Olympic National Park wilderness

Olympic National Park backcountry campsites

Recreation.gov does not show you the Olympic National Park wilderness permit one campsite at a time. It asks you to choose a Starting Area first and then offers the camps inside it, and the permit listing does not tell you which camps those are. This page lists the campsites Bearpath covers by park district, and for each district says which Starting Area the booking grid names for its camps, what kind of site each camp is, and how it is booked wherever that is not the ordinary online route. Each name links to that camp’s own page of standing facts.

Sections are the park districts recorded for each camp in the permit data, ordered the way the booking grid orders its Starting Areas, with any district the grid does not list after them. Recreation.gov’s booking grid named a Starting Area for 139 of these 153 camps, and each section says which. For the other 14 it named none, so no Starting Area is claimed for them.

Recreation.gov’s booking grid also offers a PNT Thru Permit Starting Area. Bearpath does not list those camps yet, so none of them appears below.

Bearpath states standing facts only. Nothing here says whether a night is available, or whether a road, trail or beach is open or passable — check dates in the planner, and conditions with the park.

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Staircase

Recreation.gov’s booking grid names Staircase as the Starting Area for 18 of these 21 camps. 21 campsites in this district. 3 group sites and 4 stock camps. 18 camps are selected online on Recreation.gov; 3 camps go through the WIC when they are a trip’s first night.

Dosewallips

Recreation.gov’s booking grid names Dosewallips as the Starting Area for 12 of these 16 camps. 16 campsites in this district. 1 group site and 4 stock camps. 12 camps are selected online on Recreation.gov; 4 camps go through the WIC when they are a trip’s first night.

Hurricane

Recreation.gov’s booking grid names Hurricane as the Starting Area for all 17 of these camps. 17 campsites in this district. 2 group sites and no stock camps. Every camp here is selected online on Recreation.gov.

Elwha

Recreation.gov’s booking grid names Elwha as the Starting Area for 9 of these 13 camps. 13 campsites in this district. No group sites and no stock camps. 9 camps are selected online on Recreation.gov; 4 camps go through the WIC when they are a trip’s first night.

Sol Duc

Recreation.gov’s booking grid names Sol Duc as the Starting Area for all 26 of these camps. 26 campsites in this district. 3 group sites and 1 stock camp. 25 camps are selected online on Recreation.gov; 1 camp is booked only through the WIC.

Bogachiel

Recreation.gov’s booking grid names Bogachiel as the Starting Area for all 4 of these camps. 4 campsites in this district. No group sites and 1 stock camp. Every camp here is selected online on Recreation.gov.

Hoh

Recreation.gov’s booking grid names Hoh as the Starting Area for 18 of these 19 camps. 19 campsites in this district. 7 group sites and 3 stock camps. 18 camps are selected online on Recreation.gov; 1 camp goes through the WIC when it is a trip’s first night.

Queets

Recreation.gov’s booking grid names Queets as the Starting Area for both of these camps. 2 campsites in this district. No group sites and no stock camps. Every camp here is selected online on Recreation.gov.

Quinault

Recreation.gov’s booking grid names Quinault as the Starting Area for 13 of these 15 camps. 15 campsites in this district. No group sites and no stock camps. 12 camps are selected online on Recreation.gov; 1 camp is booked only through the WIC; 2 camps go through the WIC when they are a trip’s first night.

North Coast

Recreation.gov’s booking grid names North Coast as the Starting Area for all 14 of these camps. 14 campsites in this district. No group sites and no stock camps. Every camp here is selected online on Recreation.gov.

South Coast

Recreation.gov’s booking grid names South Coast as the Starting Area for all 6 of these camps. 6 campsites in this district. No group sites and no stock camps. Every camp here is selected online on Recreation.gov.

Sources

Campsite names, districts, site types and booking methods come from the Recreation.gov permit listing and from NPS data, refreshed daily. The Starting Area step, and the Starting Areas each section names, are what Bearpath recorded from the Recreation.gov permit’s own booking grid on 2026-08-04; they are a Bearpath observation, not a statement by Recreation.gov or NPS.

Bearpath does not republish Recreation.gov’s own campsite descriptions.