Swan Lake Kitchen
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- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
A variety of activities await visitors at the open air Swan Lake Kitchen. Located within the Swan Lake Campground, the group site is situated on a large, flat open space near the beach. The kitchen itself is located up the hill from the beach in the trees. The kitchen is accessible via a staircase from the parking area and a path from the beach. A day of swimming, boating, fishing or hiking can be topped off with a trip to the kitchen to wind down and enjoy a group meal. Originally built in 1936 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, the site was historically preserved in 2009 and retains its charming historic character. Keep reading
Recreation
Swan Lake has a sandy beach with a swimming dock, plus access to the Swan Lake Trail #14. The trail boasts views of the lake and seasonal huckleberries. Wildlife watching is excellent and the lake is home to loons throughout most of the summer.
Facilities
The covered kitchen comes with several picnic tables, a campfire ring, a stone fireplace, drinking water, vault toilets and garbage containers. The site is suited to groups of 35.
Natural Features
At an elevation of 3,640 feet, Swan Lake Kitchen is located in a wooded area overlooking the 52-acre Swan Lake. The kitchen is on the north end of the lake near the swimming beach. The 1.1 million acre Colville National Forest lies in the northeast corner of Washington. The forest's great salmon runs first attracted native Americans to the area, then miners, homesteaders and fur trappers followed. The variety of resources and natural beauty in the region continues to attract visitors.
Nearby Attractions
The Republic Ranger Station and the Stonerose Interpretive Center are 15 miles north in the town of Repbulic.
What the agency tells you
Entry is by combination lock on the gate to the access road to the site. Once the combination has been entered, you must push the lock shank down into the base of the lock before the locking mechanism will release. The combination will be included in your confirmation letter. You may also obtain the combination by calling the Republic Ranger District Office at (509) 775-7400.
No internal combustion motor boats allowed on Swan Lake.
Bears and cougars frequent the area; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating
Everything else this campground posts · 4
There are no electric site hookups at this facility
For more information on Colville National Forest, click here
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.
Swan Lake Trail #14 passes through the group site along the lakeshore. Users of the group site should expect other forest visitors to hike or bike along the lakeshore edge of the group site as they make their way around the lake. The trail is posted asking users to be quiet and respectful as they pass through the group site meadow and by the lake access area.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group, 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…ring, a stone fireplace, drinking water, vault toilets and garbage containers. The site is suited to…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…a campfire ring, a stone fireplace, drinking water, vault toilets and garbage containers. The site is…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Berry Picking
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Mushroom Picking
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Paddle Boating
- Night sky · 18th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 2
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Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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 →
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rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SWAN LAKE KITCHEN | Swan Lake Kitchen | group shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | 445 ft | $55 |
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
Ferry Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 1.3 mi
Long Lake CampgroundColville National Forest · 1.7 miTen Mile Campground4.6 mi
Snow Peak CabinColville National Forest · 16 miCrawfish LakeOkanogan National Forest · 18 miFrom Seattle take Highway 2 east to Wenatchee, Highway 97 north to Tonasket, then Highway 20 east to Republic. From Republic take Highway 21 south seven miles to paved Forest Road 53 (Scatter Creek). Travel on FR 53 approximately seven miles to the entrance of Swan Lake Campground. The kitchen area is located at the far end of the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
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
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Swan Lake Kitchen 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 →