Hawk Creek Campground, Lake Roosevelt, Washington

Setup was super-easy with our new trailer, in fact it was fun. Not much resemblance to our one camping outing last year when we couldn't get our new tent up before dark and were being eaten alive by voracious mosquitoes.

We just pulled in our spot, unlocked the trailer door and Cal started cooking - how about that! Dinner was fresh green beans, new potatoes and sausage. And carrot cake with coffee - doesn't get any better than that!

The campground itself is small, 20 sites, dry, somewhat shaded and pleasant. This early in the year there were no mosquitoes and only a couple yellowjackets.

A bonus of this campground that no one mentioned is that is has a waterfall, complete with fishing hole at the bottom! Don't expect drinking water - the pump didn't have a handle on it. But the campground was well-maintained and the vault toilets were not unpleasant to use. Large and clean with little or no odor. There is no electricity, so charge your batteries, even for your DVD player.

The creek was extremely low due to (someone told us) our low water table this year, but also they are using the water for the salmon run. But it was still beautiful and full of feeding Canadian geese. Of course someone had to let their dog run loose down by the geese and scare them - we even saw a family of geese with very small goslings. We saw a deer and a snake in the road down by the (high and dry) boat launch. Our neighbors caught several trout by going around the trail over the hill to a lake. Next time we'll take sandwiches and water and do that. That's it for now - highly recommend Hawk Creek, we even saw some hawks! Sleeping is good there - no ATV's allowed.