U.S. Forest Service · Giant Sequoia National Monument · CA

Aspen Hollow Group (Sequoia National Forest, CA)

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 9 mi
Wildfire
Land fire · 8.5 mi away · 20 acres · updated Oct 11, 2026
Wildfire
Wildfire Training fire · 24 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 15, 2026
ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 21 opens May 21.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
Sites
1All of them booked ahead
35 ftLongest rig
5,380 ftElevation
1,161 ftWater · Tenmile Creek
10.7 miNE of Squaw Valley, CA
46%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices

In the agency’s own words

Aspen Hollow Group sits at an elevation of 5,300 feet within the Giant Sequoia National Monument, adjacent to Kings Canyon National Park. The campground sits just one mile from Hume Lake, an 87-acre man-made lake in the Kings River Watershed. Keep reading

Recreation

In addition to hiking the sequoia groves, visitors enjoy swimming, trout fishing and boating at nearby Lake Hume. The trails in the Monument are open to hikers, horses and bikes, however bikes are not permitted in wilderness areas.

Facilities

The campground accommodates up to 100 people and has back-in spaces for 35 vehicles. Vault toilets, drinking water, fire rings, picnic tables and food storage lockers are provided. This facility is operated by Rocky Mountain Recreation Company, a division of ExplorUS and comments are welcome; comment forms are available from campground hosts or online.

Natural Features

The Sequoia National Forest, located at the southern end of the Sierra Nevada in central California, takes its name from the giant sequoia, the world's largest tree, which grows in more than 30 groves on the Forest's lower slopes. The Forest comprises about 1.1 million acres, and elevations range from about 1,000 to 12,000 feet, creating precipitous canyons and mountain streams with spectacular waterfalls such as Salmon Creek Falls near Fairview and Grizzly Falls on the Kings River. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.

What the agency tells you

Rule

Electric hookups are not available

Rule

This is bear country; campers must take precautions and follow food storage guidelines

Rule

Click here for more info about the Sequoia National Forest

Everything else this campground posts · 2
Rule

Camping fee does not include Park Entrance Fee

Rule

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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
1 · 1 group
Hookups
None
Longest rig
35 ft
Paved pads
All
Accessible sites
1
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…and has back-in spaces for 35 vehicles. Vault toilets, drinking water, fire rings, picnic tables and food…”
Drinking water
Yes
DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 1 of 1 campsite records
Bear boxes
Yes
Stay limit
14 nights
recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Waterfall, Lake, River, Creek
Boating
Fishing
Swimming
Night sky · 713th darkest of 1,201 in CA
Bortle 3
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 21, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 21, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itRocky Mountain Recreation CompanyA private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Service (parent: ExplorUS)the operator link
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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Fri, May 21 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 12

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.
Group area, a night$482
These are next season’s rates, May 21, 2027 to Sep 25, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.
Hume Lake is one mile away, as is Hume Lake Trail.
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 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

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 · 4

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

1 sites · the site map

All 1 sites

1 of 1 sites located
Group1
Aerial · Esri World Imagery
SleepsTakes a
AREA ASPEN HOLLOW001group standard nonelectric35 ftyes1,488 ft

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Coordinate36.78122, -118.90380
The phone559-335-2232
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Getting there

From Fresno, California, take Highway 180 east to Grants Grove. Drive approximately 12 miles, then take a right onto Hume Road and continue 4 more miles, passing Christian Camps. Take a right at the Aspen Hollow sign. Go 3/4 mile reaching the entrance of the campground.

The weather

the next four days

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight52°Clear
Saturday70°Sunny
Saturday Night51°Mostly Clear
Sunday68°Sunny

NWS forecast for Wilsonia, CA

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

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Roadless
Agnew9,561 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Kings River52,999 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Monarch697 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area

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

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 9, 2026

Who answers for this land

Tom McClintock, official portrait

Aspen Hollow Group (Sequoia National Forest, CA) 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’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice: the number below is the only way to be sure.
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.
Nearest place of any size: Wilsonia, CA, 4 mi NE (a census designated place). Straight line.