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This campground, located along Cle Elum River on Salmon La Sac road, offers 10 single campsites. [ ]( https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MEDIA/fseprd762986.jpg) [Click image for information]
From Cle Elum,WA head north on Highway 903 / Salmon La Sac Road for 16 miles. Campground is on the left after Cle Elum Lake.
Nice camp with river access. Kind of a bit noisey due to the proximity to the road. Many atvs and other exessively loud vehicles.
We drove out in a Friday night to the Cle Elum area for a two night camping trip. Lucky enough, there was a good spot with a river and mountain(s) view at the Red Mountain Campground. A night was $14 and you get a camping spot with a great view, if you are lucky, with a firepit and a picnic table and well-maintained bathroom.
No drinking water/shower or any other amenities available.
The views from this campsite are spectacular! It is so beautiful and the water is perfect. I arrived around 2:00pm on a Friday in mid-July and there were 2 spots available (out of 10). After about an hour all the spots were filled, so if you were planning on finding a spot after work on a Friday, then this isn't the place. There were multiple people that came around 5ish looking for spots and couldn't find any. Different times of the year may be different, but from what I experienced it filled up fast. There is a bathroom available and a dumpster for getting rid of waste which is nice and probably helps the campground stay clean. The only downside was that it was pretty crowded during the weekend and the campsites were very close. If you're looking for a secluded place to pitch a tent in the woods, this is not the place for you. You can see everyone else's tent and some of the spots literally touch each other. For the most part everyone was quiet though and noise was never an issue, but it definitely didn't feel private. On Saturdays and Sundays it got REALLY crowded because people just came for the day to swim in the river and there was probably about 20 people (and 6/7 cars) parked right at the front blocking the walk down to the water. If you don't mind small crowds of people then you'll be fine, but it wasn't really my thing. I bet if you can go during the week though it's amazing and quiet.
My friend and I stayed here in the last site, and it was wonderfully secluded from the rest of the campground, as the adjacent site was empty. Getting to the bathroom was a bit of a trek, but our site also had easy access to the lake via a small trail, and a nice amount of cover. It’s pretty close to the road, so you do get some car noise from time to time, but I didn’t find it too bad. The entrance is extremely easy to miss, though; I ended up in the day use area at first, wondering what I’d missed. There’s a sign on the main road, but it’s on the left, while the little road leading to the campground is on the right.
