Snowberry Bowl Campground
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:45 UTC
- A night
- $15–$30When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 9In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
The forested drive to this campground is a beautiful visual of a fire resilient ecosystem with views of the surrounding mountains that tower above. Snowberry Bowl is nicely tucked in the 25 Mile Creek Drainage away from the busy town of Chelan but close to the Lake and recreational activities. There are seven single tent sites and two small group/RV sites, all of which have fire rings and picnic tables. The group/RV sites can accommodate up to a 25-foot trailer. No hook-ups are available at any of the sites. Keep reading
A group shelter containing four picnic tables may be accessed via barrier-free trails near both group/RV sites. The group shelter is available to all campers on a first come/first serve basis. Potable water and dumpsters for garbage service are provided for users of the campground during the open season. There are three vault toilets on site. Campers must pay for every night they occupy a campsite in Snowberry Bowl campground.
Recreation
Hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, dirt biking, and playing in the water on Lake Chelan top the list of recreational activities in the area. The Pot Peak, North Fork 25 Mile Creek, and Box Canyon trails are a short drive from the campground and are open to most activities. Lake Chelan is the big draw for the area and provides campers with access to the third deepest lake in the United States. Whether it's fishing, paddle boarding, kayaking, or swimming Lake Chelan is a beautiful place to recreate on the water.
Facilities
Lake Creek Campground offers seven sites that accommodate tents and two group/RV camp sites, however hookups are not available. There is a group picnic shelter that is first come, first served. A solar pump is on site for fresh water and dumpsters are located on site. Three CXT vault toilets are available.
Natural Features
The Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest offers stunning scenic vistas, with high, glaciated alpine peaks, valleys of old growth forest and rugged shrub-steppe country making up the diverse landscape. Elevations range from below 1,000 feet to more than 9,000 feet. Visitors can expect many days of warm, sunny weather in the summer, and winters with clear skies and plenty of snow. The surrounding area is a beautiful visual of a fire resilient ecosystem and provides excellent habitat for a wide range of wildlife including mule deer, cougars, native fish, black bears, pine marten, moose, bald and golden eagles and a variety of woodpeckers and owls. The short drive to Lake Chelan gives campers great access to the natural beauty and recreational opportunities the lake provides. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (509) 682-4900.
Nearby Attractions
Hundreds of miles of multiple use trails are accessible from nearby trailheads. Lake Chelan provides amazing access to campers who want to recreate on the water. The town of Chelan is a 35 minute drive and provides multiple options for dining and recreation.
What the agency tells you
This campsite is first come, first served. All visitors are required to display payment confirmation for their overnight campsite use.
When purchasing onsite, please have the Recreation.gov app downloaded prior to arrival. Once purchased take two red payment confirmation cards and write down the confirmation number and dates of stay. Place one on the vehicle dashboard and one on the site post marker for the duration of the stay.
This pass is valid until checkout time at 12:00 PM on the check-out date listed on the pass, and only for the dates specified on the pass.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Passes are non-transferable between campsites, individuals/groups, and are non-refundable.
Parking outside of designated areas is prohibited and visitors who park illegally may be fined and towed.
Cell phone connectivity on the forest may be limited, plan ahead.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9 · 7 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…during the open season. There are three vault toilets on site. Campers must pay for every night they…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…on a first come/first serve basis. Potable water and dumpsters for garbage service are provided for…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Paddling
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:45 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
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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 Snowberry Bowl Campground 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.
recreation.gov availability, read 15:45 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
9 sites
All 9 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. 9 of the 9 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Snowberry Bowl | 1 | tent only nonelectric | $15 |
| Snowberry Bowl | 2 | tent only nonelectric | $15 |
| Snowberry Bowl | 3 | tent only nonelectric | $15 |
| Snowberry Bowl | 4 | tent only nonelectric | $15 |
| Snowberry Bowl | 5 | tent only nonelectric | $15 |
| Snowberry Bowl | 6 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Snowberry Bowl | 7 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Snowberry Bowl | 8 | tent only nonelectric | $15 |
| Snowberry Bowl | 9 | tent only nonelectric | $15 |