White River Campground
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- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:48 UTC
- A night
- $20When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 109In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
White River Campground is available on a first come first serve basis only. The campground sits at 4,440 ft in elevation, 1200 ft higher than any other campground with amenities in Mount Rainier National Park. For this reason, winter lingers long and comes early. White River often opens at the end of June or early July and stays open in late September. The campground has are 88 campsites that cost $20 a night. There is a 27 ft RV limit and an 18ft trailer limit. Use the Recreation.gov Mobile App to pay the nightly camping fee when you arrive at the campground. Prior to arriving at the campground download the Recreation.gov App to your mobile device and create a Recreation.gov account. Keep reading
Recreation
There are plenty of hiking opporunities as well as rich ecological sytems that will interest amateur botanists and mycologists.
Facilities
White River Campground has flush toilets, fire grates in the campsites and access to potable water. There is no dump station, laundry, Wi-Fi or cellphone service at this time. The maximum size for an RV is 27 feet and 18 ft for a tralier.
Natural Features
This high elevation campground is located near the White River and in a lovely forest. Trails crisscross the campground, including the Wonderland, Burrough Mountain and Glacier Basin Camp Trails.
Nearby Attractions
Trails: Glacier Basin, Burroughs Mountain, the Wonderland and the River Trail. The White River Ten miles to Sunrise Five miles from Highway 410 Four miles to the a Ranger Station Charges & Cancellations Currently White River is a first-come, first-served campgrounds so there are no cancellations.
What the agency tells you
White River Campground now offers an electronic payment option to pay your camping fees. Download the Recreation.gov app prior to arriving at the campground and create a Recreation.gov account. You will be able to use the app on your mobile device to scan the QR Code posted at the campground bulletin board and pay the nightly fee.
RV Limit 27 ft. Trailer Limit 18ft. There are no electrical, water, or grey water hookups in any of the park's campgrounds.
High elevation campground with variable weather.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
There is no cellular service or Wi-Fi in the campground. Download the Recreation.gov app to your mobile device prior to arriving at the campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 109 · 25 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Berry Picking
- Birding
- Picnicking
- Wilderness access
- Night sky · 336th darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Park Service says
- None
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:48 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 · 12
What you actually pay
“Currently White River is a first-come, first-served campgrounds so there are no cancellations.” · 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 · 5
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at White River Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The National Park 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 150 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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recreation.gov availability, read 16:48 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
109 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 107 mapped sitesAll 109 sites
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| A | A001 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 270 ft |
| A | A002 | rv nonelectric | 67 ft | 203 ft |
| A | A003 | tent only nonelectric | 53 ft | 168 ft |
| A | A004 | rv nonelectric | 53 ft | 121 ft |
| A | A005 | rv nonelectric | 99 ft | 34 ft |
| A | A006 | tent only nonelectric | 105 ft | 63 ft |
| A | A007 | tent only nonelectric | 34 ft | 158 ft |
| A | A008 | rv nonelectric | 34 ft | 188 ft |
| A | A009 | tent only nonelectric | 69 ft | 211 ft |
| A | A010 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 280 ft |
| A | A011 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 276 ft |
| A | A012 | rv nonelectric | 49 ft | 344 ft |
| A | A013 | rv nonelectric | 49 ft | 341 ft |
| A | A014 | rv nonelectric | 79 ft | 336 ft |
| A | A015 | rv nonelectric | 43 ft | 371 ft |
| A | A016 | rv nonelectric | 43 ft | 360 ft |
| A | A017 | rv nonelectric | 61 ft | 414 ft |
| A | A018 | rv nonelectric | 53 ft | 444 ft |
| A | A019 | rv nonelectric | 52 ft | 450 ft |
| A | A020 | rv nonelectric | 52 ft | 487 ft |
| A | A021 | rv nonelectric | 37 ft | 407 ft |
| A | A022 | rv nonelectric | 37 ft | 411 ft |
| A | A023 | rv nonelectric | 42 ft | 370 ft |
| A | A024 | rv nonelectric | 39 ft | 334 ft |
| A | A025 | rv nonelectric | 39 ft | 314 ft |
| A | A026 | rv nonelectric | 63 ft | 285 ft |
| A | A027 | tent only nonelectric | 55 ft | 225 ft |
| A | A028 | tent only nonelectric | 55 ft | 175 ft |
| B | B001 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 341 ft |
| B | B002 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 349 ft |
| B | B005 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 356 ft |
| B | B006 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 339 ft |
| B | B007 | tent only nonelectric | 41 ft | 285 ft |
| B | B008 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft | 312 ft |
| B | B009 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 276 ft |
| B | B010 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | 332 ft |
| B | B011 | tent only nonelectric | 36 ft | 381 ft |
| B | B012 | tent only nonelectric | 36 ft | 386 ft |
| B | B013 | tent only nonelectric | 53 ft | 437 ft |
| B | B014 | rv nonelectric | 39 ft | 424 ft |
| B | B015 | rv nonelectric | 39 ft | 463 ft |
| B | B016 | rv nonelectric | 49 ft | 450 ft |
| B | B017 | rv nonelectric | 43 ft | 425 ft |
| B | B018 | rv nonelectric | 39 ft | 405 ft |
| B | B019 | rv nonelectric | 39 ft | 371 ft |
| B | B03 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 368 ft |
| B | B04 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 351 ft |
| C | C001 | rv nonelectric | 53 ft | 414 ft |
| C | C002 | rv nonelectric | 51 ft | 446 ft |
| C | C003 | rv nonelectric | 51 ft | 486 ft |
| C | C004 | rv nonelectric | 43 ft | 550 ft |
| C | C005 | rv nonelectric | 42 ft | 554 ft |
| C | C006 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 573 ft |
| C | C007 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 594 ft |
| C | C008 | rv nonelectric | 39 ft | 623 ft |
| C | C009 | rv nonelectric | 39 ft | 637 ft |
| C | C010 | tent only nonelectric | 44 ft | 679 ft |
| C | C011 | rv nonelectric | 44 ft | 639 ft |
| C | C012 | rv nonelectric | 44 ft | 661 ft |
| C | C013 | rv nonelectric | 55 ft | 606 ft |
| C | C014 | rv nonelectric | 58 ft | 625 ft |
| C | C015 | rv nonelectric | 51 ft | 567 ft |
| C | C016 | tent only nonelectric | 51 ft | 593 ft |
| C | C017 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 568 ft |
| C | C018 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 525 ft |
| C | C019 | tent only nonelectric | 43 ft | 541 ft |
| C | C020 | tent only nonelectric | 43 ft | 499 ft |
| C | C021 | tent only nonelectric | 80 ft | 514 ft |
| C | C022 | rv nonelectric | 48 ft | 418 ft |
| C | C023 | rv nonelectric | 62 ft | 408 ft |
| C | C024 | rv nonelectric | 86 ft | 407 ft |
| C | C025 | rv nonelectric | 104 ft | 415 ft |
| C | C026 | rv nonelectric | 88 ft | 445 ft |
| C | C027 | rv nonelectric | 87 ft | 468 ft |
| C | C028 | rv nonelectric | 68 ft | 428 ft |
| D | D001 | rv nonelectric | 41 ft | 375 ft |
| D | D003 | rv nonelectric | 54 ft | 371 ft |
| D | D004 | tent only nonelectric | 43 ft | 414 ft |
| D | D005 | rv nonelectric | 43 ft | 371 ft |
| D | D007 | tent only nonelectric | 33 ft | 400 ft |
| D | D008 | rv nonelectric | 47 ft | 358 ft |
| D | D009 | rv nonelectric | 33 ft | 386 ft |
| D | D010 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft | 380 ft |
| D | D011 | rv nonelectric | 55 ft | 360 ft |
| D | D012 | rv nonelectric | 48 ft | 369 ft |
| D | D013 | rv nonelectric | 48 ft | 410 ft |
| D | D014 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 365 ft |
| D | D015 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 401 ft |
| D | D016 | rv nonelectric | 48 ft | 366 ft |
| D | D017 | tent only nonelectric | 48 ft | 319 ft |
| D | D018 | rv nonelectric | 51 ft | 279 ft |
| D | D019 | tent only nonelectric | 49 ft | 261 ft |
| D | D020 | rv nonelectric | 49 ft | 213 ft |
| D | D021 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 219 ft |
| D | D023 | rv nonelectric | 67 ft | 209 ft |
| D | D025 | rv nonelectric | 52 ft | 196 ft |
| D | D026 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 173 ft |
| D | D027 | rv nonelectric | 39 ft | 213 ft |
| D | D028 | rv nonelectric | 39 ft | 224 ft |
| D | D029 | rv nonelectric | 43 ft | 181 ft |
| D | D030 | rv nonelectric | 43 ft | 215 ft |
| D | D031 | rv nonelectric | 54 ft | 218 ft |
| D | D032 | rv nonelectric | 57 ft | 184 ft |
| D | D033 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 222 ft |
| D | D034 | rv nonelectric | 53 ft | 246 ft |
| D | D035 | type not stated | ||
| D | D036 | rv nonelectric | 53 ft | 297 ft |
| D | D037 | rv nonelectric | 41 ft | 345 ft |
| White River CG | White River CG Scan and Pay | type not stated |
25 of 109 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
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Ohanapecosh CampgroundMount Rainier National Park · 12 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Greenwater, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 49°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 24°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
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
White River 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…water. There is no dump station, laundry, Wi-Fi or cellphone service at this time. The maximum size for an RV is 27 feet…”