Satus Pass, WA Camping and Hiking

[tele turnin]

Title says it all, I'm interested in knowing of a good camping area around Satus Pass, WA (or just Goldendale)to go camping and hiking. Quick background, I was recently asked to be a Scoutmaster and have been living in Yakima for just over a year. I haven't done a ton of hiking in the area but am looking for something that may have minimal snow this time of year and where we could go for a 5 mile hike. Being around trees is a definite plus and Satus Pass looks like the closest area that will fit the bill. So like the title says I'm looking for a decent place to camp where we could also go for around a 5 mile hike. Thanks all.

[BirdDog]

Not much public land around Satus Pass area. Everything to the north is Yakima Reservation, a lot of private property to the south. You'd be better off looking up Hwy 12/410 area, or Yakima Canyon/Manastash.

[Water]

from goldendale its not so far to go down and across the river--you can hike and camp along the deschutes river i believe. query portlandhikers.org or nwhikers for more info probably.

[tele turnin]

thanks for the info. i'll look into the above mentioned areas. we are really just looking for a spot to camp (with a campfire) and where we can easily go on a 5 mile hike that will require them to use a map/compass. a bonus would be that it is 1.5 hours give or take from yakima. they've been doing a lot of sleeping in snow caves lately so the idea is to get them out of the snow for this one.