U.S. Forest Service · Gifford Pinchot National Forest · WA
Tillicum Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 23 mi
Wildfire
High Lava fire · 23 mi away · 2,899 acres · 95% contained · updated Oct 8, 2026
Wildfire
Mckinley fire · 37 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 14, 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
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $10From, per site
3,870 ftElevation
2,091 ftWater · an unnamed pond
25.2 miN of Carson, WA
79%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 180th darkest of 400 in WA
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
A higher elevation, wooded campground especially popular during huckleberry season as this site is located in a part of the forest with many huckleberry bushes. Tillicum Trail #21 leads out of the campground.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- Fall color · reported 8 days ago, 21 km away
- Patchy color
Source: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (21 km) · Oct 8, 2026
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 15, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$10Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$10
Night$10
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 a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$10
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$20
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
Sign price: Derived by CAMPANAC from the U.S. Forest Service fee record: a stated per-night amount only · Sep 7, 2026
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
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 here
Lower Falls CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.3 mi
Cultus Creek CG (WA) Gifford Pinchot NFGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.3 mi
Cultus Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.4 mi
Lewis River HC (WA) Gifford Pinchot NFGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.5 miTwin Falls CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 8.3 miTrout Lake Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 9.3 mi
Lower Falls CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.3 miCultus Creek CG (WA) Gifford Pinchot NFGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.3 miCultus Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.4 miLewis River HC (WA) Gifford Pinchot NFGifford Pinchot National Forest · 5.5 miTwin Falls CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 8.3 miTrout Lake Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 9.3 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight47°Partly Cloudy
Friday63°Mostly Sunny
Friday Night44°Mostly Cloudy then Chance Light Rain30% rain
Saturday49°Chance Light Rain then Mostly Cloudy43% rain
NWS forecast for Trout Lake, WA
Source: National Weather Service, PQR forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
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.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 9, 2026
Who answers for this land
Tillicum 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
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
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 (21 km) · Oct 8, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported patchy color · Oct 8, 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: Trout Lake, WA, 12.4 mi NW (a census designated place). Straight line.