Alta Lake State Park has 32 utility spaces, trailer dump, 4 restrooms (one ADA) and 12 showers. Maximum site length is 38 feet (limited availability). Dump station available year-round, dump station fees are $5 per use. If you are camping, this fee is included in your campsite fee.

Alta Lake State Park Campground

I look forward to Alta Lake every year! I try to get my favorite spot on the end near the water and stay as many days as my life will allow. We take our kayaks and explore. Hiking trails are close by.

It can get crowded up in the RV section. People seem to enjoy themselves, it gets pretty loud and rowdy in the afternoon and evening. I am glad we have other options. Our Basecamp is only 16 feet long and we can run off the grid, so we actually can take it along the lake in a tent spot. If you are going to attempt it, it is truly a tight fit. Be careful! Sites are small, pull off is more accurate than pull through,and we used a lot of blocks to level up. I wouldn't think this place is known for privacy, but I think it makes up for it with location. The bathrooms are nice and have showers too.

Lots of fish, birds, turtles, and little critters running around. The lake is lovely. There are motorized boats allowed, kayaks and swimmers be careful!

My favorite annual lake trip

Alta Lake is a nice, clean park with decent tent sites. We had a site in Loop 2 on the right (on the lake side). It was away from the main area, parking lots, boat launch or store, so pretty quiet. Our site was sweet, it had a trail down to a small open sandy stretch of beach that was basically our own private beach. Took the cooler and a pop up tent and enjoyed the beach all day. We went in August and it was hot, the lake was super refreshing! (photo from WA State Parks & Rec commission)

Great tent site with essentially a private beach area.

Alta Lake was perfect! Weather cooperated and gave us mid 80’s the 4 nights/5 days we were there. The area is beautiful! Peaceful and quiet the whole time.

Peaceful 

Well besides the fact that the camping is literally site on top of site. Unless you like camping looking down on your neighbors camp an arms reach away. ( insert eye roll ) and the one guy ranger who “didn’t have time to talk to us” simply about switching sites because we booked online. And was sandwiched in between two large family sites. Anyways we ended up being helped by a nice lady ranger who made time and even checked on us later to see if we were all good. After changing sites. The campground was pretty empty btw and wasn’t a big deal to switch. Spending the day on this lake was Amazing!!! Warm water they had paddle boards and kayaks to rent by phone so that was a plus. So three stars for the lake. Two for the nice ranger and one for camp site layout.  Flushing toilets and pay showers available but Should be expected for $40 a night. 

The lake was nice......

The campground is beautiful. Because of the fire that destroyed the campground, there is next to no privacy on each campsite. 

Pros: 
-Stars were incredible- we saw the milky-way and a few shooting starts
-clean flushable bathrooms 
-views, access to hikes 
-cool lake to swim in 
-cellphone service (although we opted to put our phones in airplane mode to unplug) 
-family friendly 



Cons:
-noise: during quiet hours there was zero enforcement of quiet time. We had a camp next to us partying until 1am and another group up at 6am putting up a canopy and being incredibly loud 
-no privacy at campsites
-there is a fire ban, so if you are hoping for s’mores make sure to bring a propane stove (not a con for us, but may be for others) 
-bees: there were so many bees. If you are allergic I recommend staying away. We had a screened in canopy and still managed to get several inside
-not a ton of shade, mostly because of precious fires 

Beautiful views, zero privacy 

We we did enjoy staying here but two big things that were not so wonderful was the lake was very busy with skiers and tubers so anyone enjoying lighter vessels like kayaks had to watch out or go late in the evening when the big boats are off the water. The campsite had nice Landscaping but where stacked pretty closely together at least on the inner campsites. The rather short trail to the bluff behind the campground was rather steep in areas but well worth the trip  when you did get to the top.

This Campground was good for a single visit for us but will likely not return in exchange for a quieter and less visited park.

Beautiful but very busy!

We camped here in early October on Friday night. Only the lower loop was available. Our site was a standard one with no hookups. It cost $25 in the off season. There is a trail to the beach but not much of interest. There is a day use area if you want to swim or launch a boat. 

We camped here because my grandparents used to camp and fish here. 

It was quiet even though there were some private homes nearby

There were full hook up sites for the larger RVs so we didn’t have the sound of generators to bother us. 

Lake views and clean restrooms

We had a tent site up on the hill that was semi-private with beautiful views. Plenty of birds to wake you with the sunrise. I could see how the lake could be busy in peak months but it wasn’t while we were here. 

Beautiful location

You park really nervst the other, that’s why only 4 stars, hood for fishing, hook ups, great view, well maintained 