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Chelan Ranger District Stage 1 Fire Restriction Building, Maintaining Chelan Ranger District Stage 1 Fire Restriction Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire fire, or stove fire, including briquette fires are allowed in the following: Designated Campgrounds: • Cascade Creek • Corral Creek • Domke Falls • Domke Lake • Graham Harbor • Graham Harbor Creek • Grouse Mountain • Grouse Mountain Spirngs • Handy Springs • Junior Point • Lucerne • Moore Point • Poison Springs • Prince Creek • Refrigerator Harbor • Safety Harbor Creek • Snowberry • South Navarre • Windy Camp Organizational Camps, Recreation Residences, and Resorts under Special Use Permits. Lake Chelan-Sawtooth or Glacier Peak Wilderness Areas Cle Elum Ranger District Stage 1 Fire Restriction Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire fire, or stove fire, including briquette fires are allowed in the following: Designated Campgrounds: • Beverly • Cayuse • Cle Elum River • De Roux Creek Trailhead • East Kachess Group Site • Fish Lake • Icewater • Kachess • Manastash • Mineral Springs • Owhi • Red Mountain • Rider’s Camp • Salmon La Sac • Swauk • Taneum • Taneum Guard Station Cabin • Teanaway Guard Station Cabin • Ken Wilcox (Haney Meadow) • Wish Poosh Other Special Areas: Recreation Residences under permit from US Forest Service Camp Wahoo Outfitter Camp Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area, except areas specified below: Campfires are NOT permitted in the following areas: Above 5000 feet elevation on the Wenatchee National Forest. Within ½ mile of the following locations: Deep Lake Glacier Lake Lake Ivanhoe Rachel Lake Rebecca Lake Shovel Lake Spectacle Lake Upper Park Lake Entiat Ranger District Stage 1 Fire Restriction Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire fire, or stove fire, including briquette fires are allowed in the following: Designated Campgrounds: • Big Hill • Blue Creek Guard Station • Cottonwood • Fern Lake • Three Creeks • Fox Creek • Lake Creek • Mad Lake • Silver Falls • Snowshoe Springs • Spruce Grove • Two Little Lakes Recreation Residences under Special Use Permits Glacier Peak Wilderness Area Methow Valley Ranger District Stage 1 Fire Restriction Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire fire, or stove fire, including briquette fires are allowed in the following: Designated Campgrounds: • Early Winters • Lone Fir • Ballard • Meadows • Buck Lake • Nice • Honey Moon • Hart’s Pass • Poplar Flat • Road’s End • Twisp River Horse Camp • Foggy Dew • Klipchuck • Camp 4 • River Bend • War Creek • Ruffed Grouse • Chewuch • Loup Loup • Mystery • South Creek • Black Pine Lake • Falls Creek • Flat • Crater Creek Recreation Residences under Special Use Permits Pasayten and Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness Areas Naches Ranger District Stage 1 Fire Restriction Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire fire, or stove fire, including briquette fires are allowed in the following: Designated Campgrounds: • Clear Lake Boat Launch • Clear Lake Day Use • Clear Lake Group Site • Clear Lake North • Clear Lake South • Dog Lake • Hause Creek • Indian Creek • Leech Lake • White Pass Horse Camp • South Fork Group Site • Willows • Windy Point • Cottonwood • Boulder Cave • Cedar Springs • Sawmill Flatt • Soda Springs • Little Naches • Cougar Flat • Kaner Flat • Kaner Flat Group Site • Bumping Lake • Crow Creek • Indian Flat Group Site • Lodgepole • Salmon Cove Group Site • Pine Needle Group Site • Pleasant Valley • American River Guard Station • Bumping Lake Boat Launch • Hells Crossing • American Forks • Halfway Flat Organizational Camps, Recreation Residences, and Resorts under Special Use Permits. Goat Rocks Wilderness Area -- except Shoe Lake Basin, Snow Grass Flats Norse Peak Wilderness Area William O. Douglas Wilderness Area Wenatchee River Ranger District Stage 1 Fire Restriction Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire fire, or stove fire, including briquette fires are allowed in the following: Designated Campgrounds: • Alpine Meadows • Atkinson Flats • Blackpine Horse Camp • Bridge Creek • Bridge Creek Group Site • Chiwawa Horse • Chatter Creek • Chatter Creek Group Site • Eightmile • Eightmile Group Site • Finner Creek • Glacier View • Nineteen Mile • Grasshopper Meadows • Grouse Creek • Grouse Creek Group Site • Johnny Creek Lower and Upper Loops • Icicle Group Site • Ida Creek • Lake Creek • Meadow Creek • Napeequa Crossing • Nason Creek • White River Falls • Phelps Creek • Riverbend • Rock Creek • Rock Island • Schaefer Creek • Goose Creek Recreation Residences and Resorts, and Camps under Special Use Permits Forest Service Lake Wenatchee administrative site Alpine Lakes, Glacier Peak, Henry M. Jackson Wilderness Areas except areas specified below. These restrictions are always in effect. Alpine Lakes Wilderness Campfires are NOT permitted in the following areas: Above 5000 feet elevation on the Wenatchee National Forest. Within ½ mile of the following locations: Eightmile Lake Hope Lake Josephine Lake Junction of French Creek and Icicle Creek Trails Leland Lake Little Eightmile Lake Mig Lake Nada Lake Swimming Deer Lake Square Lake Trout Lake Wolverine Lake Upper and Lower Grace Lakes Lake Donald Loch Eileen Lake Ethel Lake Julius Lake Susan Jane Deep Lake Glacier Lake Lake Ivanhoe Rachel Lake Rebecca Lake Shovel Lake Spectacle Lake Upper Park Lake Henry M. Jackson Wilderness Campfires are NOT permitted in the following areas: Within ¼ mile of the following locations: Lake Sally Ann Lake Valhalla Lake Minotaur Glasses Lake Lake Theseus Heather Lake .
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