Offering essential details and easy-to-read maps, Best Tent Camping: Washington presents 50 of the state's best campgrounds for car campers.

Ellie Kozlowski grew up in a suburb of Boston and camped on Cape Cod as a kid. She's lived in the Pacific Northwest for the better part of a decade. It is, she thinks, the best place to enjoy the desert, the rainforest, the ocean, and the mountains. She loves adventuring, hiking, stargazing, snowshoeing, reading or napping in her hammock, and losing cell service. When she's not driving up a mountainside or along a coast, she's enjoying all Seattle has to offer with her partner and their dog.

Jeanne Louise Pyle lived in the Pacific Northwest for 30 years. Her love of the outdoors led to authoring the first book of the Best Tent Camping series in 1994.

Campground Locator Map

Map Legend

Acknowledgments

Preface

Best Campgrounds

Introduction

Olympic Peninsula and Southwestern Washington

• Bruceport County Park Campground


• Deer Park Campground


• Dungeness Recreation Area Campground


• Fairholme Campground


• Hoh Rain Forest Campground


• Lyre River Campground


• Mora Campground


• Queets Campground


• Rialto Beach Campground


• Upper Clearwater Campground

Puget Sound

• Birch Bay State Park Campground


• Deception Pass State Park: Bowman Bay Campground


• Fort Ebey State Park Campground


• Illahee State Park Campground


• Larrabee State Park Campground


• Lopez Farm Cottages and Tent Camping


• Moran State Park: Mountain Lake Campground


• Obstruction Pass State Park Campground


• Shaw County Park Campground


• Spencer Spit State Park Campground

Northern Cascades and Environs

• Buck Creek Campground


• Colonial Creek Campground


• Falls Creek Campground


• Hart's Pass Campground


• Mineral Park Campground


• Panorama Point Campground


• Silver Falls Campground


• Sulphur Creek Campground

Central Cascades and Environs

• Beckler River Campground


• Bedal Campground


• Owhi Campground


• Rock Island Campground


• Soda Springs Campground

Southern Cascades and Environs

• Beacon Rock State Park Campground


• Goose Lake Campground


• Lower Falls Campground


• Merrill Lake Campground


• Takhlakh Lake Campground

North Central Washington

• Crawfish Lake Campground


• North Fork Nine Mile Campground

Northeastern Washington

• Ferry Lake Campground


• Haag Cove Campground


• Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge Campgrounds


• Lyman Lake Campground


• Mount Spokane State Park: Bald Knob Campground


• Riverside State Park Campgrounds

Southeastern Washington

• Brooks Memorial State Park Campground


• Fields Spring State Park Campground


• Godman Campground


• Palouse Falls State Park Campground

Appendix A: Camping Equipment Checklist

Appendix B: Sources of Information

Index

About the Authors