Aspen Grove Campground (CA)
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $28From, per site
- Sites
- 2827 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 15 – September 30Open May 15 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Aspen Grove Campground is located in the Eagle Lake Recreation Area of the Lassen National Forest. This recreation area has five campgrounds, 3 day use areas and a marina on the south shore of Eagle Lake. These facilities are connected by a 5.2 mile paved hiking/bike trail. The Osprey Overlook, another day use area can be hiked or driven too for a scenic view of the southern end of Eagle Lake and the surrounding forest basin. The Lassen National Forest offers a variety of lakes, streams and wilderness areas for recreational opportunities. The forest offers miles of trails that are used for hiking, mountain biking, off-highway vehicle riding and during the winter months, snowmobiling. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing for the Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout, a California Heritage Trout, is the primary recreational activity on Eagle Lake, but the 3rd largest natural lake in California (22,000 acres), provides for plenty of room for swimming, kayaking, skiing and all other boating activities by motor or sail. There are no 2-cycle restrictions for outboard boat motors or PWCs. Aspen Campground is adjacent to the designated, roped-off swim area at the Gallatin Beach Day Use Area.
Facilities
Aspen Grove Campground is a tent-only designated campground. Camping vehicles of any type and generators are not allowed in the campground. Wheelbarrows are provided in order to assist you in moving your tents and other camping gear to and from your campsite. Eighteen sites, numbers 11-28 can be reserved and sites 1-10 are designated walk-in, first-come, first-served sites. Each site is equipped with a table and a campfire ring with grill. The campground has flush toilets, potable water points, and firewood is available for purchase. The paved bike path runs through the campground. The Eagle Lake Marina store with gas, propane, fishing and camping supplies, shower and laundry facilities.
Natural Features
Eagle Lake is located where the Sierras meet the Cascades and the Modoc Plateau of the Great Basin. This unique location offers diverse landscapes, geology, wildlife and vegetation. Aspen Campground is located in a mature conifer forest of pines and firs, with a strip of aspen between the campsites and the lake's shoreline, at an elevation of 5,100 feet.
Nearby Attractions
The Lassen National Forest has many other recreational opportunities and the Lassen Volcanic National Park is an easy day’s roundtrip drive from Eagle Lake Recreational Area. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 825-3454.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground.
Two pets per site and leashed at all times.
Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
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.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
Click here for more information on the Lassen National Forest.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 28 · 27 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…ring with grill. The campground has flush toilets, potable water points, and firewood is available…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…grill. The campground has flush toilets, potable water points, and firewood is available for purchase. The…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 241st darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 36 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 27 of the 28 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.
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
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $28 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
28 sites
All 28 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. 27 of the 28 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 001 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 002 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 003 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 004 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 005 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 006 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 007 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 008 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 009 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 010 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 011 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 50 ft | $28 |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 013-Administrative Site | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 014 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 015 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 016 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 017 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 018 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 019 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 020 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 021 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 022 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 023 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 024 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 025 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 026 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 027 | tent only nonelectric | $28 | |
| ASPEN GROVE CAMPGROUND | 028 | type not stated |
25 of 28 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
West Eagle CampgroundLassen National Forest · 0.6 mi
Eagle CampgroundLassen National Forest · 0.7 mi
Merrill CampgroundLassen National Forest · 2.0 mi
Christie CampgroundLassen National Forest · 3.5 miGoumazLassen National Forest · 11 miRoxie Peconom CampgroundLassen National Forest · 14 miFrom Susanville, California, take Highway 36 west for 2 miles to County Road A-1. Turn north and continue 14 miles to the Eagle Lake Recreation Area. Turn right on Gallatin Road, the first highway you will come to in the lake basin, and follow the signs towards the marina and Aspen Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Spaulding, CA
Typical weather
Typical May night 40°F, day 69°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 40°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Aspen Grove Campground (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.