Camping near Kettle Falls, Washington

Camping near Kettle Falls at a glance

Public campgrounds

11 (6 National Forest, 5 National Park Service)

Getting a site

5 reservable and 6 first-come

Cost

1 free; lowest posted fee at Trout Lake: "Single Site: $8 per night"

Distance from Kettle Falls

2.6 miles (Locust Grove Group Sites) to 25 miles (Summit Lake) in a straight line; 8 within 15 miles

Elevation

1,301 ft (Haag Cove Campground) to 5,228 ft (Sherman Overlook), 11 of 11 on record

Season

1 open all year, 6 seasonal with posted dates

Campsites

129 across the 6 campgrounds that state a count

RVs

4 take RVs; no hookups on record; longest stated RV length 50 ft (Kettle Falls Campground)

Drinking water

4 of 11

Distances are straight-line miles from Kettle Falls's point in the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2025), not driving distances. Every other fact comes from each campground's own sourced record, linked from its page.

More campgrounds within 30 miles of Kettle Falls

• Marcus Island Campground, 4.4 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Park Service , reservable ($23/night); listed under camping near Marcus.
• Evans Campground, 6.8 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Park Service , reservable ($30/night); listed under camping near Marcus.
• Evans Group Site, 6.9 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Park Service , reservable ($65/night); listed under camping near Marcus.
• Douglas Falls Grange Park Campground, 7.5 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , State Forest , first-come (No camping fee (first come, with a Discover Pass)); listed under camping near Colville.
• Kettle River Campground, 8.1 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Park Service , reservable ($23/night); listed under camping near Boyds.
• Canyon Creek, 8.4 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Forest , first-come ; listed under camping near Colville.
• Rocky Lake Campground, 12 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , State Forest , first-come (No camping fee (first come, with a Discover Pass)); listed under camping near Colville.
• Davis Lake, 12 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Forest , first-come (Single Site: $8 per night); listed under camping near Colville.
• Barnaby Creek Campground, 13 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , Tribal Land ($35 per day camping permit (double if bought from an enforcement officer in the field)); listed under camping near Inchelium.
• North Gorge Campground, 13 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Park Service , reservable ($23/night); listed under camping near Barstow.
• Starvation Lake Campground, 18 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , State Forest , first-come (No camping fee (first come, with a Discover Pass)); listed under camping near Colville.
• Little Twin, 19 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Forest , first-come (Single Site: $8 per night); listed under camping near Colville.
• Cloverleaf Campground, 22 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Park Service , reservable ($23/night); listed under camping near Inchelium.
• Gifford Group Site, 22 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Park Service , reservable ($65/night); listed under camping near Inchelium.
• Gifford Campground, 22 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Park Service , reservable ($30/night); listed under camping near Inchelium.
• Flodelle Creek Campground, 23 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , State Forest , first-come (No camping fee (first come, with a Discover Pass)); listed under camping near Colville.
• Deer Creek Forest Camp, 24 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Forest , first-come (Single site: $8 per night); listed under camping near Curlew.
• Sherry Creek Campground, 24 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , State Forest , first-come (No camping fee (first come, with a Discover Pass)); listed under camping near Ione.
• Lake Gillette, 24 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Forest , reservable (Single Site: $31 per night); listed under camping near Colville.
• Elbow Lake, 24 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Forest , first-come (free); listed under camping near Northport.
• Gillette, 24 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Forest , reservable (Single Site: $31 per night); listed under camping near Colville.
• Lake Thomas, 24 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Forest , first-come (Single Site: $31 per night); listed under camping near Colville.
• Big Meadow Lake, 24 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Forest , first-come ; listed under camping near Ione.
• North Fork Chewelah, 25 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Forest , first-come (free); listed under camping near Chewelah.
• Lake Leo, 26 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , National Forest , first-come (Single site: $31 per night; double $52; day use $10 per vehicle); listed under camping near Colville.
• Sheep Creek Campground, 27 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , State Forest , first-come (No camping fee (first come, with a Discover Pass)); listed under camping near Northport.
• Curlew Lake State Park, 29 miles from Kettle Falls in a straight line , State Park , reservable (Peak nightly (statewide): standard $31-$43, partial hookup $41-$51, full hookup $46-$56); listed under camping near Republic.

Things to do near Kettle Falls

Public land and water within 30 miles of Kettle Falls, the public land its campgrounds sit in, and landmarks at those campgrounds, nearest first.

• Rigley Lake fishing, a fishing water whose mapped point is 4.7 miles from Kettle Falls; stocking record and species on fishypedia.com.
• Colville National Forest, 6 of the 11 campgrounds here sit inside this national forest, the nearest Trout Lake at 8.2 miles from Kettle Falls; publiclandsdb.com has its dispersed-camping rule, ranger offices, and boundary.
• Trout Lake and Hoodoo Canyon Trail, at Trout Lake (8.2 miles from Kettle Falls): Tent sites near the lake with a fishing dock and small boat launch (no internal combustion motors); the campground is the trailhead for the 4.7-mile Hoodoo Canyon Trail #17.
• Lake Ellen fishing, a fishing water whose mapped point is 12 miles from Kettle Falls; stocking record and species on fishypedia.com.
• Hatch Lake fishing, a fishing water whose mapped point is 14 miles from Kettle Falls; stocking record and species on fishypedia.com.
• Sherman Overlook Trail and Kettle Crest, at Sherman Overlook (18 miles from Kettle Falls): The short paved, ADA-accessible Sherman Overlook interpretive Trail #96A starts here, and the Sherman Pass Tie Trail #96 connects to the Kettle Crest.
• Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge, a national wildlife refuge whose mapped point is 21 miles from Kettle Falls; its hours, camping, hunting and fishing rules, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
• Pierre Lake fishing dock, at Pierre Lake (21 miles from Kettle Falls): A 175-foot fishing dock on Pierre Lake; lead weights are prohibited. The north end has six sites for smaller campers, the south end nine.
• Lake Gillette fishing, a fishing water whose mapped point is 24 miles from Kettle Falls; stocking record and species on fishypedia.com.
• Lake Sherry fishing, a fishing water whose mapped point is 24 miles from Kettle Falls; stocking record and species on fishypedia.com.

Supplies and emergencies near Kettle Falls

Nearest emergency room: Providence Mount Carmel Hospital, 982 E Columbia Ave, Colville, WA, 8.9 miles from Kettle Falls , (509) 684-2561. Next nearest: Providence St Joseph Hospital, 500 E Webster Ave, Chewelah, WA, 28 miles, (509) 935-8211. Both report emergency services in the CMS Hospital General Information dataset (accessed 2026-09-26) . In an emergency, call 911.

Groceries

• Kettle Falls Harvest Foods supermarket · 0.4 miles
• Meyers Falls Market supermarket · 0.5 miles
• Whitty's Mini Mart Kettle Falls convenience store · 0.5 miles

Fuel

• Pacific Pride fuel station · 0.4 miles
• Exxon fuel station · 0.5 miles
• Colville Fuels fuel station · 3.2 miles

Propane

• Aspen Valley Propane propane dealer · 9.3 miles

Laundromat

• Colville Speed Clean Coin-Op laundromat · 8.5 miles

Not mapped in OpenStreetMap within 25 miles of Kettle Falls: RV dump station, potable water fill, pharmacy, and ice. Stores, fuel, propane, dump stations, water fill, laundromats, and pharmacies are the nearest few mapped within 25 miles, straight-line, © OpenStreetMap contributors (data as of 2026-09-29; this extract under the ODbL). Hours are as mapped; call ahead.

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