U.S. Forest Service · Colville National Forest · WA

Swan Lake Campground

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 28 mi
Wildfire
Kaiser Canyon fire · 28 mi away · 138,293 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 13, 2026
Wildfire
Mingo Meadow fire · 36 mi away · 3 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Right now
OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
Season
May 17 – October 28Open May 17 through October 28
Drawn from the record · 3,700 ft · 66% tree cover · Swan Lake within reach · Bortle 2 sky
3,700 ftElevation
549 ftWater · Swan Lake
30 miE of Omak, WA
66%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 17th darkest of 400 in WA
Open May 17 through October 28Today

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Swan Lake Campground is located in a beautiful mixed pine setting approximately 14 miles south and west of Republic, Washington. Access to the campground is via State Route 21 and paved Forest Road 53 (Scatter Creek). The campground 26 campsites with a mix of back-in and pull-through sites that will accommodate everything from the smallest tent to the largest RV. The lakeshore loop will accommodate up to moderate size trailers and RVs and all provide lakeshore views. The non-lakeshore loop include all of the campground's pull-through sites. Each site is accessed by a paved road, but most parking spurs are gravel. Keep reading

Campsites include a table and fire ring and easy access to bear-resistant garbage containers, pressurized water spigots, and outhouses. There are four walk-in tent sites that sit on a bench above the lake. The campground includes a swim beach with swim dock, a fishing dock, a boat launch with additional boat trailer parking, and a small day-use picnic area with four tables. Swan Lake Loop trail can be accessed on either the north or south ends of the lake and provide access to good fishing and swimming holes. The campground also provides access to the Swan Lake Kitchen Group Campsite. Local wildlife include deer, moose, squirrels, chipmunks, loons, eagles, osprey and a variety of song birds. Huckleberry picking is popular from late June through July.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Drinking water
Yes
“…garbage containers, pressurized water spigots, and outhouses. There are four walk-in tent sites…”
Boat ramp
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Creek, Beach
Source: Stated in the agency description

Phone before you drive

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
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
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note

“Camping: $8/single site Group Camping : $35/group site (Reservation only) with a one time transaction fee of $10 Extra Vehicle: $2/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
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight38°Partly Cloudy3% rain
Saturday57°Partly Sunny3% rain
Saturday Night30°Mostly Clear then Widespread Frost
Sunday54°Widespread Frost then Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Republic, WA

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Cougar Mountain4,525 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Michael Baumgartner, official portrait

Swan Lake Campground is in Washington’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Michael Baumgartner (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

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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.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 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: Republic, WA, 9.6 mi SSW. Straight line.