White River Campground
October 2026
About
Overview
White River Campground is available on a first come first serve basis only.
The campground sits at 4,440 ft in elevation, 1200 ft higher than any other campground with amenities in Mount Rainier National Park. For this reason, winter lingers long and comes early. White River often opens at the end of June or early July and stays open in late September. The campground has are 88 campsites that cost $20 a night.
There is a 27 ft RV limit and an 18ft trailer limit.
Use the Recreation.gov Mobile App to pay the nightly camping fee when you arrive at the campground. Prior to arriving at the campground download the Recreation.gov App to your mobile device and create a Recreation.gov account.
Recreation
There are plenty of hiking opporunities as well as rich ecological sytems that will interest amateur botanists and mycologists.
Facilities
White River Campground has flush toilets, fire grates in the campsites and access to potable water. There is no dump station, laundry, Wi-Fi or cellphone service at this time. The maximum size for an RV is 27 feet and 18 ft for a tralier.
Natural Features
This high elevation campground is located near the White River and in a lovely forest. Trails crisscross the campground, including the Wonderland, Burrough Mountain and Glacier Basin Camp Trails.
Nearby Attractions
Trails: Glacier Basin, Burroughs Mountain, the Wonderland and the River Trail.
The White River
Ten miles to Sunrise
Five miles from Highway 410
Four miles to the a Ranger Station
Charges & Cancellations
Currently White River is a first-come, first-served campgrounds so there are no cancellations.
Amenities
Is White River Campground fully booked?
A campground showing no availability is almost never full for good. People cancel — plans change, weather turns, someone books three weekends and keeps one — and the site goes straight back into the booking system, usually without warning and often at odd hours. The reason sold-out campgrounds feel impossible is not that sites never free up; it is that nobody is watching at the moment they do.
CampHawk watches White River Campground for you. We recheck it every 15 seconds, around the clock, and the moment a site opens we send a text, an email and a push notification — and on Recreation.gov we can put the site straight into your cart, so it is held while you get to your phone.
Searching is free and needs no account — the calendar above is live right now. Watching White River Campground for cancellations is the paid part.