Cougar Rock Group Campground

The campsite is quiet and clean, with enough space for at least 8 tents, and also it’s the perfect location to go star watch on skyline tail at night.

The group camp was wonderful. It was set off by itself. There were 3 or 4 tent sites that were flat. 5 cars could be parked there. Nice fire pit and lots of places to hang a hammock. Close to the paradise side of the mountain. Loved it and well worth the price.

The group site at Cougar Rock was amazing! This was our first time booking one and we loved having all of our group in one site with plenty of space among ourselves and multiple picnic tables, a restroom close by, and lots of room for the kids to play too. We are planning to stay here again next year!

This reservation system is terrible and a pain to use. The Rainier website and history tells us we can make group site reservations 1 year in advance, but this lame system does not allow that. Further, since this reservation system only allows 60 days in advance (or whatever the number is) you end up having to book the entire week of the dates you actually want in order to get the later days, with the intent of booking more days than needed up front and cancelling those you don't need at the start of period.

For over decade we could simply call Cougar Rock and reserve dates, but no more. Now, calling the campground has rangers telling us to call recreation.gov for more info, and the people we reach there tell us to call the campground to get more info. Lame and lamer.

Everything in life isn't made better by computers or a lack of human contact.

Great place! Love everything about cougar rock group site. Except directly next to us was a group of 4 Ripken. Group sites are for 12 or more. We could have used the site and tried to reserve it, but they had it reserved. Not sure how to resolve this or if nps even cares. But this was not cool on their part.

Very cool campsite water toilet available. We booked the group camp plenty of space. Tons of wood from fallen trees no need to bring firewood. Must see: paradise skyline trail golden trail mrytle fall Christina fall snow lake reflection lake. Avoid Friday entrance a mile long we camped Tue to Fri will highly recommend avoid weekend

I love this area in Cougar Rock. I've stayed in the group campsites 4 times now. We were able to fit 3 big family tents here. The fire pits (3) were kind of in an awkward position and would be my only complaint, but we made it work.