Tinkham Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 14 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $32–$34Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4645 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Tinkham Campground is located along the South Fork Snoqualmie River in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. It offers some of the most stunning scenery in Washington's North Cascades, as well as easy access to an abundance of recreational activities. Keep reading
Recreation
The surrounding area is a prime location for hiking, fishing, picnicking and horseback riding in summer and early fall. In winter, visitors can take advantage of skiing and snowshoeing opportunities. A handful of hiking trails lie within a short driving distance, making Tinkham an ideal setting for both individual and family camping excursions. The 0.5-mile Tinkham Discovery Trail is an easy, family-friendly nature path. It weaves through fallen, moss-covered trees to a small pond. Children love investigating the insects, wildflowers and fungi along the trail.
Facilities
Tinkham Campground offers single-family sites, a few of which are accessible. Picnic tables, food storage lockers, and campfire rings with grills are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. No electrical hookups are available.
Natural Features
The campground sits alongside the river, in a towering canopy of Douglas fir, cedar and western hemlock, providing abundant shade. Rugged peaks, scenic rivers and abundant wildlife define the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and surrounding designated wilderness areas. On a clear day visitors can see Mt. Baker, which rises to an elevation of 10,781 feet. The active volcano is perpetually snow-capped. Mt. Baker's summit, Grant Peak, is actually a 1,300-foot-deep mound of ice, which hides a massive volcanic crater. Wildlife in the area ranges from mountain goats in the higher elevations to coyotes and pine martens in the forests. Migratory birds and native fish find ample habitat in the varied ecosystems as well. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 932-0242.
Nearby Attractions
Mount Rainier National Park is about an hour away. This beautiful park offers fantastic glimpses of glaciers, subalpine ecology and volcanic landscapes. Hiking and scenic driving are the area's most popular activities.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
Potable water is available from a hand pump, however its color and taste are affected by mineral content. We suggest bringing your own drinking water.
Extra Vehicles: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per single tent site. Two RVs with tow vehicle per double site or two vehicles per double tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. A fee of $12/extra vehicle per night must be paid for upon arrival by cash or check only.
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
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Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site may be forfeited and released to other guests.
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
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.
The Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest has a Food Storage Order in effect. All food and refuse must be acceptably stored (in a hard sided vehicle or trailer, food storage locker, or certified bear resistant container) or acceptably possessed (attended to by a person who is physically present).
Click here for more information about Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Conditions along the graveled road to the campground can be variable due to heavy use, weather, and periodic maintenance. We recommend accessing the campground from I-90 Exit 42 (Tinkham Road).
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 46 · 3 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 46 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…rings with grills are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. No electrical hookups are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. No electrical hookups are available. Natural…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 385th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 45 of the 46 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
“A fee of $12/extra vehicle per night must be paid for upon arrival by cash or check only.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $32–$34 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.
“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · this campground’s own 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
51 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 45 mapped sitesAll 51 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 46 of the 51 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. 43 of the 51 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| TINK | 001 | type not stated | 26 ft | 180 ft | 258 ft | $30 | ||
| TINK | 002 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 49 ft | 296 ft | 441 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 49 ft | 329 ft | 444 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 48 ft | 355 ft | 375 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 48 ft | 306 ft | 345 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 49 ft | 394 ft | 313 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 007 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 49 ft | 347 ft | 277 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 008 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 63 ft | 400 ft | 279 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 009 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 63 ft | 342 ft | 226 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 296 ft | 193 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 011 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 86 ft | 212 ft | 135 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 182 ft | 130 ft | 63 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 54 ft | 129 ft | 244 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 016 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 48 ft | 114 ft | 297 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 017 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 48 ft | 69 ft | 278 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 018 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 84 ft | 53 ft | 284 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 019 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 84 ft | 30 ft | 201 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 020 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 113 ft | 30 ft | 88 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 021 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 156 ft | 179 ft | 156 ft | $32–$34 |
| TINK | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 96 ft | under 10 ft | 89 ft | $32–$34 |
| TINK | 023 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 70 ft | 195 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 93 ft | under 10 ft | 173 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 025 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 78 ft | 103 ft | 271 ft | ||
| TINK | 025A | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 92 ft | 139 ft | 277 ft | ||
| TINK | 026 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 91 ft | under 10 ft | 246 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 027 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 94 ft | 50 ft | 350 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 028 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 36 ft | 215 ft | 187 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 029 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 57 ft | 156 ft | 233 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 030 | tent only nonelectric | 22 ft | 36 ft | 234 ft | 158 ft | ||
| TINK | 031 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 57 ft | 182 ft | 191 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 032 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 77 ft | 265 ft | 60 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 033 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 60 ft | 180 ft | 147 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 034 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 60 ft | 184 ft | 146 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 035 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 281 ft | 105 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 036 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 54 ft | 334 ft | 90 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 037 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 51 ft | 377 ft | 65 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 038 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 51 ft | 342 ft | 17 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 039 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 47 ft | 405 ft | 80 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 040 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 55 ft | 367 ft | 67 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 041 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 47 ft | 419 ft | 111 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 042 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 64 ft | 356 ft | 129 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 043 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 403 ft | 170 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 044 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 357 ft | 249 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 045 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 69 ft | 317 ft | 196 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 046 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 89 ft | 317 ft | 318 ft | $32–$34 | |
| TINK | 047 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 89 ft | 228 ft | 239 ft | $32–$34 | |
| Tinkham Campground | XXX14 | unnamed record | $30 | |||||
| Tinkham Campground | XXX15 | unnamed record | $30 | |||||
| Tinkham Campground | XXX16 | unnamed record | $30 | |||||
| Tinkham Campground | XXX17 | unnamed record | $30 | |||||
| Tinkham Campground | XXX18 | unnamed record | $30 |
The agency files 5 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Denny Creek CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 5.9 mi
Middle Fork CampgroundSnoqualmie National Forest · 10 mi
KachessWenatchee National Forest · 16 mi
East Kachess Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 17 miEast Kachess Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 17 miOwhi CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 19 miFrom Seattle, Washington, go east on I-90 to Exit 42. Turn south and go approximately 1 mile to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Snoqualmie Pass, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 31°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Tinkham Campground 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 →