Walupt Lake Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 33 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25–$45Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 42All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Walupt Lake Campground offers scenic views of Mt. Adams and the surrounding forest on the west end of Walupt Lake. The sites here provide plenty of privacy and ample shade form the surrounding hemlock, cedar and fir trees. Walupt Lake Campground is a great choice for visitors looking to fish, swim, boat or explore the numerous hiking, biking and horseback riding trails in the area. Keep reading
Recreation
Anglers can fish for brook, rainbow and cutthroat trout in Walupt Lake. Swimming and the use of motorized and non-motorized boats is also permitted. Numerous trailheads can be accessed from this campground. Walupt Lake Trail, Nannie Ridge Trail and Coleman Weedpatch Trail are popular hiking and equestrian trails.
Facilities
Walupt Lake Campground offers some tent-only sites, but standard sites have gravel spurs that can accommodate RVs between 20-40 feet. Each walk-in tent site along the lake shore has a small beach area. Campsites include picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets are provided on the premises. A horse camp is adjacent to this campground.
Natural Features
Walupt Lake spans 384 acres and is the second largest lake in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The clear mountain waters are popular with anglers who come here to cast for Rainbow and Cutthroat Trout. This campground is surrounded by the Goat Rocks Wilderness, named for the rugged peaks where numerous mountain goats are found. Scattered throughout the area are alpine meadows, lakes and ponds. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (360) 686-3008 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Walupt Lake's location between Mt. Adams, Mt. Rainier and Mount St. Helens makes it possible to explore any of these areas on a day trip.
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)
ATTENTION: There is no longer potable water available at Walupt Lake Campground. Please plan on bringing your own water.
Horses prohibited except in designated horse camps
Everything else this campground posts · 5
No OHVs or ATVs allowed in the campground
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
- 42 · 15 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets are provided on the premises. A horse camp is…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach, Meadow
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 133rd darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 30 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
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.
Every line of the receipt · 16
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
42 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 42 mapped sitesAll 42 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 42 of the 42 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. 42 of the 42 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Main Loop | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 127 ft | 186 ftWalupt Creek | 322 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 99 ft | 282 ftWalupt Creek | 216 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 116 ft | 179 ftWalupt Creek | 352 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 309 ftWalupt Creek | 226 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 116 ft | 201 ftWalupt Creek | 419 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 39 ft | 340 ftWalupt Creek | 304 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 023 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 39 ft | 377 ftWalupt Creek | 281 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 66 ft | 395 ftWalupt Creek | 178 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 79 ft | 459 ftWalupt Creek | 111 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 66 ft | 370 ftWalupt Creek | 148 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 027 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 54 ft | 472 ftWalupt Creek | 43 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 028 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 54 ft | 424 ftWalupt Creek | 94 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 029 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 96 ft | 466 ft | 202 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 030 Multi | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 96 ft | 395 ft | 191 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 031 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 444 ft | 299 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 032 Multi | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 365 ft | 252 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 033 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 81 ft | 420 ft | 204 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 034 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 81 ft | 339 ft | 133 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 035 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 107 ft | 374 ft | 146 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 036 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 107 ft | 269 ft | 41 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 037 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 67 ft | 259 ft | 175 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 038 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 34 ft | 197 ft | 155 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 039 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 34 ft | 176 ft | 136 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 040 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 48 ft | 152 ft | 110 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 041 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 48 ft | 148 ft | 89 ft | $25–$45 |
| Main Loop | 042 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 55 ft | 143 ft | 95 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 90 ft | 282 ftWalupt Creek | 319 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 008 Multi | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 90 ft | 202 ftWalupt Creek | 306 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 49 ft | 175 ftWalupt Creek | 230 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 49 ft | 208 ftWalupt Creek | 182 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 73 ft | 173 ftWalupt Creek | 148 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 76 ft | 110 ftWalupt Creek | 224 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 73 ft | 131 ftWalupt Creek | 159 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 325 ftWalupt Creek | 63 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 74 ft | 229 ftWalupt Creek | 128 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 016 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 74 ft | 155 ftWalupt Creek | 156 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 98 ft | 233 ftWalupt Creek | 40 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 77 ft | 378 ftWalupt Creek | 147 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 77 ft | 302 ftWalupt Creek | 123 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 020 Multi | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 62 ft | 434 ftWalupt Creek | 305 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 62 ft | 371 ftWalupt Creek | 291 ft | $25–$45 |
| Sub Loop | 022 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 85 ft | 413 ftWalupt Creek | 379 ft | $25–$45 |
25 of 42 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Horseshoe Lake CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 9.1 mi
Killen Creek CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 9.6 mi
Adams Fork CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 10 mi
Takhlakh Lake CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 12 mi
Olallie Lake CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest · 12 mi
Blue Lake Creek Campground - Gifford Pinchot NF (WA)Gifford Pinchot National Forest · 13 miTake I-5 to Highway 12 towards Packwood, then take Highway 21 to FS Road 2160 to the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Packwood, 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
Walupt 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: F. See every public-lands vote →