Depression Lake Campground

2024 update CLOSED, ROAD BLOCKED. SAD. Bunch of free spots have been blocked off in the area. Why you ask: Greedy/lazy forest Rangers! No toilets, no signs to the road down to the lake, only a few choice spots, bumpy one lane for both directions, road navigable by regular car, no fish of any size in the lake, steep trails down to the water, shallow and only good for small boat/kayak/sup/canoe. Free and typically all spots gone on the weekends. Beautiful views, osprey, blue jays, and bats at night. Wildlife is very real out here. Be aware. Rangers drove through but didn't get out of the vehicle. This lake is part of the PSE dam system and fills up and drains daily, loosing and gaining 4-6 feet of water. Baker boat launch is less than 5 minutes away. All in all a great free camp spot.

It has great potential but because it's free and no toilet on site, people leave their garage everywhere. The site we stayed at was clean-ish but had nails all over the place and signs of people crapping in the woods right next to camp. I left the site I used better than I found it, please do the same.

Very beautiful views. Great camping spots

Looks like some tweakers live here on-and-off. Discarded furniture, spray paint cans, junk food wrappers, and lots of wet wipes and piles of human feces surrounding the camp.

Beautiful spot, hardly anyone knows about this spot as there are more popular sites down the road. And the road to these ones is off the beaten path so to speak. The only thing that bummed me out was that me and my buddy went "fishing" in the lake for about 3 hours collectively and we didnt get so much as 1 bite. Not to mention it looked lifeless, the biggest thing I saw swimming around were tadpoles. So if you desire to go fishing here, I would check if it has recently been stocked. Otherwise you will most likely sit there for hours like my friend and I with nothing to show for it.