Range, dominates the landscape on clear days. The volcano rises to an elevation of 14,411 feet and is perpetually snow-capped, boasting a total of 36-square miles of snowfields and glaciers. Wildlife in the area ranges from mountain goats in the higher elevations to porcupines and pine martens in the forests. Migratory birds and native fish find ample habitat in the varied ecosystems.
Nearby Attractions
Mount Rainier National Park offers fantastic glimpses of glaciers, subalpine ecology and volcanic landscapes. Hiking trails and scenic drives crisscross the park. Visit or stay in one of the historic lookouts in the area. Lookouts are tangible symbols of Forest Service heritage, perched on high peaks with unobstructed views where they have been used throughout the years to detect fires in remote forest lands. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 932-0242.
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
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.
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.
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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
- 49
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 46 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…grills are provided, as are flush and vault toilets and drinking water. No electrical hookups are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…as are flush and vault toilets and drinking water. No electrical hookups are available. Natural…”
- 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
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 337th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
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
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, $37–$80 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
51 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 48 mapped sitesAll 51 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 50 of the 51 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 49 of the 51 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
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.
| SILV | 001 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $37–$80 | ||||
| SILV | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 104 ft | 390 ftWhite River | 355 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 003 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 104 ft | 296 ftWhite River | 446 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 122 ft | 223 ftWhite River | 366 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 005 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 122 ft | 176 ftWhite River | 319 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 006 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 105 ft | 272 ftWhite River | 225 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 007 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 139 ft | 136 ftWhite River | 169 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 105 ft | 275 ftWhite River | 129 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 009 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 139 ft | 140 ftWhite River | 70 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 011 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 186 ft | 54 ftWhite River | 536 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 012 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 166 ft | 265 ftWhite River | 449 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 013 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 166 ft | 165 ftWhite River | 608 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 014 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 173 ft | 406 ftWhite River | 531 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 016 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 188 ft | 413 ftWhite River | 323 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 96 ft | 569 ftWhite River | 389 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 018 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 88 ft | 596 ftWhite River | 298 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 019 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 60 ft | 589 ftWhite River | 211 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 020 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 60 ft | 575 ftWhite River | 152 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 386 ftWhite River | 164 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 560 ftWhite River | 64 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 023 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 68 ft | 388 ftWhite River | 147 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 024 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 68 ft | 395 ftWhite River | 167 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 79 ft | 451 ftWhite River | 194 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 473 ftWhite River | 250 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 028 HOST | host pad | 20 ft | 458 ftWhite River | 318 ft | |||
| SILV | 029 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 139 ft | 501 ft | 307 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 121 ft | 271 ft | 600 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 031 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 71 ft | 121 ft | 728 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 032 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 71 ft | 73 ft | 791 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 033 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 91 ft | 332 ftWhite River | 1,127 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 034 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 91 ft | 304 ftWhite River | 1,061 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 035 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 152 ft | 227 ftWhite River | 756 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 036 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 46 ft | 88 ftWhite River | 911 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 037 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 46 ft | 116 ftWhite River | 904 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 038 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 81 ft | 78 ftWhite River | 974 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 039 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 128 ft | 53 ftWhite River | 1,100 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 040/41 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 49 ft | 41 ftWhite River | 1,206 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 042 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 49 ft | 89 ftWhite River | 1,183 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 043/44 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 109 ft | 397 ftWhite River | 631 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 045 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 500 ftWhite River | 578 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 046 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 527 ftWhite River | 631 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 047 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 57 ft | 486 ftWhite River | 741 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 048/49 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 57 ft | 446 ftWhite River | 743 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 050 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 130 ft | 442 ft | 1,026 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 051 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 177 ft | 212 ft | 1,029 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 052 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 82 ft | 23 ft | 848 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 053 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 74 ft | 41 ft | 776 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 054 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 74 ft | 99 ft | 727 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 055 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 67 ft | 207 ft | 611 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | 056 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 67 ft | 266 ft | 562 ft | $37–$80 | |
| SILV | GROUP DAY USE | day use | yes | 181 ftWhite River | 260 ft | $60 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it files as day use and 1 it names a host pad. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 51 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Dalles CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 5.4 mi
The Dalles CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 6.3 mi
White River CampgroundMount Rainier National Park · 8.2 mi
Lodgepole Campground (Washington)Snoqualmie National Forest · 8.8 mi
Pleasant Valley CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 10 miSalmon Cove Group CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 11 miFrom Enumclaw, Washington, drive approximately 33 miles southeast on State Highway 410 toward Mount Rainier National Park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Greenwater, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 25°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 Springs Campground 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 →