U.S. Forest Service · Inyo National Forest · CA

Agnew Horse Camp

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 30 mi
Wildfire
Dome fire · 30 mi away · 6,788 acres · 95% contained · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Wildfire Training fire · 43 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 15, 2026
ReservableOut of season; the next season isn't published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Sites
144 on recreation.gov
100 ftLongest rig
8,310 ftElevation
582 ftWater · an unnamed stream
2.3 miNW of Mammoth Lakes, CA
29%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices

In the agency’s own words

Agnew Horse Camp is located in Reds Meadow Valley, just west of the full-service community of Mammoth Lakes, California. This equestrian camp provides access to some of the most spectacular wilderness in the Sierras and many outdoor activities such as horseback riding, fishing, hiking and photography. Devils Postpile National Monument and the famous Ansel Adams Wilderness are nearby, and a pack station with several amenities is just down the road. Keep reading

Recreation

The campground is a great base camp for hiking the area's many trails. Within a few miles, campers will find the High Trail, Shadow Creek Trail and River Trail, all for hiking and horseback riding. Trailheads to the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Pacific Crest Trail are also in the vicinity. Some of the terrain can be challenging for horses, especially due to the high elevation. Fishing enthusiasts can try for trout in the many area lakes or the North Fork of the San Joaquin River.

Facilities

The horse camp is adjacent to the main Agnew Meadows Campground and group camp. Four equestrian-friendly campsites are available with one horse corral per site. The road to the facility is narrow, single-laned, max trailer length of 25 feet recommended and only open in summer.

Natural Features

The campground sits in a lodgepole pine forest surrounded by high peaks, adjacent to creeks and a small lake, at an elevation of 8,400 feet. Spring and early summer wildflower displays bring even more color to the landscape. Many species of wildlife call the mountains home, such as black bear, mountain lions, mule deer, pine marten, pika and many species of fish and birds.

Nearby Attractions

The area is close to Devils Postpile National Monument and the Ansel Adams Wilderness. Both areas provide great day trips, offering horseback riding and hiking trails, as well as unparalleled photographic opportunities. Reds Meadow Pack Station and Resort has a general store and cafe. The trailhead for Rainbow Falls also begins near Reds Meadow. Devils Postpile National Monument Ansel Adams Wilderness Charges & Cancellations Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.

What the agency tells you

Rule

A Forest Service access fee must be paid; call 760-924-5500 for questions

Rule

Reserved Sites will be held until checkout time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of the second day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Please call the office at 760-934-5795 if you need to inform the campground of an arrival time greater than 24 hours after your arrival date, or if you will not use your reservation whatsoever.

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Hiking within the Inyo Wilderness requires a special permit for overnight stays. These permits are managed through a limited allocation system. Please CLICK HERE if you are interested in more information on these permits.

Everything else this campground posts · 11
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Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in food storage lockers and remove all food from area after eating; always keep a clean camp and do not feed any wild animals

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Mosquitoes can be abundant in early to mid summer; campers should come prepared

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This is a high elevation facility; please use caution when traveling from lower elevations

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Campground usually not clear of snow until late May or early June

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One RV per single site, most sites can accommodate 2 extra vehicles at an additional fee per vehicle.

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Only 2 pets per site is allowed.

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Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.

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Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. For current fire conditions or weather closures contact the Mammoth Lakes Visitor Center, (760) 924-5500, or the Mono Lakes Visitor Center, (760) 647-3044.

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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.

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Click here to learn more about the Inyo National Forest

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Please Note: One RV with tow per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. In accordance with standard industry practices, Inyo Recreation will assess an additional $10.00 extra vehicle fee per day for the second vehicle in each single family campsite, and on the third and fourth vehicle in any double family campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site. In the case of motorcycles, the first two are considered one vehicle, and the third and fourth motorcycle are also considered one vehicle. No additional vehicle fees are collected for bicycles.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
14 · 4 equestrian
Hookups
None
Longest rig
100 ft
Accessible sites
2
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Store
Nearby
Stay limit
14 nights
recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
Fishing
Hiking
Horseback riding
Picnicking
Night sky · 396th darkest of 1,201 in CA
Bortle 3
Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 7.5 km away
Peak color
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (7.5 km) · Oct 4, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 4 of the 14 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. The last reservable season the agency published ended September 21, 2024, and it hasn't published the next one.recreation.gov
Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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Every line of the receipt · 10

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$10

“In accordance with standard industry practices, Inyo Recreation will assess an additional $10.00 extra vehicle fee per day for the second vehicle in each single family campsite, and on the third and fourth vehicle in…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice

What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms

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

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

14 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 4 mapped sites
—between you and the next site, typically

4 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.

All 14 sites

14 of 14 sites located
Equestrian4Type not stated10
Aerial · Esri World Imagery
Sleeps

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 14 of the 14 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

AGNE001type not stated30 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE002type not stated25 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE003type not stated30 ftyes1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE004type not stated30 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE005type not stated100 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE006type not stated35 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE007type not stated40 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE008type not stated30 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE009type not stated40 ftyes1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE012type not stated50 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE013equestrian nonelectric60 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE014equestrian nonelectric55 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE015equestrian nonelectric30 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft
AGNE016equestrian nonelectric48 ft1,182 ftAgnew Meadows1,604 ft

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Coordinate37.68309, -119.08952
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Getting there

From U.S. Highway 395, take Highway 203 west through the town of Mammoth Lakes. Pass Mammoth Mountain Ski Area to Minaret Vista. Continue on Red's Meadow Road to the Agnew Meadows turnoff, about 2.5 miles.

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today59°Sunny
Tonight35°Clear
Sunday58°Sunny
Sunday Night32°Clear

NWS forecast for Mammoth Lakes, CA

Typical weather

Typical October night 20°F, day 61°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 8°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°0°

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.

Measured at: BODIE CALIFORNIA ST HISTORIC P, CA (USC00040943), 37 miles away and 60 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
San Joaquin19,662 acres · 2 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Sherwin3,140 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Tom McClintock, official portrait

Agnew Horse Camp is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (7.5 km) · Oct 4, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.