Walupt Lake Campground — Hotel in Tieton

Trailhead for Nannie Ridge Loop Trail is located here. Parking for the overnight hikers is very limited and Northwest Forest Pass is required. Get there early. We squeezed into the last spot at 7am very tightly, in our Toyota FJ, right next to the shitters. The Nannie Ridge trail up to the peak is moderately strenuous as you get all of your elevation gain at the start. Continue upward and when you begin to level out and see sky don't miss the peak trail on the left up to Nannie Peak. It's about a half mile or so up to the remnants of the old fire lookout. Once down and back on the loop trail it's all gravy to Sheep Lake. Camp there for the night. Several spots to choose from. Warning: mosquitoes were VERY abundant but easily repelled with DEET 98% and netting. Enjoy a swim, the sunset and a very starry night sky. The rest of the loop awaits you the next morning. About 100 yards past Sheep Lake is the trail connection to the Pacific Crest Trail. Take a right to go south and continue on the loop. Easy walking for the next several miles and constant views of Mt. Adams. Where the PCT intersects with the Walupt Lake Trail is a good spot to hydrate, adjust packs, have lunch and get ready for the home stretch back to Walupt Lake campground. From here, you'll lose 1000 feet in elevation down into a drainage basin. A good stretch of trail was a rocky, washed out series of messy switchbacks along Walupt Creek. Easily the worst section of the loop. At the bottom you'll enjoy a nearly flat walk through the forest next to the lake and back to the parking lot. Happy hiking. Map distance is about 15 miles. My final pedometer reading said 24...

We were there 9/14 - 9/15/2024. Beautiful lake, beautiful to walk around. Kids had great fun just messing around. We didn't bring our dog or a boat, but there were plenty of people who had, and they were having a blast, so we wish we had brought our doggo. If I was rating it just on the nature, 4/5.

We set up our tents and started a campfire inside the metal ring. The park host came around in his truck and said there is a fire ban, only propane stoves, no wood fires. From 8/9 - 10/1 I think. This was not posted on the website, as far as we could tell. It was posted on camp message boards, but who checks those carefully while they're driving into a camp? And what good is that information when you're already at the campsite and have no way to prepare?

To add insult and ire, that evening the camp host built a big bonfire next to his camper, with people gathered around. We just looked at it in disbelief on our way to the toilet. I can accept us being at fault (to a degree) for not researching the fire rules, but the hypocrisy was blatant and insulting.

Clean shack-inside hole-in-floor toilets. Toilets pitch black at high noon. No water faucets, not even for non-potable water. All the faucets seem to have been disconnected/disassembled. No other facilities that we...

The campground was beautiful, but we had a major emergency and the camp hosts were no help what so ever. My son fell 80 feet and needed to be rescued. There was no service on the cell phones and when I asked the camp hosts the woman sat painting her toe nails while I begged for help of any kind. Her response was we have no service no internet or WiFi and continued to sit. A ranger happened to be in the camp ground and went to his truck to radio. He was gone for about 20 minutes. Meanwhile the husband of the camp host showed up and said they had an emergency beacon. The wife (that said they have nothing) gave it to me in the box and walked away I asked how to use it and she had no idea. It would not power on, apparently not charged. It took me 4.5 hours to get my son rescued. These people should not be camp hosts if they have no capacity to help in a remote location. They host a campground on a lake with no ability to problem solved or reach help. I in the future will have an in reach device or...