Olympic National Park RV Camping: Kalaloch, Hoh, Mora & Sol Duc (2026)

Olympic National Park has more than a dozen campgrounds, but only a handful fit an RV comfortably and only two have hookups. Kalaloch (170 sites, $24, year-round) is the coast campground; Hoh Rain Forest (78 sites, $24) is the rainforest one; Mora (94 sites, $24) sits by Rialto Beach; and Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort runs a 17-site RV park with water and electric ($58) next to the 82-site Sol Duc campground and the hot springs pools. Most NPS sites fit 21 feet, a few take 35, and none have hookups.

Olympic is three parks in one — glaciated peaks, temperate rainforest and 70 miles of wild Pacific coast — wrapped around US-101 with no road through the middle. For RVers that means a loop trip with a different campground every two nights, and it means paying close attention to length limits, because this park was built for tents and small trailers. This guide covers every RV-accessible campground, what each costs, when it reserves and which rigs it fits.

We verified sites, fees, length limits and 2026 reservation dates against the NPS Olympic camping page, and checked the Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort site for the resort’s own details. If you are pairing Olympic with Mount Rainier, our Mount Rainier RV camping guide covers the volcano side of the state.

Quick answer: For the coast, book Kalaloch (Recreation.gov May 15–Sept 20, 2026) or Mora (May 15–Sept 20). For the rainforest, Hoh (June 12–Sept 8). For hot springs, Sol Duc Hot Springs RV Park for hookups or Sol Duc Campground for $33 dry sites (both Recreation.gov, March 20–Nov 1). Keep the rig at 21 feet for the most site choice; 35 feet is the ceiling anywhere in the park, and hookups exist only at Sol Duc and Log Cabin Resort.

Olympic National Park RV campgrounds compared#

Campground	Area	Sites	RV length	Hookups	Fee (2026)	Reservations	Season
Kalaloch	Pacific coast, US-101	170	21 ft; a few 35 ft	None; dump $10	$24	Recreation.gov May 15–Sept 20, 2026; FCFS otherwise	Year-round
Hoh Rain Forest	Hoh River valley	78	21 ft; a few up to 35 ft	None; no dump	$24	Recreation.gov June 12–Sept 8, 2026; FCFS otherwise	Year-round
Mora	Near Rialto Beach, La Push road	94	21 ft; a few 35 ft	None; dump $10	$24	Recreation.gov May 15–Sept 20, 2026; FCFS otherwise	Year-round
Sol Duc Campground	Sol Duc valley	82	21 ft; a few 35 ft	None; dump $10	$33	Recreation.gov Mar 20–Nov 1, 2026	Until winter road closure; primitive after
Sol Duc Hot Springs RV Park	At the resort	17	26–36 ft	Water + electric	$58	Recreation.gov Mar 20–Nov 1, 2026	Resort season
Fairholme	West end Lake Crescent	88	21 ft; some up to 35 ft	None; dump $10	$24	Recreation.gov May 15–Sept 29, 2026; FCFS otherwise	Apr 25–Sept 29, 2026
Heart O’ the Hills	Hurricane Ridge road	97	21 ft; a few 35 ft	None; no dump	$24	First-come, self-register	Year-round; walk-in in heavy snow
Log Cabin Resort RV & Campground	East end Lake Crescent	38	Up to 35 ft	Some full hookup (electric + sewer)	$25–$44	Phone, 866-405-2950	May–Oct 2026
South Beach	Coast south of Kalaloch	55	21 ft; a few 35 ft	None	$20	First-come, self-register	May 19–Oct 10, 2026
Staircase	Southeast, Lake Cushman	49	21 ft; a few 35 ft	None	$24	Recreation.gov July 8–Sept 29; FCFS otherwise	Seasonal
Ozette	Lake Ozette, northwest coast	15	21 ft	None	$20	First-come, self-register	Year-round; some sites flood

Not RV-accessible: Graves Creek (RVs and trailers not allowed), Queets (not recommended), Deer Park (tents only, 5,400 feet). All data is from the NPS camping page as fetched for this guide; the NPS notes any campground may close temporarily during severe weather.

Kalaloch Campground: the Pacific coast campground#

Kalaloch (pronounced “clay-lock”) is the campground most people mean when they search “Kalaloch campground Washington.” It sits on a bluff above a wide sand beach on the park’s southern coastal strip, right on US-101, with Kalaloch Lodge and its store and restaurant a short walk away.

• Location: US-101, southern coastal section, roughly 35 miles south of Forks.
• Hookups: None. Dump station, $10 per use. Potable water.
• Sites: 170.
• Max rig length: Sites for 21 feet; a few for 35 feet.
• Cost: $24 per night (NPS 2026).
• Reservations: Recreation.gov May 15 to September 20, 2026; first-come the rest of the year.
• Season: Year-round; may close in severe weather.
• Best feature: Bluff-top loops where the surf is the soundtrack all night, and beach access down a short trail. Ruby Beach and the Kalaloch beach trailheads (Beach 1 through 4) are minutes away.

The bluff-edge sites are the prize and the shortest; the 35-foot sites are few, so bring the smallest rig you can and book the day the window opens for July and August. Winter storm-watching in a small self-contained rig is one of the great Northwest camping experiences, and Kalaloch is open for it. Kalaloch is also the northern end of a coast drive that continues into Oregon; our Oregon coast RV camping guide picks up from Astoria south.

Hoh Rain Forest Campground#

The Hoh Rain Forest Campground is at the end of the Upper Hoh Road, 18 miles off US-101, at the Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center and the Hall of Mosses trail. It is old-growth Sitka spruce and bigleaf maple draped in moss, and it rains a lot — on the order of 12 feet a year in the valley.

• Location: End of Upper Hoh Road, west side of the park, about 30 miles from Forks.
• Hookups: None. No dump station.
• Sites: 78.
• Max rig length: Sites for 21 feet; a few up to 35 feet.
• Cost: $24 per night.
• Reservations: Recreation.gov June 12 to September 8, 2026; first-come otherwise.
• Season: Year-round; may close in severe weather.
• Best feature: You are camped inside the rainforest at the trailheads for the Hall of Mosses, Spruce Nature Trail and the Hoh River Trail. Roosevelt elk graze the river bar.

Because there is no dump station, arrive with empty tanks. The Upper Hoh Road is paved and fine for a 35-foot rig, but sites are tight and treed; a 21-foot camper van or a truck camper gets the best sites. Summer reservations are competitive; the shoulder months in May and late September, when it is first-come, are our favorite time to be here.

Mora Campground and Rialto Beach#

Mora is the campground for the La Push and Rialto Beach section of the coast, 14 miles west of Forks in the Quillayute River bottom, under big spruce and cedar.

• Location: Mora Road off La Push Road, 2 miles from Rialto Beach.
• Hookups: None. Dump station, $10 per use.
• Sites: 94.
• Max rig length: Sites for 21 feet; a few for 35 feet.
• Cost: $24 per night.
• Reservations: Recreation.gov May 15 to September 20, 2026; first-come otherwise.
• Season: Year-round; may close in severe weather.
• Best feature: Rialto Beach’s driftwood and sea stacks and the Hole-in-the-Wall walk at low tide, plus Second and Third Beach across the river at La Push.

Mora is forested and shady, not on the water; you drive to the beach. It is usually a little easier to reserve than Kalaloch and makes a good pairing with Hoh, since both are staged out of Forks.

Sol Duc Hot Springs: RV park, campground and the pools#

“Hot springs Sol Duc” is the most searched phrase on the peninsula, and there are two ways to camp there. Both are on the Sol Duc Hot Springs Road, 12 miles up the valley from US-101 near the west end of Lake Crescent, and both are on Recreation.gov.

Sol Duc Hot Springs RV Park (with hookups)Park details →#

• Location: At Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort.
• Hookups: Water and electric.
• Sites: 17.
• Max rig length: 26 to 36 feet.
• Cost: $58 per night (NPS listing).
• Reservations: Recreation.gov, March 20 to November 1, 2026.
• Best feature: The only hookup sites on the west side of the park, steps from the mineral pools, the resort restaurant and the Sol Duc Falls trailhead.

Sol Duc Campground (NPS-listed, dry)Park details →#

• Hookups: None. Dump station, $10 per use.
• Sites: 82.
• Max rig length: Sites for 21 feet; a few for 35 feet.
• Cost: $33 per night.
• Reservations: Recreation.gov, March 20 to November 1, 2026. Primitive camping allowed after the season until the winter road closure.
• Best feature: River sites in old growth, a short walk to the pools.

The resort states that hot springs pool access is included for its lodging guests. We could not confirm from the resort’s page whether RV and campground guests get included access or pay day-use, nor the current pool fee and hours, so budget for day-use admission and confirm with the resort at 888-896-3818 before you build a trip around it. Sol Duc Falls, a mile-and-a-half round trip from the road end, is the walk to do regardless.

Fairholme, Heart O’ the Hills and Log Cabin Resort: the Lake Crescent and Port Angeles side#

The north side of the park along US-101 and around Lake Crescent has three RV-usable options within an hour of Port Angeles.

• Fairholme Campground: 88 sites at the west end of Lake Crescent, sites for 21 feet and some up to 35, no hookups, $10 dump station, $24 a night. Recreation.gov May 15 to September 29, 2026, first-come otherwise; open April 25 to September 29, 2026 (closed April 1–24 and October). Lake swimming and the Spruce Railroad Trail. Closest NPS campground to Sol Duc.
• Heart O’ the Hills Campground: 97 sites at the base of the Hurricane Ridge road, 5 miles above Port Angeles, sites for 21 feet and a few for 35, no hookups, no dump station, $24 a night, first-come and self-register, open year-round (walk-in only in heavy snow). The base for Hurricane Ridge and the most convenient in-park campground to Port Angeles groceries and fuel.
• Log Cabin Resort RV & Campground: A concession resort at the east end of Lake Crescent with 38 sites up to 35 feet, some full hookup with electric and sewer, $25 to $44 a night, flush toilets and showers, open May to October 2026, booked by phone at 866-405-2950. The only other hookup camping in the park besides Sol Duc.

For a big rig or a long stay, Port Angeles and Sequim private parks with full hookups sit just outside the park; the NPS campgrounds above are the in-park choices.

Practical notes for RVers#

Rig size: 21 feet is the number#

Every NPS campground in Olympic lists “sites for 21 feet, a few for 35 feet.” Read that literally: the 35-foot sites are a small minority and go first. A camper van, truck camper or trailer under 21 feet can choose almost any site; a 30-footer needs to filter Recreation.gov by length and accept fewer options; anything over 36 feet does not fit anywhere in the park, including Sol Duc RV Park. Our national park RV rig size limits guide puts Olympic among the tightest big parks. Big rigs should base in Forks, Port Angeles or Sequim and day-trip.

Reservations and first-come strategy#

The 2026 pattern is a summer Recreation.gov window at each popular campground and first-come outside it. Kalaloch, Mora, Fairholme: May 15 onward. Hoh: June 12. Sol Duc: March 20. Staircase: July 8. Heart O’ the Hills and South Beach never reserve. If summer is sold out, the realistic first-come play is Heart O’ the Hills on a weekday, or arriving at Kalaloch or Hoh before the reservation window opens in mid-May and early June.

Power, water and dumping#

No NPS campground has hookups. Dump stations at Kalaloch, Mora, Sol Duc and Fairholme are $10 per use; Hoh and Heart O’ the Hills have none. Generators are typically limited to daytime hours in the loops; solar struggles under the rainforest canopy, so batteries and a fuel budget matter more here than in the desert parks. Our RV power without hookups guide covers a wet-climate setup.

Best time to camp#

July through September is the dry season and the reservation season. June is green and quieter but wet in the rainforest. Kalaloch, Hoh, Mora and Heart O’ the Hills stay open all year, and October through April is first-come, uncrowded and dramatic on the coast; be ready for the NPS’s stated possibility of temporary storm closures. Sol Duc’s season runs March 20 to November 1.

The loop#

The classic Olympic RV loop from Seattle: Heart O’ the Hills or Log Cabin (Hurricane Ridge and Lake Crescent), Sol Duc (hot springs and falls), Mora (Rialto and La Push), Hoh (rainforest), Kalaloch (coast), then south on US-101. Two nights each is nine to ten days. From Kalaloch you can continue down the Washington and Oregon coast; our Oregon coast guide and, further south, the Redwood coast RV camping guide extend the same rainforest-and-surf trip to California.

Where Olympic ranks#

Olympic will not top a list built on hookups and pull-throughs, but Kalaloch’s bluff sites and the Hoh’s rainforest loops are on our best national park campgrounds for RVs shortlist for setting. Bring a small rig and low expectations for utilities, and this is one of the best camping parks in the country.

The bottom line#

RV camping in Olympic National Park is a small-rig, dry-camping, two-nights-and-move proposition. Kalaloch for the coast, Hoh for the rainforest, Mora for Rialto Beach, Sol Duc for the hot springs (RV park with water and electric, or the $33 campground), Fairholme and Heart O’ the Hills for Lake Crescent and Hurricane Ridge, and Log Cabin Resort if you want hookups on the lake. All NPS sites are $24 or $33 in 2026 and reserve on Recreation.gov in season. Pair it with the mountain in our Mount Rainier RV camping guide, and find the rest of the state at our Washington RV camping hub.