Ackerman Campground
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 51All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Ackerman Campground is a lakeside facility that's a favorite of fishermen. It is located in the beautiful Trinity Lake/Weaverville Area of Shasta-Trinity National Forest, which is part of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area. The campground is open year-round for walk-ins. Reservations are accepted May 21st through September 10th. Keep reading
Recreation
The area offers excellent opportunities for fishing, boating and wildlife viewing. Lewiston Lake is 610 acres and offers good fishing for kokanee salmon, as well as rainbow, brown and brook trout. There are two accessible boat ramps near this facility. Fairview boat ramp access to Trinity Lake is 3 miles north and Pine Cove boat ramp access to Lewiston Lake is 2 miles south. Motorized boats are limited up to 10 miles per hour. Lewiston Lake is a popular destination for kayakers. Hikers can enjoy the 2-mile North Lakeshore Trail.
Facilities
This campground can accommodate trailers and RVs up to 40 feet. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and a campfire ring with grill. The parking spurs are either grass or gravel.
Natural Features
The campground is situated at an elevation of 1,900 feet on the western shore of Lewiston Lake at the base of Trinity Dam. Some deciduous and conifer trees are found around the campground, but it is mostly unshaded. Cold, crystal-clear Lewiston Lake is roughly 5 miles long and a half-mile wide. It features a mountainous shoreline and a topography that ranges from marshlands to dense forest. Charges & Cancellations
What the agency tells you
Be bear aware: store all food and scented items out of reach of wildlife
Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.
Boat ramps and day use areas have a separate fee of $12/day/vehicle, payable on-site
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Learn more about Shasta-Trinity National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out time 2 P.M.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 51
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 448th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:22 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 26
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:22 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
52 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 49 mapped sitesAll 52 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 50 of the 52 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 417 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 368 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 313 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 290 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 244 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 104 ft | 264 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 110 ft | 309 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 108 ft | 327 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 246 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 176 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 171 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 199 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 178 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 173 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 163 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 16 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30 | ||
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 17 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 170 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 18 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 200 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 19 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 55 ft | 205 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 20 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 55 ft | 226 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 21 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 258 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 22 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 296 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 23 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 303 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 24 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 310 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 25 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 59 ft | 322 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 26 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 330 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 27 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 324 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 28 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 318 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 29 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 279 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 30 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 237 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 31 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 277 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 32 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 314 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 33 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 134 ft | 244 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 34 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 137 ft | 177 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 35 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 137 ft | 149 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 36 HOST | host pad | 40 ft | 140 ft | 181 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 37 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 138 ft | 165 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 38 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 183 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 39 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 183 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 40 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 150 ft | 192 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 41 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 183 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 42 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 199 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 43 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 210 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 44 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 59 ft | 257 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 45 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 59 ft | 309 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 46 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 54 ft | 378 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 47 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 54 ft | 336 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 48 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 59 ft | 308 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 49 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 106 ft | 286 ft | $30 |
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 50 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30 | ||
| ACKERMAN CAMPGROUND | 51 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 385 ft | $30 |
| S&P | S&P Single | type not stated | 40 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 52 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cooper Gulch CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.2 miMariners Roost Boat-In CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.7 mi
Mary Smith CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 4.2 miRidgeville Boat-In CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 4.5 mi
Minersville CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 5.0 miFrom Weaverville, take Highway 3 north for 7 miles. Turn right on Rush Creek Road for 9 miles. Turn left on Trinity Dam Boulevard for 7.5 miles.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lewiston, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 32°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Ackerman Campground is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →