Three Creek Group Site - Okanogan-Wenatchee NF
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 11 mi
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:34 UTC
- Sites
- 1In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Three Creek Group Campground sits in forested, mountain terrain on the banks of the Entiat River in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in the Entiat Ranger District. Fishing is allowed on this stretch of the river and hiking/motorized trails are nearby. Keep reading
Recreation
Three Creek Campground is a great base camp for a variety of outdoor recreational activities. Anglers enjoy casting a line into the Entiat River near the campground on the stretch of the river above Entiat Falls. Carving through a wide, U-shaped valley, the river is dominated by relatively shallow riffles interspersed with pools, plunge pools and glides where the trout fishing is quite good. Populations of rainbow, cutthroat and eastern brook trout are found in this tributary. Selective gear rules apply to fishing in the Entiat River. See Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for fishing rules and regulations. Hiking and motorized trails are nearby that can take you into high meadows or along the river into the Glacier Peak wilderness.
Facilities
Three Creek Campground is a reservable group site with three separate tent/or trailer areas. It is and equipped with picnic tables, campfire rings, dumpster and accessible vault toilets.
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. The surrounding forest provides excellent habitat for a wide range of wildlife. Visitors may catch glimpses of mule deer, elk, bald and golden eagles and a variety of woodpeckers and owls. Visitors can expect many days of warm, sunny weather in the summer, and winters with clear skies and plenty of snow.
Nearby Attractions
Silver Falls National Scenic Trail provides a one and a half mile loop hike to a large waterfall. Hundreds of miles of multiple use trails are accessible from nearby trailheads. Entiat National Fish Hatchery is at mile six on the Entiat River Road and welcomes visitors in the summer. The tourist destinations of Chelan and Leavenworth are a relatively short drive away.
What the agency tells you
Smaller group site- Can only accomodate ~ 30 and ~ 10 vehicles.
Electric hookups are not available
Fishing is allowed near the campground. Fishing is only allowed starting at 2.7 miles above the Entiat Falls on the Entiat River. Selective gear rules apply to fishing in the Entiat River. See Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for fishing rules and regulations.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Additional first-come, first-served sites are available nearby in Cottonwood Campground.
Hand pumps for water are available at nearby campgrounds.
Off-road vehicles prohibited in campground
Chainsaw use not permitted in campground.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 28 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire rings, dumpster and accessible vault toilets. Natural Features The Okanogan-Wenatchee National…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, River, Creek, Meadow
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Mountain biking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 90th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 30 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:34 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
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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 Three Creek Group Site - Okanogan-Wenatchee NF 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.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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- Purple Point CampgroundLake Chelan National Recreation Area · 21 mi · walk-up · 6 sites
- Gorge Lake CampgroundNorth Cascades National Park · 55 mi · 8 sites
- Goodell Creek CampgroundRoss Lake National Recreation Area · 55 mi · 19 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 15:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites
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.
| Three Creek | Three Creek Group Site | group standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $40 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cottonwood CabinWenatchee National Forest · 1.6 miCottonwood Campground - Entiat Ranger DistrictWenatchee National Forest · 1.8 miNorth Fork CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 2.1 mi
Silver Falls Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 4.8 mi
Lake Creek Campground - Entiat RiverWenatchee National Forest · 6.8 miFrom Entiat, turn west on to Entiat River Road (County Road #19) and travel 36 miles up the Entiat River Road to Three Creeks Group Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Manson, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 51°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 17°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
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.
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
Three Creek Group Site - Okanogan-Wenatchee NF is in Washington’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Kim Schrier (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →