Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

This is one of the most quiet, relaxing campgrounds I've visited. We read previous reviews about mice and came prepared with plastic bins to secure our food, but we didn't see any trace of mouse activity our entire stay. Bring your own drinking water, the well water is fine for washing dishes (at your campsite) but probably doesn't taste that great. Beautiful views from the river, just a few steps from the campsites. We loved that Artist Point and all the trailheads are a short drive away.

We were in site 29 in the Riverside loop. What a beautiful campground! We were humbled being surrounded by such stately old trees. Made us sad to learn the much advertised Big Fir (still with a sign in camp) had in fact been taken down 11 years ago. Still an impressive sight to see how massive it was. We REALLY enjoyed the John Muir trail, it was like being in another world. Our trees in Michigan don't seem nearly as huge anymore ;-) At first we were disappointed we couldn't camp inside Mt. Rainier. Now we know how lucky we were to be at the Dalles.

Lovely campground, clean bathrooms, some road noise but the river mostly drowns it out if you are at a site close to it

An overnight in a WA fire lookout has always been on my bucket list. Heybrook Lookout was a great accessible option and I felt lucky to snag a reservation this year. Overall, it was a good experience but I wouldn't come back. The accessibility means that it's accessible to the public as well and as others have noted the quiet hours are not honored. Thankfully I didn't have anyone banging on the trap door but I did have two individuals show up at 5:45am to smoke and play music for an hour until the normal hikers started showing up. It really puts a damper on the experience and it's a shame because it's a great resource and it's clear a lot of time and effort has been put into maintaining the lookout.

Truly incredible views on all sides!! We took it easy and played a lot of cards. Very high traffic lookout with plenty of hooligans at odd hours. Additional signage at the top would probably help with this - most didn't realize there were folks staying in the lookout. There were some signs under the sink that you could try putting up (we didn't realize they were there until our last morning). Pit toilet took us some time to find. It does have a sign and is a wooden toilet so don't settle for the literal dirt pit on a different trail off-shoot!

Just a wonderful place to be.