Campground · North Cascades National Park
A shaded Goodell Creek basecamp made for a whole group.
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The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
North Cascades Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for North Cascades National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Goodell Creek: Camping Beside the Skagit“You're approaching Goodell Creek Campground, a small camp in old-growth forest beside the Skagit River. It's a good fit for tents and small RVs, with a twenty-foot limit for RVs and trailers.”
Plays as you drive up to Lower Goodell Group Campground in the Parkwolf North Cascades Tour Guide.
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Lower Goodell Group Campground is a seasonal drive-in campground beside Goodell Creek, north of SR 20 near Newhalem. It has two separately reserved group sites, each with five tent pads, a timber picnic pavilion with tables, a fire grate and space for up to 50 people. The shaded creekside setting is the draw; nearby trails are a short walk or drive away.
Each site has a seasonal vault toilet, but there’s no drinking water, hookups, showers, dump station or store. Bring water for your group. Black bears are active here, and bear boxes are provided, so keep food and scented items in a box or a hard-sided vehicle.
Wildlife
101 sightingsMountain GoatMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
70 sightingsBlack BearMost seen around 8 PMSighting map
20 sightingsMule DeerMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
77 sightingsSooty GrouseMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
23 sightingsWhite-tailed PtarmiganMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
75 sightingsWestern ToadMost seen around 8 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across North Cascades. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
Keep exploring
EasyTo Know a Tree Nature Trail1 mi · 45 min · 0.6 mi awayTree signs turn this easy riverside walk into a small nature lesson.
EasySterling Munro Trail0.2 mi · 12 min · 0.7 mi awayA brief wooden walk opens onto a Picket Range viewpoint.
EasyRiver Loop Trail1.8 mi · 45 min · 0.7 mi awayA forest loop to a gravel bar with broad Skagit River views.
EasyRock Shelter Trail0.6 mi · 30 min · 0.9 mi awayA short accessible walk to a 1,400-year-old hunting camp.
EasyLower Newhalem Creek Trail0.6 mi · 30 min · 1 mi awayCreekside walk to a cedar glade still finding its way back.
EasyTrail of the Cedars Nature Walk0.5 mi · 30 min · 1.2 mi awayCross the suspension bridge for an easy old-growth river loop.
EasyLadder Creek Falls Trail0.5 mi · 30 min · 1.3 mi awayA half-mile waterfall loop with a hydroelectric past.
ChallengingThornton Lakes Trail9.1 mi · 6 hr · 2.9 mi awayA proper alpine lake waits beyond the long forest climb.
Campground · 0.3 mi awayGoodell Creek CampgroundSleep under old-growth trees with the Skagit close by.
Campground · 0.6 mi awayNewhalem Creek CampgroundA riverside base with old-growth loops and Newhalem within walking reach.
Visitor center · 0.7 mi awayNorth Cascades Visitor CenterA relief map makes the peaks and roads easier to place.
Sight · 0.8 mi awaySterling Munro ViewpointA short, accessible boardwalk opens on the Picket Range.
Sight · 1.1 mi awayTemple of PowerA gazebo built from hardware that once helped power Seattle.
Sight · 1.1 mi awayNewhalem Creek PowerhouseA 1921 powerhouse that helped build Newhalem and Gorge Dam.
Visitor center · 1.1 mi awaySkagit Information CenterHydroelectric history and local help on the road through Newhalem.
Sight · 1.1 mi awayOld Number Six LocomotiveClimb into an old steam engine and ring its brass bell.Parkwolf’s North Cascades ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
