U.S. Forest Service · Okanogan National Forest · WA
Sugarloaf Campground
1Heads up1 fire 7.6 mi away
Wildfire
Sinlahekin fire · 7.6 mi away · 166,007 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 15, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 15, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Season
- April 1 – October 27Open April 1 through October 27
2,340 ftElevation
212 ftWater · Sugarloaf Lake
11.6 miNW of Omak, WA
61%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 73rd darkest of 400 in WA
Open April 1 through October 27Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This campground is adjacent to Sugarloaf Lake. There are 4 single campsites available with picnic tables and fire rings. A vault toilet facility is available. No water or garbage service on site.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with picnic tables and fire rings. A vault toilet facility is available. No water or garbage service…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…A vault toilet facility is available. No water or garbage service on site.”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 20 km away
- Patchy color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (20 km) · Oct 13, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
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
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note
“Camping: $10/single site Extra Vehicle: $5/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 hereSugarloaf Campground (WA)Okanogan National Forest · 0.0 miOriole CampgroundOkanogan National Forest · 3.7 miKerr CampgroundOkanogan National Forest · 4.3 miSalmon Meadows CampgroundOkanogan National Forest · 7.9 miTiffany Springs CampgroundOkanogan National Forest · 14 miLoup Loup CampgroundOkanogan National Forest · 17 mi
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today60°Mostly Sunny
Tonight44°Partly Cloudy1% rain
Saturday59°Partly Sunny1% rain
Saturday Night34°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Conconully, WA
Source: National Weather Service, OTX forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 61°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 32°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
90°32°10°
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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.
Measured at: WINTHROP 1 WSW, WA (USC00459376), 24 miles away and 591 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Sugarloaf Campground is in Washington’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Dan Newhouse (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: The agency lists it open right now. Its own recreation 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 (20 km) · Oct 13, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported patchy color · Oct 13, 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: Conconully, WA, 3.2 mi NE. Straight line.