Camping near Port Angeles, Washington

Camping near Port Angeles at a glance

Public campgrounds

9 (7 National Park Service, 1 County, 1 State Forest)

Getting a site

4 reservable and 5 first-come

Cost

Lowest posted fee at Queets Campground: "$15/night"

Distance from Port Angeles

5.8 miles (Heart O' the Hills Campground) to 43 miles (Queets Campground) in a straight line; 2 within 15 miles

Elevation

37 ft (Lyre River Campground) to 1,813 ft (Heart O' the Hills Campground), 7 of 9 on record

Season

4 open all year, 1 seasonal with posted dates

Campsites

471 across the 9 campgrounds that state a count

RVs

6 take RVs; hookups at Salt Creek Recreation Area, Log Cabin Resort RV & Campground, and Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort Campground; longest stated RV length 55 ft (Fairholme Campground)

Drinking water

5 of 9

Distances are straight-line miles from Port Angeles'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 Port Angeles

• Dungeness Recreation Area, 12 miles from Port Angeles in a straight line , County , reservable ($32/night Clallam County residents, $43 non-residents; hiker/biker $10 per person; $10 extra vehicle); listed under camping near Sequim.
• Deer Park Campground, 15 miles from Port Angeles in a straight line , National Park Service , first-come ($15/night); listed under camping near Carlsborg.
• Dungeness Forks, 19 miles from Port Angeles in a straight line , National Forest , first-come (Single site: $14 per night; additional vehicle $5 per night); listed under camping near Sequim.
• Sequim Bay State Park, 20 miles from Port Angeles in a straight line , State Park , reservable (Peak nightly (statewide): standard $31-$43, full hookup $46-$56); listed under camping near Sequim.
• Sadie Creek Campground, 21 miles from Port Angeles in a straight line , State Forest , first-come (No camping fee (first come, with a Discover Pass)); listed under camping near Clallam Bay.
• Hoh Campground, 29 miles from Port Angeles in a straight line , National Park Service , reservable ($24/night); listed under camping near Forks.

Things to do near Port Angeles

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

• Olympic National Park, 7 of the 9 campgrounds here sit inside this National Park Service unit, the nearest Heart O' the Hills Campground at 5.8 miles from Port Angeles; publiclandsdb.com has its entrance fees, current alerts and fire restrictions, and boundary.
• Tongue Point tide pools and WWII bunker, at Salt Creek Recreation Area (12 miles from Port Angeles): The 196-acre park on the Strait of Juan de Fuca has rocky tide pools, a sand beach and Salt Creek access, trails to a WWII bunker, and a trailhead to the DNR Striped Peak trail (5 miles round trip, 850 ft gain).
• Olympic Hot Springs, a hot spring whose mapped point is 15 miles from Port Angeles; soaking details on swimholesmap.com.
• Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge, a national wildlife refuge whose mapped point is 15 miles from Port Angeles; its hours, camping, hunting and fishing rules, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
• Lake Crescent, at Log Cabin Resort RV & Campground (16 miles from Port Angeles): The campground sits next to Lake Crescent, with full hook-up RV sites, a group tent area with four pads, bike-in tent sites and ADA tent sites.
• Marymere Falls, a waterfall whose mapped point is 17 miles from Port Angeles; details on the falls on swimholesmap.com.
• Carrie Blake Park Pond fishing, a fishing water whose mapped point is 17 miles from Port Angeles; stocking record and species on fishypedia.com.
• Sequim Bay State Park, a state park whose mapped point is 20 miles from Port Angeles; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
• Daniel J. Evans Wilderness, a wilderness area whose mapped point is 21 miles from Port Angeles; its permit and camping rules and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
• Sol Duc Hot Springs, a hot spring whose mapped point is 22 miles from Port Angeles; soaking details on swimholesmap.com.

Supplies and emergencies near Port Angeles

Nearest emergency room: Olympic Medical Center, 939 Caroline St, Port Angeles, WA, 1.5 miles from Port Angeles , (360) 417-7000. Next nearest: Jefferson Healthcare, 834 Sheridan St, Port Townsend, WA, 30 miles, (360) 385-2200. Both report emergency services in the CMS Hospital General Information dataset (accessed 2026-09-26) . In an emergency, call 911.

Groceries

• Masco Petroleum convenience store · 0.3 miles
• Food Mart convenience store · 0.5 miles
• Country Aire Natural Foods supermarket · 0.6 miles

Fuel

• Pacific Pride fuel station · 0.1 miles
• DEF Fuel fuel station · 0.1 miles
• Masco Petroleum fuel station · 0.3 miles

Propane

• Messer Industrial Gases propane dealer · 22 miles · (888) 256-7359

RV dump station

• Elwha Dam RV Park campground · 5 miles
• Salish Trails Campground RV park · 6.8 miles
• Rainbow's End RV Park RV park · 14 miles

Pharmacy

• Safeway pharmacy · 0.7 miles
• Walgreens pharmacy · 1.5 miles
• Safeway pharmacy · 3.3 miles

Laundromat

• Olympic Laundry laundromat · 0.7 miles
• Willy's Laundromat laundromat · 1.5 miles
• Avalon laundromat · 23 miles · Hours Mo-We 08:30-17:00; Fr-Su 08:30-17:00

Not mapped in OpenStreetMap within 25 miles of Port Angeles: 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.

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