Bobcat Meadow Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 32 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Bobcat Meadow Campground Trails 1.2 miles with trail connection options Campfires Campfires are not allowed when elevated fire restrictions are in effect. Please see our current fire restrictions page for more details. Fees Adventure Pass Required Hike/Ride Time Half day Difficulty Easy Best Seasons Year Round Location Off the I-8 at Buckman Springs Rd towards Four Corners Trailhead Ranger District Descanso Ranger District - (619) 445-6235 Bobcat Meadow Campground is located within the Corral Canyon OHV Area and provides a quiet camping opportunity convenient to several connecting trails. Keep reading
Campsites are nestled amidst Oak groves with views of chaparral and desert for miles with cooler temperatures and wide-spanning views as would be expected at its higher elevation. Trails can be accessed just outside the campground, which connect to all the trails in the greater OHV Area. Each parking spot was designed to accommodate vehicles towing up to 27ft. trailers. There are 20 sites available and amenities include 2 pit style toilets. No potable water is available. Passes can be purchased at the local ranger station in Alpine, or at stores in Pine Valley and Lake Morena.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “There are 20 sites available and amenities include 2 pit style toilets.”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…amenities include 2 pit style toilets. No potable water is available. Passes can be purchased at the local…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
- Hiking
- Picnicking
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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 · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Boulder Oaks EqstCleveland National Forest · 4.5 miCibbets Flat CampgroundCleveland National Forest · 7.8 mi
Wooded Hill GroupCleveland National Forest · 12 mi
Burnt RancheriaCleveland National Forest · 13 mi
El Prado GroupCleveland National Forest · 13 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Campo, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 69°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 32°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
Bobcat Meadow Campground is in California’s 48th congressional district. Its representative, Darrell Issa (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →