Silver Springs Campground is a favorite for camping near Mt. Rainier. The campground is just beautiful, well-treed with several spring fed creeks running through the park. The sites are almost all back-in and fairly level. Adequate separation between sites and lovely walking trails in the park.
The camp hosts were very personable and helpful. They kept the park very clean and raked each site between guests. There are flush toilets in some loops, pit toilets in others – I did not see any showers. There are no hookups, except for #26 which used to be a host site and has full hookups. Even though the park was full over the 4th of July, there were no loud, rowdy groups. Our Verizon was pretty much worthless, but we were able to boost it to 2 bars of 3G.
There are at least two trails out of campground, one is a short walk to an old veteran’s gravesite. We enjoyed it, but be sure to catch the “River Trail” (trailhead is signed) out of the campground – it doesn’t show on the campground map, but you can walk for miles on a nice trail along the White River. There are also plenty of other hiking and mountain biking opportunities nearby and it’s just a short drive to the Mt. Rainer Sunrise Visitor Center.
Highly recommend this park if you love camping in a wooded setting with mossy creeks and a glacier fed river nearby!

A few small springs fed a creek that backed up to our site. Doug-firs were abundant and take the trail near site 13 to find an old gravesite of an early pioneer and some massive logs crossing a small waterfall area.

My fav of all the NFS and National Park campgrounds in the area, though not the old growth you'll get elsewhere, still grand in every way.

Just watch out for the whisky jacks, they'll snatch good right out of your mouth!