Camping near Palouse, Washington
Camping near Palouse, Washington includes 1 public campground on record, 1 first-come. All are run by a county parks department. Another 1 public campground filed under nearby towns is within 30 miles of Palouse.
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Camping near Palouse at a glance
- Public campgrounds
- 1 (1 County)
- Getting a site
- 1 first-come
- Cost
- Lowest posted fee at Kamiak Butte County Park Campground: "$25/night plus $5 for a second vehicle"
- Distance from Palouse
- 4.8 miles in a straight line
- Elevation
- 2,931 ft at Kamiak Butte County Park Campground (the only one on record)
- Campsites
- 9 across the 1 campground that state a count
- RVs
- 1 take RVs; no hookups on record; longest stated RV length 18 ft (Kamiak Butte County Park Campground)
Distances are straight-line miles from Palouse'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 Palouse
- Wawawai County Park Campground, 24 miles from Palouse in a straight line , County , first-come ($25/night plus $5 for a second vehicle); listed under camping near Colton.
Things to do near Palouse
Public land and water within 30 miles of Palouse, the public land its campgrounds sit in, and landmarks at those campgrounds, nearest first.
- Kamiak Butte, at Kamiak Butte County Park Campground (4.8 miles from Palouse): A forested butte rising to 3,641 feet above the Palouse hills, with about five miles of trail up to its ridge, wildflowers and wildlife.
- Garfield Pond fishing, a fishing water whose mapped point is 8.2 miles from Palouse; stocking record and species on fishypedia.com.
- McCroskey State Park, a state park whose mapped point is 12 miles from Palouse; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
- Steptoe Butte State Park Heritage Site, a state park whose mapped point is 13 miles from Palouse; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
- Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail, a state park whose mapped point is 24 miles from Palouse; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
- Steptoe Battlefield State Park, a state park whose mapped point is 26 miles from Palouse; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
- Steptoe Battlefield State Park Heritage Site, a state park whose mapped point is 26 miles from Palouse; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
Supplies and emergencies near Palouse
Nearest emergency room: Gritman Medical Center, 700 S Main St, Moscow, ID, 13 miles from Palouse , (208) 882-4511. Next nearest: Whitman Hospital and Medical Center, 1200 W Fairview St, Colfax, WA, 14 miles, (509) 397-3435. Both report emergency services in the CMS Hospital General Information dataset (accessed 2026-09-26) . In an emergency, call 911.
- Groceries
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- Palouse Market
- Schaut's Marketplace
- Grange Supply Convenience store
- Fuel
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- CFN Garfield fuel station
- Cenex
- NomNom
- RV dump station
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- Garfield RV Park
- Pines RV Park
- Pharmacy
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- Walgreens
- Safeway
- Tekoa Pharmacy
- Laundromat
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- Sunshine North Laundromat
- Colfax Laundromat
Not mapped in OpenStreetMap within 25 miles of Palouse: propane, potable water fill, 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.
Common questions
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Every campground in the state: camping in Washington ; by agency: County campgrounds in Washington ; by county: campgrounds in Whitman .