Forest Road 29 Dispersed Camping

We were never alone, but there were much fewer campers during the week. There was a mix of tent campers and all kinds of RVs, as there's room for any size rig. There is a mix of shade and sun, but it it's too shady for your solar, you can continue on Forest Road 29 for a few nights and there is another clearing with much more sun.

It is a great spot to explore the northern and western side of the Olympic Peninsula. We also enjoyed taking our bikes just down the road to the Olympic Discovery Trail - highly recommended. You can fill water jugs at the campground across the highway, just a3 minute drive, at no cost.

Also, don't be deterred by the road closed sign at the entrance - if you read the small print it says that it's closed 18 miles in, so access is no problem.

we came here for a couple days of boondocking after leaving the Forks elks lodge.

when you turn off Hwy 101 and come down past the Trail head sign on the left you turn onto a nice mostly single lane paved road..

you will go appz 1 mile up NF-29 (national forest) road to the camping area on the right.. (there is another turn off before it look for the opening just back from NF road).

When we got here there was a Tenter in the back left area of the opening, a smaller RV in the front left area and during the afternoon a 36ft 5th wheel came in a well.

I estimated there could be some 6 or more units in here is needed..

this put you about 20 mins to Lake Crescent area and the trail heads and a nice bike, Tracks to trails area, as well. The lake and Lodge were very nice and there is a nice hike to some falls.

We did drive on the forest road 29 up a good ways in a 2 wd truck, it goes to the left and turns gravel and in some area a bit narrow with "growth" close to the path. there are some mud holes but for the most part a good road.. we did about 5 miles and turned around as the going in SLOW.. and you are going uphill most of the way.

ATT service NNNNOOOO... nota, zilch, bunpkins, zip..

T-mobile was very good.. getting 1.3 hotspotting off my phone samsung galx 8. so able to stream TV, netflix, amazon prime video etc. with no problem.

Good free camping spot on the peninsula, close to the discovery trail and crescent lake.

There were just a couple of other tent/car campers here when we were Since it was mid week and raining, so it was quiet and secluded. Access was super easy with good paved roads And easy corners and grades the whole way to the field. Leveling our trailer was easy.

It makes a good base for exploring. I wouldn’t camp here just to camp, the trees are pretty, but there are no views beyond this small clearing.

Cell service was strong on Verizon so we could work, including video calls, and stream movies at night. There’s a pay dump station at the boat ramp on the west side of Cresent lake If you need it.

Our main negative other than the Pnw weather was the dog poop everywhere. We tried to clean up our site area as best we could but still managed to track it into the car which was a hassle to clean up.

Please be responsible and clean up after your canines :)

We arrived July 1, 2020. No one here. Secluded but muddy and tore up by 4 wheelers. July 2nd the locals started showing up with high performance Razors. Drunk, loud and obnoxious until all hours of the night. By Saturday July 4th there was not enough room to even park. I counted 12 Razors and almost got run over by 1 during the day. They went out on daytime and nighttime runs honking the horns on the way out and back in. This is a once a month event for some of them. We are never going back there. Don't bring the kids because they'll learn new swear words and possibly get run over.

I will preface this review by saying it was July 4th and every other campground on the peninsula was absolutely packed. My partner and I got to the site around 8 PM and there were two groups there— one group of about 2 cars and an RV and a second group of about ten vehicles total, a mix of RVs and cars. We waved to the people we saw and drove to an empty-ish area to set up our tent. One thing to note was it was VERY buggy. I probably wouldn’t want to hang out at this site for long at this time of year anyway; we were absolutely mobbed by mosquitoes as soon as we got out of our car. But overall it was totally fine. Nice, quiet site, absolutely beautiful location. The larger group was looking at us a lot when we got out of our car so I waved again. This is where it gets a bit unfriendly. Eventually two women (grown women, not teenagers) from the group came over and asked us if we found out about the spot online. I said yes and she said that she was a local and she didn’t know the place was online. I said yeah and tried to look agreeable. She looked at me for awhile and then she said she didn’t mind if we stayed but just know her group was very loud, stayed up very late, and they didn’t plan on keeping it down. I think her friend was a bit embarrassed for her because she said, “There’s room for all of us!” and we said, okay, because what could we possibly say to that, and they turned and left. My partner and I started setting up our tent and everything was fine for about three minutes. Their group then went from talking loudly to shouting at what sounded like the top of their lungs. Like, not saying anything, just yelling to yell. We put our tent back in the car and left. Fortunately if you keep going along the road away from how you come in (so away from 101) there are lots of little places to park along the logging road. We parked far enough away from this unfriendly crew and put our tent along the side of the road and had a really peaceful night in the woods. I don’t think I would come back because honestly I didn’t feel fully safe all night. But it was a beautiful place to sleep.