Washington Creek Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 17 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Season
- May 24 – October 14Open May 24 through October 14
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Crossing the bridge over to Washington Creek Campground, visitors gain a splendid view overlooking the North Fork of the Clearwater River. This campground offers one host site and 23 campsites (including one group site). Each site contains a gravel parking pad, picnic table and fire ring, with access to 5 restrooms and 3 water spigots which are distributed around the loop for visitors’ convenience. Washington Ridge Trail departs from the campground, offering visitors quick access to higher elevation perspective. The trail is open to hikers, stock users, bicyclists and motorcycles. With river access along the full length of the campground, the area also offers ample opportunities for fishing, swimming or just dipping one’s toes in the crisp clear water.
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…ring, with access to 5 restrooms and 3 water spigots which are distributed around the loop for visitors'…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Picnicking
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Cold Springs Peak Cabin - Clearwater NF (ID)Clearwater National Forest · 13 mi
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the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Pierce, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 58°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 30°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 moreOutside the published season
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
Washington Creek Campground is in Idaho’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Russ Fulcher (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →