National Park System · WA

Camping in North Cascades National Park

The Recreation.gov record puts 9 campgrounds inside the park. Of those, 8 take reservations and 1 is first-come, first-served. Entrance fees, alerts and hours for the park itself are on our sister site, Park Atlas.

9 campgrounds1 first-come

The park in figures

recreation visits in 2025: 46,925
campsites: 280
campgrounds take reservations: 8 of 9
longest RV or trailer allowed: 70 ft

The entrance fee and visit count come from Park Atlas open data. The campground figures are totals across the 9 Recreation.gov records listed below, and the rig length is the longest any one of them allows.

Reservable · WA

Newhalem Creek Campground

108 sitesNo hookups

Reservable · WA

Colonial Creek South Campground

94 sitesNo hookups

Reservable · WA

Colonial Creek North Campground

40 sitesNo hookups

Reservable · WA

Goodell Creek Campground

19 sitesNo hookups

Every campground

Campground	Booking	Rig	Sites
Newhalem Creek Campground	Reservable	70 ft	108
Colonial Creek South Campground	Partly reservable	43 ft	94
Colonial Creek North Campground	Reservable	30 ft	40
Goodell Creek Campground	Reservable	56 ft	19
Gorge Lake Campground	Reservable	·	8
Harlequin Campground	Reservable	·	8
Lower Goodell Group Campground	Reservable	30 ft	2
Upper Goodell Group Campground	Reservable	22 ft	1
Hozomeen Campground	First-come	·	·

Park campgrounds book out fastest of any on Recreation.gov. Most open six months ahead at 10 a.m. Eastern; the first-come loops are the fallback when the window is gone. The first-come playbook