The Wenas Creek Campground is very primitive. No water, no toilets, no
marked campsites, no reservations, no phones, no electricity, no
anything. Only signs of civilization are some dirt roads and fences. It
is an open pine forest. Widely spaced trees, flat ground, with little
undergrowth. Ground is covered with a wild plant called Lupine and
grass. Set up camp anywhere you want. This time of year, no open fires
are allowed.

In the middle of the week there will probably be nobody there. There is
space for hundreds of campsites. I haven't birded there this late in the
year but my guess it is pretty quiet compared to earlier in the season. If
you do go birding there check out the riparian areas at the east edge of
the campground and at Hardy and Black Canyons on the paved road a couple
miles before the turn off to the campground. More information is available
at the following web sites.

http://www.nwlink.com/~cyrus/wenas.html

http://wa.audubon.org/wastwenas.htm

Ted Becker
Monroe, WA

At 02:34 AM 07/14/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>We finally decided on our preliminary itinerar for our first few days
>in Washington, and our first stop will be the campground at Wenas
>Creek.
>Can someone who's been there please give us some information
>what the campground is like? In particular we need to know what
>the facilities are like there and whether there's any danger that the
>campground is fully booked at this time of the year. (We'll arrive in
>that area during the week, i.e. probably next Tuesday or Wednesday.)
>I couldn't find any information on this on the net.
>I'd also be interested in any information on what the birding is like at
>Wenas Creek at this time of the year.
>
>Hermann Oldenburg
>Hannover/Germany