Takhlakh Lake Campground
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $25–$45Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 54All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Takhlakh Lake Campground sits at an elevation of 4,400 feet in a well-shaded location next to its namesake lake. The campground sits at the base of Mt. Adams, providing visitors with incredible views in every direction. The campground has a short season, but it's a particularly popular destination for hikers exploring the trails around Mt. Adams. Keep reading
Recreation
The campsite offers access to the Takhlakh Loop, an accessible trail suitable for all ages and skill levels and the Takhlakh Meadow Trail. The lake provides an ideal spot for anglers to cast for rainbow trout and for boaters looking to kayak or canoe. The lake is reserved for non-motorized use only.
Facilities
The campground consists of 54 back-in sites with unpaved parking spurs that vary in length from 15 to 40 feet. Some sites are tent only. No drinking water is provided at this campground, but other amenities include vault toilets, picnic tables and campfire rings. Takhlakh Lake Campground offers accessible sites and activities and amenities that support current accessibility standards.
Natural Features
Takhlakh Lake is part of the Cowlitz Valley Ranger District, which is located in the northernmost portion of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. This location offers breathtaking views of not only Mt. Adams, but also Mt. Rainier, and Mt. Saint Helens. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (360) 686-3008 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Near the campground, hikers can access trailheads for the 2,663-mile Pacific Crest Trail. This leads to the Highline Trail, which attracts experienced hikers and backpackers for its views of Mt. Rainier, Mount St. Helens and Oregon's Mt. Hood.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
Check in: 2 pm, Check out: 12 pm (noon)
No potable water, bring your own drinking water
ATVs and OHVs are not allowed in the campground
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Click here for more information about Gifford Pinchot National Forest
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.
Extra vehicle fee of $8.00/night of stay .
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 54 · 10 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campground, but other amenities include vault toilets, picnic tables and campfire rings. Takhlakh Lake…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…15 to 40 feet. Some sites are tent only. No drinking water is provided at this campground, but other amenities…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Night sky · 129th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 8 days ago, 15 km away
- Patchy color
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
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One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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Tell me when the season opens
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicle Fee $8.00” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$45 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.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show 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
54 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 54 mapped sitesAll 54 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 54 of the 54 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. 54 of the 54 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 93 ft | 102 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 56 ft | 81 ft | 189 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 56 ft | 41 ft | 209 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 67 ft | 239 ft | 377 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 67 ft | 209 ft | 356 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 279 ft | 295 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 219 ft | 252 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 47 ft | 268 ft | 190 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 81 ft | 341 ft | 114 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 67 ft | 361 ft | 112 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 41 ft | 383 ft | 147 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 54 ft | 408 ft | 212 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 41 ft | 392 ft | 172 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 65 ft | 366 ft | 231 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 65 ft | 431 ft | 261 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 67 ft | 435 ft | 99 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 67 ft | 376 ft | 148 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 55 ft | 413 ft | 55 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 55 ft | 359 ft | 94 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 51 ft | 375 ft | 155 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 51 ft | 324 ft | 181 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 38 ft | 382 ft | 152 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 38 ft | 344 ft | 137 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 35 ft | 394 ft | 110 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 35 ft | 366 ft | 76 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 50 ft | 404 ft | 87 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 62 ft | 367 ft | 52 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 49 ft | 287 ft | 35 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 32 ft | 266 ft | 78 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 56 ft | 241 ft | 141 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 32 ft | 290 ft | 81 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 56 ft | 224 ft | 196 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 32 ft | 190 ft | 271 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 034 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 32 ft | 219 ft | 239 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 035 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 29 ft | 206 ft | 240 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 036 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 29 ft | 178 ft | 269 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 037 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 40 ft | 225 ft | 228 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 038 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 40 ft | 186 ft | 241 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 039 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 48 ft | 186 ft | 158 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 040 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 48 ft | 234 ft | 151 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 041 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 39 ft | 203 ft | 71 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 042 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 39 ft | 241 ft | 66 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 043 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 99 ft | 222 ft | 71 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 044 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 47 ft | 224 ft | 166 ft | $25–$45 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 045 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 35 ft | 304 ft | 231 ft | $25 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 046 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 35 ft | 291 ft | 252 ft | $25 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 047 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 52 ft | 254 ft | 198 ft | $25 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 048 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 51 ft | 217 ft | 310 ft | $25 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 049 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 37 ft | 217 ft | 359 ft | $25 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 050 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 32 ft | 235 ft | 395 ft | $25 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 051 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 32 ft | 261 ft | 420 ft | $25 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 052 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 32 ft | 289 ft | 416 ft | $25 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 053 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 36 ft | 303 ft | 378 ft | $25 |
| AREA TAKHLAKH LAKE CAMPGROUND | 054 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 36 ft | 281 ft | 343 ft | $25 |
25 of 54 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Olallie Lake CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 1.3 mi
Horseshoe Lake CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 2.5 mi
Killen Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 2.6 mi
Adams Fork CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 4.6 miTwin Falls CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.6 mi
Blue Lake Creek Campground - Gifford Pinchot NF (WA)Gifford Pinchot National Forest · 11 miFrom I-5: Take exit 68 and head east on US Highway 12 to Randle, Washington. Turn south onto State Highway 131 and travel 1 mile, stay left at the Y and continue southeast on Forest Road 23 for 30 miles to Forest Road 2329. Turn left onto Forest Road 2329 and follow it through the junction with Forest Road 5601. Proceed on Forest Road 2329 for 3/4-mile to the campground.
The last 7 miles of Forest Road 23 are gravel surfaced.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Trout Lake, WA
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Takhlakh Lake Campground is in Washington’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: C. See every public-lands vote →