Blue Jay Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 11 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $20From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Cal Trans continues to perform highway-widening work on SR-74 Ortega Highway with periodic nightly closures . Located approximately 4 miles off Hwy 74 (Ortega) on the North Main Divide Road, this campsite has 50 available sites with a varying distance apart for a true "wilderness" feel. Amenities include trash cans, fire pits, grills, vaulted toilets, and plenty of local trails for hiking, biking and equestrian. For information regarding local and connecting trails, please see our Trail Guide under the Trabuco District.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…include trash cans, fire pits, grills, vaulted toilets, and plenty of local trails for hiking, biking and…”
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $20 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
“$20/Night for single unit and $5/Night for extra vehicle” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($20), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 6
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
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Fry Creek CampgroundCleveland National Forest · 39 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lakeland Village, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 30°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Blue Jay Campground is in California’s 40th congressional district. Its representative, Young Kim (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →