Boise Creek
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 17All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Boise Creek Campground is nestled between Brush Mountain and Brannan Mountain in northern California's vast Six Rivers National Forest. The campground sits under a canopy of large Pacific madrone evergreen, Douglas fir and California bay trees, less than two miles from the small mountain town of Willow Creek, known as the Bigfoot capital of the world. Fishing, swimming and whitewater rafting are all close by in the popular Trinity River. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, swimming and whitewater rafting are all available in the Trinity River. The area also provides opportunities for biking, hiking and horseback activities, as well as fishing for migratory salmon and steelhead trout. Campers can walk the 1/2-mile trail from the campground to the nearby Boise Creek and find a swimming hole or explore native plants and wildlife. A drive on the nearby Trinity Scenic Byway is a favorite activity of many visitors.
Facilities
The campground offers several single-family campsites, three of which are for tent camping only. All campsites are furnished with tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
The campground sits at a 680-foot elevation and provides several shady campsites on a creek about two miles west of the Trinity River. A forest of conifers covers the campground, and stands of oak woodland dot the landscape, providing habitat for eight threatened and endangered species, including the bald eagle and the peregrine falcon. The Six Rivers National Forest lies east of Eureka in northwestern California, stretching southward from the Oregon border for about 140 miles. U.S. 101, the famed "Redwood Highway," parallels the inland Forest along the coastline. The Forest is just east of the Redwood National Park.
Nearby Attractions
Boise Creek Campground is located less than two miles west of Willow Creek, where most services are available, including fuel, propane, medical services, restaurants, groceries and laundry facilities. Visitors can also check out the town's 18-hole public disc golf course or participate in the area's numerous cultural and social events, like the annual Bigfoot Days on Labor Day weekend. Three miles southwest of Willow Creek lies the Brush Mountain Lookout tower, which, at 3,988 feet, provides a 360-degree view of the forest's sweeping canyons and valleys.
What the agency tells you
Cell phone coverage is available
There are no electric, water or sewer hookups
Maximum trailer length is 35 feet
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Fees will be collected on-site for extra vehicles
Some sites may be available on a first-come first-served basis
Click here to learn more about the Six Rivers 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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 17 · 3 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features The campground sits…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Coast
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Visitor center
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 230th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
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.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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Tell me when the season opens
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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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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
18 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 17 mapped sitesAll 18 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 17 of the 18 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BOISE CREEK | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 317 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 68 ft | 227 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 299 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 67 ft | 255 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 67 ft | 180 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 67 ft | 197 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 007 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 53 ft | 277 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 008 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 53 ft | 240 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 64 ft | 337 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 55 ft | 399 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 55 ft | 431 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 57 ft | 470 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 57 ft | 528 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 62 ft | 554 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 51 ft | 492 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 016 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 51 ft | 481 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | 017 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 55 ft | 452 ft | $10 |
| BOISE CREEK | Host | host pad | 38 ft | $10 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
East Fork Campground – Six Rivers NF (CA)Six Rivers National Forest · 3.7 miBurnt Ranch CampgroundTrinity National Forest · 12 miDenny CampgroundTrinity National Forest · 14 miAikens Creek West CampgroundSix Rivers National Forest · 20 mi
Hayden Flat Group CampgroundTrinity National Forest · 20 miE-Ne-Nuck CampgroundSix Rivers National Forest · 20 miFrom Willow Creek, California, take State Route 299 for 2 miles west. Enter the campground directly from the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Willow Creek, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 40°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 Septembers are colder than the September 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
Boise Creek is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →