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Manastash Lake Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WA · 47.03451, -120.95361
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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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Manastash Lake Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
No road within 1 mi of the pin in the national MVUM layer — and that layer carries no data at all for this forest (unit 0617), so this is the layer's silence, not the ground's. Access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 Manastash Lake Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,362 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Manastash Lake 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 Manastash Lake Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- LLaundry9 mi
- WWater10 mi
- DDump10 mi
- HHardware11 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- ShShower11 mi
- EVEV fast charger11 mi
- RxPharmacy11 mi
- AAir-up11 mi
- +Urgent care11 mi
- OOutfitter11 mi
- @Mail11 mi
- PPropane24 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 8 mi out.
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 — Manastash Lake Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
4,362 ft
Ground slope
3.6% · gentle
Nearest highway
~9.3 mi · Interstate 90
State
WA
Coordinates
47.03451, -120.95361
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Manastash Lake Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSouth Fork Manastash Creek · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townCliffdell · ~8.8 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~9.3 mi · Interstate 90
- Drinking waterWater · ~9.5 mi
- Fuel76 · ~8.3 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~24.1 mi
- Dump station~9.8 mi
- GroceriesWhistlin' Jack · ~8.3 mi
- PharmacyCle Elum Drug · ~11.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicCle Elum Medical Center · ~11.1 mi
- HardwareAper's Certified Welding · ~10.7 mi
EV charging — from Manastash Lake Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger11.0 mi straight-line N — Cle Elum, WA - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 12 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 reach10 within 25 mi · 42 within 50 · 378 within 100 · 613 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS12.4 mi — WCEH Cle Elum, Cle Elum
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO12.4 mi — WCEH Cle Elum, Cle Elum
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)11.1 mi — Cle Elum 1: 111 N Harris Ave · EV Connect · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- 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 116820 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Manastash Lake Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletManastash Lake Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletRiders Camp · ~0.9 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletManastash Trailhead · ~0.9 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletShoestring · ~1.2 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Manastash Lake Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps South Fork Manastash Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.2 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 3.6% — gentle. 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 is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- Interstate 90 is mapped ~9.3 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Manastash Lake Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Manastash Lake Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Riders Camp~0.9 mi · fee
- Taneum Junction Campground~5.3 mi
- Icewater Creek~5.9 mi · fee
- Taneum~6.9 mi · fee
The unit that manages Manastash Lake Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Manastash Lake Campground are set by Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Manastash Lake Campground
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: $5 per night, single site. The Okanogan-Wenatchee has no live page for this campground -- the one recreation.gov links to returns 404 -- so the rate comes from the campground's own recreation.gov listing, which sits 0.001 mi from our pin and prices the 2026 season (May 15 to Oct 15) at $5 for a single site and $5 dispersed. Source: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10363602.
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 Manastash Lake 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.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- 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 — Manastash Lake Campground
Camping near a reservoir →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →