Noisy Creek

As a local that comes here every year with young children to use the day use spots, to swim on hot days or have family gatherings. The boaters that camp, take over the place! Boaters ruin this nice swimming spot more each year. They dock their boats at the day use beach going in and out around children and paddle boarders. Sometimes flooring it, knocking their friends/people off their boards on purpose. And causing waves that could cause children and others to fall on sharp large rocks in the water. There was 3 boats on the beach my last trip there. I talked to the camp host and he said it's ok to dock boats on the beach. But it's a swimming area how can that be allowed? And there is a boat dock for boats to use, a safe distance away from the main swimming area/day use spots.
The camp hosts are not keeping swimmers safe allowing this.
This is the nicest beach with shade on Sullivan lake and it doesn't feel safe anymore! It's not ok being sandwiched around boaters that may or may not act a fool and hurt your loved ones!!
I think its absolutely horrible that they allow boaters to be that close to swimmers!! Put back the missing swimming area buoys!!! So boaters keep out of the swimming area please!
I found 3 RCW they are in violation of: (RCW 8.52.230 Proximity to swimmers) (RCW 79A.60.190 speed limit) (RCW 79A.60.170 Operator responsibility)

The family that was hosting while we were there was amazing! And the bathrooms were the cleanest we have ever seen them there.

Great location for hiking and water sports. There is a new viewpoint created by the USFS of Pee Wee Falls that is within an hour of the campground on the east bank Pend Oreille River. Extremely quiet campground.

Quiet and pleasant except for bees, mosquitoes, flies.
Never could find campground host to ask questions.

It would have been very good other than the fact that there needs to be more beach access and not let people basically camp in the day access ( old lakeside camp sights) so other people can never use it. It was irritating. We were there three nights / 4 days and never saw the camp host. Other than that, it was great.

The camping experience was great as always. However, I had to change my reservation ( shortened by one day) and to do that the whole reservation was cancelled and rebooked one day less. The daily rate had gone up since I made the original reservation and I was charged the new rate for the reservation. That gave only a $9 refund for the day less. It seems a backhanded way to retroactively charge the increase in rates.

Quiet and peaceful. Beautiful scenery.

Camp hosts were kind and helpful. Vault toilets were clean and in good shape. Quick walk to Noisy Creek and Sullivan Lake. Swimming near the boat launch was a decent area to swim, but there are several other little beaches in the day use area. A little bit of noise from Sullivan Lake Road, but not very often (i.e. loud motorcycles on occasion). Saw a few snakes (small Garter like snakes) swimming in the Lake and one in the camp site as we were leaving.

My family and I have made Sullivan lake a tradition for the past 8 or 9 years! The walk to the beach is a little far but worth it! It's a very beautiful path with a bridge and a fresh mountain spring! The view from the beach makes you never want to leave! Most of the sites are semi private and supports multiple tents. I look forward to my 6 day stay every year! Stay beautiful

Well maintained campground, no complaints there. Only real comment is that it is laid out primarily for people with RVs. The tent pads are minimal and there's no real choice about where to put the tent - and it had better be a small one. I saw people pitch their tent in the RV pad because there was no room otherwise. Good visual privacy between sites but they tend to back right onto the site behind you. One friend in a different site said it felt like the people behind them were right in his site. But other than that it's a nice campground, nice location, good access to the lake with a little beach and a couple of hiking trails and a boat ramp.