Antlers (Shasta Lake, CA)
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:04 UTC
- A night
- $30–$60When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 60In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Antlers Campground is situated on a bluff above the Sacramento arm of Shasta Lake. The campground has beautiful views of the lake. There is no access to the water from this campground. The Public Boat Launch is right next to the campground for great outdoor activitites. The grounds are heavily forested with pine trees, oak and Manzanita that provide shade and some privacy. Easy access from I-5 makes Antlers is a very popular campground. Keep reading
Recreation
Shasta is perfect for everyone whether you are a boater, angler or camper. There is something for everyone. Enjoy multiple marinas and natural wonders making it the perfect destination for adventure. Different Species of fish in Shasta Lake include rainbow trout, brown trout, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass, Chinook salmon, bluegill, black crappie, Sacramento sucker, white sturgeon, squawfish, white catfish, Threadfin shad, brown bullhead, golden shiner, green sunfish, riffle sculpin. Trout fishing – best during spring fishing on the McCloud Arm north of Hirz Bay, The Sacremento arm, Big Backbone Creek, and Little Squaw Creek, during summer trout move to deeper lake levels – successful baits are live minnows, and marshmallow /egg combinations. Successful lures used for trolling are Kastmasters, Rebels, Thinfins, Z-rays, Z-r or X-5 Flatfish, and Rapalas. Bass Fishing – Good year round but best during spring and early summer, fishing in shallower waters is best. Successful baits are mostly live baits, rubber worms, and spinner baits.
Facilities
Each site has a picnic table (two in double sites), lockers for storing food, fire rings, grills, and tent pads. Sites at this campground can accommodate both tents and RVs, however there are no electric/water hookups or dump stations. There are both flush and vault toilets at this campground but no showers are available. Drinking water is provided. Interpretive programs are hosted at the nearby amphitheater every weekend between Memorial Day and Labor Day. For more information, please call 530-275-8113.
Natural Features
The Shasta-Trinity is the largest national forest in California with a diverse landscape, encompassing five wilderness areas, hundreds of mountain lakes and 6,278 miles of streams and rivers. Lake Shasta sits at an elevation of 1,067 feet and has 365 miles of shoreline punctuated by steep mountains blanketed in Manzanita and evergreens. Snow-capped Mount Shasta, the second-tallest mountain in the Cascade Range, looms in the distance.
Nearby Attractions
Tours are available at the nearby Lake Shasta Caverns. Antlers is located in the town of Lakehead, which offers restaurants and shopping.
Charges & Cancellations
If the reservation was made through recreation.gov please call 1-877-444-6777 to make a refund request. Refunds must be requested no later than 14 days before your scheduled arrival date for a full refund (excluding recreation.gov fee’s). Refunds for Check or Cash Purchases: Refunds for cash payments will be issued a check refund. A refund will be processed within 30 days of receipt and approval. For cash or check refunds please call us at 530-275-8113. Please Note! Refund requests made during or after departure can only be processed when approved by the facility management staff based upon local policy. Refunds for Emergency Closures: In the event of an emergency closure the Recreation.gov will attempt to notify users and offer alternate dates and sites (as appropriate). If this is not possible, reservations will be canceled and all fees paid will be refunded. Refunds for Naturally Occurring Events: Refunds will not be issued for naturally occurring events like rain, snow, wind, smoke, extreme temperature, low lake level, etc. If you are requesting a refund for a walk-up site, please contact the host on-site or call us 530-275-8113. All refunds must be approved and issued through our office or processed though Recreation.gov.
What the agency tells you
If applicable, the holder of the Golden Pass must be present; Must bring voucher to the campground
Be aware of the poison oak that grows in this campground
Please remember there is an additional fee for use at the adjoining boat ramp area; The fee is $17 per day for parking and launching
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Caution: Bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in approved containers
Click here for more information on this campground.
Click here to 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.
Extra Vehicle Fee $12 per night
Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out time 2 P.M.
Campground does not have lake access, it is situated on a bluff with great views of the lake.
Campground is located right off I-5 and trains are frequent in the area.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 60
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…dump stations. There are both flush and vault toilets at this campground but no showers are available.…”
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There are both flush and vault toilets at this campground but no showers are available.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campground but no showers are available. Drinking water is provided. Interpretive programs are hosted at…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Water sports
- Night sky · 610th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:04 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicle Fee $12 per night” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
“If the reservation was made through recreation.gov please call 1-877-444-6777 to make a refund request. Refunds must be requested no later than 14 days before your scheduled arrival date for a full refund (excluding recreation.gov fee’s). Refunds for Check or Cash Purchases: Refunds for cash payments will be issued…” · 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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Antlers (Shasta Lake, CA) closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Antlers CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.1 mi
- Lakeshore EastWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.2 mi · 28 sites
- Hirz BayWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 6.7 mi · 50 sites
- Dekkas RockWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 7.4 mi · 1 site
recreation.gov availability, read 16:04 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
60 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 45 mapped sitesAll 60 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 45 of the 60 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 60 of the 60 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| AREA ANTLERS | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 003 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 126 ft | 365 ft | 1,730 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 239 ft | 1,683 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 107 ft | 73 ft | 1,652 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 006 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 76 ft | 170 ft | 1,634 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 007 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 86 ft | 89 ft | 1,541 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 162 ft | 1,497 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 009 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 105 ft | 116 ft | 1,390 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ft | 219 ft | 1,356 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 198 ft | 1,267 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 269 ft | 1,258 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 013 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 235 ft | 1,128 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 187 ft | 1,171 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 81 ft | 149 ft | 1,076 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 227 ft | 1,061 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 74 ft | 219 ft | 997 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 126 ft | 157 ft | 923 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 019 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 126 ft | 167 ft | 801 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 020 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 104 ft | 326 ft | 887 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 222 ft | 674 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 228 ft | 587 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 023 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 97 ft | 321 ft | 598 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 024 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 94 ft | 227 ft | 478 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 025 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 94 ft | 318 ft | 498 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 190 ft | 357 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 027 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 75 ft | 263 ft | 330 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 028 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 88 ft | 253 ft | 218 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 029 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 88 ft | 185 ft | 222 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 187 ft | 371 ft | 24 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 031 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 510 ft | 171 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 032 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 447 ft | 163 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 033 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 104 ft | 553 ft | 282 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 034 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 97 ft | 539 ft | 363 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 035 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 97 ft | 456 ft | 252 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 036 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 037 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 90 ft | 456 ft | 350 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 038 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 039 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 040 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 444 ft | 424 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 041 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 042 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 043 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 122 ft | 481 ft | 567 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 044 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 100 ft | 405 ft | 652 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 045 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 046 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 97 ft | 458 ft | 755 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 047 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 048 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 97 ft | 430 ft | 848 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 049 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 050 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 051 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 98 ft | 432 ft | 1,002 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 052 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 053 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 401 ft | 1,097 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 054 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 74 ft | 382 ft | 1,173 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 055 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 74 ft | 364 ft | 1,244 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 056 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 057 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 401 ft | 1,343 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA ANTLERS | 058 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA ANTLERS | 059 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 110 ft | 426 ft | 1,452 ft | $30–$60 |
| S&P | S&P Double | type not stated | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| S&P | S&P Single | type not stated | 40 ft | $30–$60 |
25 of 60 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Gregory Beach Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.4 mi
Gregory Creek Group CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.5 mi
Lakeshore EastWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.2 mi
Beehive Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.0 mi
Nelson PointWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.2 miAntlers Campground is located 25 miles north of Redding from I-5 (which crosses over Shasta Lake twice).
Exit I-5 at the Lakeshore Drive/Antlers Road exit in the town of Lakehead, CA. From the end of the ramp, go east at the stop sign. Turn right on Antlers Road and go about 1 mile to the campground entrance on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lakehead, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Antlers (Shasta Lake, CA) is in California’s 1st congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Doug LaMalfa for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.