Alpine Meadow Campground
1Heads up1 fire 47 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located close to Lake Tahoe, Truckee, and Reno, Martis has a beautiful, peaceful campground off the beaten path. Martis Creek area features hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, and catch and release trout fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, kayaking, canoeing, walking, bicycling, picnicing. And of course camping.
Facilities
Vault toilets, potable water available at campground entrance, ampitheater.
Natural Features
Mountains, alpine valley, pine trees, lake, wild animals.
Nearby Attractions
Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Northstar, Reno, Virginia City Charges & Cancellations As per Recreation.gov policy.
What the agency tells you
** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CORRECT CHECK IN TIME IS 2:00 P.M. ** Visitors are required to know and observe all park rules. Please see Campground kiosk. Campgound closes October 15. The last day to make a reservation will be October 14. To make a reservation by phone please call: (877) 444-6777 The speed limit in the campground is 10 MPH. One way counterclockwise. Check out time is 12:00 Noon. Check In time is 2:00 P.M. Maximum of eight people per campsite including children. Two vehicles maximum per site. (One RV and one other vehicle). Pets must be on a six foot or shorter leash at all times. Site boundaries are indicated by the pea gravel. Campers must camp within the boundaries of their site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 24 of 24 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 24 of 24 campsite records
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Amphitheater
- Biking
- Birding
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Picnicking
- Ranger Station
- Wildlife viewing
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Army Corps says
- Yes
- Fall color · reported 11 days ago, 20 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
“As per Recreation.gov policy.” · 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 24 sites
| 1 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,990 ft |
| 10 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 1,744 ft |
| 11 | standard nonelectric | 112 ft | 1,819 ft |
| 12 | standard nonelectric | 153 ft | 1,903 ft |
| 13 | standard nonelectric | 112 ft | 1,929 ft |
| 14 | standard nonelectric | 258 ft | 2,186 ft |
| 15 | standard nonelectric | 159 ft | 2,445 ft |
| 16 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 2,408 ft |
| 17 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 2,333 ft |
| 18 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 2,328 ft |
| 19 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 2,219 ft |
| 2 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 1,928 ft |
| 20 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 2,148 ft |
| 21 | standard nonelectric | 130 ft | 2,240 ft |
| 22 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 2,162 ft |
| 23 | standard nonelectric | 125 ft | 2,273 ft |
| 24 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 2,168 ft |
| 3 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,948 ft |
| 4 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 1,838 ft |
| 5 | standard nonelectric | 112 ft | 1,755 ft |
| 6 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 1,829 ft |
| 7 | standard nonelectric | 89 ft | 1,686 ft |
| 8 | standard nonelectric | 89 ft | 1,774 ft |
| 9 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 1,683 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Prosser Ranch GroupTahoe National Forest · 4.3 mi
Prosser FamilyTahoe National Forest · 4.5 mi
Granite Flat (California)Tahoe National Forest · 4.6 mi
Lakeside (Truckee)Tahoe National Forest · 5.1 mi
Boca CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 5.2 miLakeside CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 5.2 miFrom State Highway 267, turn onto Martis Dam Road. Continue on Martis Dam Road for approximately 1.2 miles. Tur miles. Turn right a 0.2 miles to the campground entrance. You have now arrived at the entrance to Alpine Meadows Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Truckee, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 15°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
Alpine Meadow Campground is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“the agency's own site records list "CELL PHONE SERVICE" on 24 of 24 campsites here”