Washington’s 5 Best Camping Spots
You have to backpack to these spots, no ‘drive and park’ camping! Each spot can be reached with one days hiking (although depending upon your fitness/motivation level Isolation Lake and Lakeview Ridge may require a two-day hike to get there). All 5 spots afford an absolutely jaw dropping, gob smacking, OMFG view from your tent that you will not soon forget. List out your favorite superlatives: all apply to these scenic camping spots.
Sahale Glacier Camp – North Cascades National Park This just might be one of the best camping spots anywhere. The camp is situated atop 3 piles of glacial rubble at the toe of Sahale Glacier. Stone rings protect you from the wind. Goats often come for a visit. And the views! An ocean of jagged summits spread out before you… oh, and the toilet has the best view in the state!
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Milky Way above Sahale
Camped at Sahale Glacier Camp
Sahale Camp Panorama
Morning light and clouds at Sahale Camp
Sahale Camp Visitor
Sahale Evening
Sunrise, Steven Mather Wilderness – North Cascades National Park
View from the toilet
Isolation Lake – Enchantments, Alpine Lakes Wilderness Hiking up Aasgard Pass with a big pack is no picnic, but once you get up, Isolation Lake is there, waiting. This is a land of rocks and ice. The serrated peaks cut the sky and the crystal pure, icy cold lake, blue/green lake beckon. The images of the visit will stay imprinted in your brain.
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Isolation Lake Panorama, Alpine Lakes Wilderness
Campers along Isolation’s shore
Camped at Isolation Lake, nighttime!
Isolation Lake, Enchantments, Alpine Lakes Wilderness
Camped at Isolation Lake, Enchantments, Alpine Lakes Wilderness
Isolation
Point of the Arches, Olympic National Park Camping on the beach is always awesome: The ocean breeze, the sounds of the birds, the feel of the sand in between your toes, a fire at night. Point of the Arches has it all: surreal sea stacks jutting out of the Pacific, tide pools filled with critters and unbelievable sunsets.
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Point of the Arches, Olympic National Park
Point of the Arches, Olympic Wilderness
Sunset
Sunrise
Point of the Arches
Tidepool
Lakeview Ridge, Pasayten Wilderness This is one of the highest points along the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington, located just south of the Canadian border. The hike in is sublime, from the trailhead at Slate Peak you will meander up Rock Pass and shoot through Windy Pass onto Lakeview Ridge. Covered with wildflowers and affording views in every direction, you will have a hard time leaving.
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Wildflowers on Lakeview Ridge
On the PCT
PCT near Goat Lakes
Rainbows at Rock Pass
View from Lakeview Ridge
Flowers at Lakeview Ridge
View from the top
Evening at Lakeview Ridge
Late afternoon light
Snow Grass Flats, Goat Rocks Wilderness If you want to have it all, this is the place to come camp! Endless meadows carpeted with wildflowers, views of both Mount Rainier AND Mount Adams, great camping spots and…what else is there? From the Snow Grass Flats trail head hike up, up, up, the higher you camp, the better the views. Don’t miss a visit to the Knife’s Edge, its close by.
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Snow Grass Flats and Mount Adams
Mt Rainier
Lillies
Mount Rainier and Beargrass from the Lily Basin Trail
Knife’s Edge, Goat Rocks Wilderness
Milky Way over PCT
Mount Adams and Split Rock, along the Pacific Crest Trail in the Goat Rocks Wilderness
Split Rock
Paintbrush
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Washington’s 5 Best Camping Spots Washington's 5 Best Camping Spots You have to backpack to these spots, no ‘drive and park’ camping!
