Queets Campground

This gorgeous campground was peaceful and serene - until the weekend hit. Once it filled up, we were ready to go! At that point, 25+ people were sharing one pit toilet. Go during the week & enjoy the quiet, the clean river, and the star gazing.

Beautiful, secluded campground, a bit tricky to find, but worth the effort. The Google Maps GPS ended up taking us the wrong way and so we had to do a bit of navigating to get to the campground. I recommend using Gaia to navigate as it seemed to be the most accurate. The National Park Service website has a map on the page for Queets Campground that shows the campground as inaccessible coming from the Lower Queets River Road, but that turned out to be inaccurate. We arrived around 9pm on a Friday night and only 4 spots were taken. This was surprising given that it was a holiday weekend in June. The campground is beautiful, especially the 6-7 sites by the river. Bathroom was stocked with TP and hand sanitizer and the campground stayed quiet the whole weekend. We definitely recommend exploring the Sam’s Loop Trail. Lots of Salmonberries to snack on. We lost service on Hwy 101 and so don’t expect to have any contact with the outside world. All the better to enjoy the beauty and quiet.

Worried about my car's suspension the last few miles of the drive. It rained, within a relatively short time my camp site became a swamp, the single toilet was surrounded by a lake. Wouldn't recommend.

Spent two nights at NPS Queets Campground Sunday and Monday (July 19 & 20) and it was fantastic. We stayed at site 8 and found all the sites to be nicely spaced out. A number of sites along the water are a bit more open with less trees and brush dividing them, although again plenty of space. Numerous other sites had more vegetation dividing them. No cell service, no piped water, no garbage cans, and a single person vault toilet. Eliminates lots of folks from venturing in! Roads are for the most part extremely easy to drive on. Did see recent reviews about sketchy folks and we were a little apprehensive heading in. Driving to the campground we happened to see a Park Ranger on the road whose front passenger tire was taken out by a very nasty break in the asphalt portion as they were driving out. I believe we were on W Boundary Rd/NF-2405. So keep your eyes open on the drive out on the passenger side wheels on downhills, the gap was bad and could eat up lots of tires. Queets River Road had a wash out so we could not get to 101 via that route. We stopped to see if the Ranger needed assistance and honestly also to ask about issues noted in earlier reviews. They assured us of not having problems at the campground and it is visited daily by Rangers. We drove on and please note Google maps sent us down an incorrect Forest Service road right turn a little bit before the campground. So if you are on a narrow smooth one lane road turn around! Gaia GPS helped us confirm the right way after our mistake. Everyone camping during our two day stay were extremely quiet. We saw single folks, couples, groups of people, and families. Everyone was very friendly and thoughtful. Sam's loop trail was easy and beautiful. The bugs can build up so bring repellent and head netting for certain times of the day could be nice too. The river forging hiking access could be very challenging. You should have good quality trekking poles and footwear for extremely slippery rocks. Depth of water was knee high at points. Beautiful at night and would not hesitate to recommend to friends and family. Hope you have a chance to enjoy it as much as we did!

My main complaints are the lack of bedtime turn down services. Also, the Wifi was a bit weak. Overall I was hoping to have more trashy Californians, but I fear that they were eaten by bears, and vampires from Forks before they could find the place. Seriously, stay away. This is not the place that you want to visit. There is literally NOTHING here, including soy mocha latte chai smoothies