Alpine View Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $30–$60Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 5553 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 18 – September 15Open May 18 through September 15
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Alpine View Campground is located in the Trinity Unit of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area at an elevation of 2,400 feet. This facility is a great choice for children, the elderly and those with accessibility needs who require well-developed trails and campsites. Visitors enjoy a variety of recreational activities in a beautiful setting. Keep reading
Recreation
The area offers excellent opportunities for fishing, boating and hiking around Trinity Lake. The campground is very popular with the boating public, as the Bowerman boat ramp is located a quarter-mile before the campground entrance. Anglers can fish for catfish, as well as different varieties of trout, salmon and bass. Hikers can access several trails in the area, including the 0.3-mile Lake Trail.
Facilities
This is a 53-unit family campground that offers several accessible campsites and three accessible restrooms with flush toilets. The campground features paved social areas, roads and spurs. The maximum vehicle length is 32 feet. Each campsite is furnished with a picnic table and campfire ring. Some of the campsites have bear-proof food storage lockers. Drinking water is provided.
Natural Features
This scenic campground has three loops (A, B and C) with sites that wind through a grove of Douglas fir and cedar with an understory of ferns. Some sites in Loops A and B have a view of Trinity Lake. Bears frequent the area, but a wide variety of wildlife may be seen in and around Trinity Lake.
What the agency tells you
Be bear aware: store all food and scented products in provided bear-proof lockers
$12 fee charged at Bowerman boat ramp
Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
No hookups available
Learn more about Shasta-Trinity National Forest
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Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out time 2 P.M.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 55
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 32 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 55
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…campsites and three accessible restrooms with flush toilets. The campground features paved social areas, roads…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…have bear-proof food storage lockers. Drinking water is provided. Natural Features This scenic…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Water sports
- Night sky · 262nd darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 53 of the 55 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.
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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.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 27
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 rates for this season, $30–$60 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
55 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 53 mapped sitesAll 55 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 55 of the 55 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ALPINE VIEW CAMPGROUND | 16 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 72 ft | 270 ft | $30–$60 |
| ALPINE VIEW CAMPGROUND | 17 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 72 ft | 229 ft | $30–$60 |
| ALPINE VIEW CAMPGROUND | 18 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 67 ft | 215 ft | $30–$60 |
| ALPINE VIEW CAMPGROUND | 19 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 67 ft | 160 ft | $30–$60 |
| ALPINE VIEW CAMPGROUND | 20 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 69 ft | 187 ft | $30–$60 |
| ALPINE VIEW CAMPGROUND | 21 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 74 ft | 135 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 01 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 56 ft | 480 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 02 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 49 ft | 445 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 03 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 61 ft | 448 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 04 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 49 ft | 485 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 05 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 79 ft | 500 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 06 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 67 ft | 457 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 07 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 71 ft | 424 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 08 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 59 ft | 391 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 09 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 59 ft | 340 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 10 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 71 ft | 364 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 11 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 70 ft | 300 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 12 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 70 ft | 324 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 13 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 55 ft | 392 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 14 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 69 ft | 349 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop A | 15 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 90 ft | 390 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 22 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 56 ft | 118 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 23 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 56 ft | 122 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 24 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 89 ft | 226 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 25 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 84 ft | 270 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 26 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 88 ft | 335 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 27 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 57 ft | 349 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 28 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 57 ft | 388 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 29 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 90 ft | 387 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 30 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 71 ft | 448 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 31 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 45 ft | 475 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 32 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 45 ft | 479 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 33M | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 84 ft | 368 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 34 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 78 ft | 387 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 35 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 78 ft | 309 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 36 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 71 ft | 279 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 37 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 71 ft | 212 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 38 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 76 ft | 270 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 39 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 80 ft | 191 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 40 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 79 ft | 237 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 41 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 81 ft | 158 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 42 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 71 ft | 152 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop B | 43 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 71 ft | 223 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop C | 44 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 151 ft | 477 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop C | 45 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 113 ft | 390 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop C | 46 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 113 ft | 353 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop C | 47 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 123 ft | 162 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop C | 48 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 123 ft | 206 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop C | 49 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 95 ft | 278 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop C | 50 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 95 ft | 225 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop C | 51 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 78 ft | 292 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop C | 52 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 81 ft | 326 ft | $30–$60 |
| Loop C | 53 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 78 ft | 323 ft | $30–$60 |
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 32 ft | yes | $23–$46 | ||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 32 ft | yes | $23–$46 |
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 55 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hayward FlatWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.9 miCaptains Point Boat-In CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.7 miClark Springs CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.2 miRidgeville Boat-In CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.3 miMariners Roost Boat-In CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.3 mi
Minersville CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.4 miFrom Weaverville: take Highway 3 north for 22.5 miles. Turn right on Guy Covington Drive for 2.4 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Trinity Center, CA
Typical weather
Typical May night 44°F, day 77°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 44°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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 View 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 →