Agency-listedUSFSFeeOpen todayRoad season: open (MVUM)
Gatton Creek Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WA · 47.47313, -123.83800
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Can I go now? — Gatton Creek Campground · Olympic National Forest · WA
Open today Season May 1 – Sep 30. Closes after Sep 30.
U.S. Forest Service record: “May through September” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Gatton Creek Campground · Olympic National Forest · WA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 2272151 (Gatton Creek Th), 60 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 2272151 (Gatton Creek Th), 60 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 2272151 (Gatton Creek Th): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Gatton Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 198 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Gatton Creek CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Gatton Creek Campground · Olympic National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery0 mi
- LLaundry0 mi
- ShShower0 mi
- @Mail0 mi
- FFuel1 mi
- MMechanic1 mi
- PPropane18 mi
- HHardware25 mi
- WWater25 mi
- DDump25 mi
- AAir-up33 mi
- +Urgent care33 mi
- RxPharmacy34 mi
- EVEV fast charger34 mi
- OOutfitter34 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 25-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 0 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 34-mi run (and back).
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Gatton Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
198 ft
Ground slope
20% · steep
State
WA
Coordinates
47.47313, -123.83800
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Gatton Creek Campground · Olympic National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureGatton Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townAmanda Park · ~4.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~0.7 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~17.6 mi
- Dump station~25.1 mi
- GroceriesRain Forest Resort General Store & Gift Shop · ~0.3 mi
- HardwareWacky Warehouse · ~25.0 mi
EV charging — from Gatton Creek Campground · Olympic National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger34.3 mi straight-line S — Aberdeen, WA - Tesla Supercharger (at a municipal building) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 11 within 50 · 336 within 100 · 478 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS34.3 mi — Harbor CDJR, Aberdeen
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO34.4 mi — Walmart 2037 (Aberdeen, WA), Aberdeen
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)23.9 mi — Gull Wing Inn, Moclips, WA (at a hotel) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2022-06-14 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Lake Quinault Lodge, Quinault, 0.8 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use only · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 102483 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Gatton Creek Campground · Olympic National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletGatton Creek Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Flush restroomFalls Creek · ~0.4 mi SW · USFS
- Flush restroomLake Quinault Lodge · ~0.6 mi SW · USFS
- Flush restroomWillaby · ~1.2 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Gatton Creek Campground · Olympic National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Gatton Creek as a perennial stream, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 20% — steep. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Gatton Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Gatton Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Falls Creek~0.4 mi · fee
- Willaby~1.2 mi · fee
- Campbell Tree Grove Campground~7.1 mi
- Campbell Tree Grove~7.1 mi
The unit that manages Gatton Creek Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Gatton Creek Campground are set by Olympic National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Gatton Creek Campground
Open season
May through September
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-21: $25 per night, single site, plus $5 per additional vehicle per night. Five walk-in tent sites on the south shore of Lake Quinault, open May through September. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/olympic/recreation/gatton-creek-campground-day-use-area. Do not confuse this with the Gatton Creek Trailhead across South Shore Road, whose page says no fee is required.
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the page.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Gatton Creek Campground
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Gatton Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Picking a spot →All field notes →