Wish Poosh Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 12 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $22–$43Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3432 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Wish Poosh Campground sits near the southeastern shore of Cle Elum Lake in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. This campground is a popular gathering place for individuals and families to enjoy both the mountains and the serenity of the lake at an elevation of 2,300 feet. Recreational opportunities abound for those wanting to take advantage of the trails and waterfront areas nearby. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to being a prime location for hiking, fishing, swimming, horseback riding and mountain biking in summer and early fall, the area offers excellent snowshoeing and snowmobiling in the winter months. Anglers also enjoy the abundance of fishing opportunities. Please check the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife regulations for the most current fishing information: here The nearby Speelyi Beach features a wide sandy beach surrounded by conifer forest on Cle Elum Lake. Visitors enjoy swimming and kayaking.
Facilities
Wish Poosh Campground's drinking water system and flush toilets are out of order. Portable toilets will be provided. There are 34 sites for both tent and RV camping. All sites are equipped with picnic tables and campfire rings with grills.
Natural Features
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest offers stunning scenic views, with high, glaciated alpine peaks, valleys of old growth forest and rugged shrub-steppe country making up the diverse landscape. Elevations range from below 1,000 feet to over 9,000 feet. Visitors can expect warm, sunny weather in the summer, and winters with clear skies and plenty of snow. The surrounding undeveloped wilderness, clean streams and diverse forests support an abundance of wildlife, including deer, porcupine, native fish and migratory birds. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
Nearby Attractions
There are hiking trails within 5 miles of the campground, and the spectacular Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), one of the world's premier National Scenic Trails which showcases some of North America's most fantastic scenery as it winds its way its way from Mexico to Canada, is accessible near the campground.
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
ALERT: Effective Friday, 7/31/2026, the boat launch at Wish Poosh CG will close due to low water levels in the lake.
Check in: 2 pm, Check out: 12 pm (noon)
No water or electric hookups are available
Everything else this campground posts · 6
First-come, first-serve sites may be available
Off-road vehicles are not permitted
Click here for more information about Okanogan-Wenatchee 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: $10.00 (2nd vehicle for single sites, 3rd and 4th vehicles for double sites) will be collected at the campground. Extra vehicle is defined as any vehicle (motorhome, trailer, or passenger vehicle) that is not towed in with the first vehicle. If primary vehicle fills the parking pad, no additional vehicles will be allowed
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 34
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Portable Toilets
- “…Campground's drinking water system and flush toilets are out of order. Portable toilets will be…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Facilities Wish Poosh Campground's drinking water system and flush toilets are out of order. Portable…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 332nd darkest of 400 in WA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 23 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 32 of the 34 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.
Every line of the receipt · 14
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, $22–$43 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
34 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 31 mapped sitesAll 34 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 34 of the 34 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 144 ft | 323 ft | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 155 ft | 380 ft | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 144 ft | 460 ft | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 153 ft | 488 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 173 ft | 629 ft | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 146 ft | 484 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 146 ft | 343 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 008 | type not stated | 42 ft | 420 ftCle Elum Lake | $22 | |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 159 ft | 212 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 144 ft | 181 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 145 ft | 366 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 104 ft | 193 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 145 ft | 340 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 104 ft | 207 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 134 ft | 243 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 102 ft | 374 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 102 ft | 372 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 134 ft | 250 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 144 ft | 264 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 020 | type not stated | 60 ft | 399 ftCle Elum Lake | $22 | |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 174 ft | 326 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | $22–$43 | ||
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 216 ft | 460 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 131 ft | 641 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 131 ft | 511 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 106 ft | 641 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 108 ft | 518 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 106 ft | 669 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 108 ft | 526 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 109 ft | 748 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 109 ft | 726 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 104 ft | 579 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 109 ft | 687 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
| WISH POOSH CAMPGROUND | 034 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 104 ft | 558 ftCle Elum Lake | $22–$43 |
25 of 34 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cle Elum River Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 5.0 miFrench Cabin Creek Recreation AreaWenatchee National Forest · 5.3 miRed Mountain CampgroundWenatchee National Forest · 6.0 miEast Kachess Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 6.8 mi
East Kachess Group SiteWenatchee National Forest · 7.5 mi
Cayuse Horse CampWenatchee National Forest · 8.3 miFrom Seattle, take I-90 East to exit 80, then take a left on Bullfrog Road, then head north on County Road 903. The campground is on the left after approximately 8 miles.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Roslyn, WA
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 62°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
Wish Poosh 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 →