Boyington Mill
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 1312 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 24 – October 14Open May 24 through October 14
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Boyington Mill Campground is located along the Little Truckee River, just 20 minutes from Truckee. Visitors enjoy the area for its fishing, abundant hiking opportunities and off-road trails. Stampede and Boca reservoirs are nearby for boating and swimming. This facility is operated and maintained by Lake Tahoe Hospitality LLC for the Tahoe National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
Fly-fishing for rainbow and brown trout in the Little Truckee River is a popular activity enjoyed by visitors to the campground. The surrounding area offers hiking, mountain biking and off-road vehicle trails.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family campsites, each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets are provided, but there is no drinking water available at the site.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the banks of the Little Truckee River, which is known as one of Northern California's best catch-and-release fly-fishing streams. It is situated among sparse Jeffrey pine and fir trees and shade within the campground is limited. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (530) 606-3978 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Boca Reservoir is a couple miles south of the campground. Stampede Reservoir is less than six miles north. Boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing are popular activities on both scenic lakes. Lake Tahoe is located about 35 minutes from the campground and offers excellent boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and scenic driving opportunities, as well as popular dining, shopping and lodging options. Truckee, 20 minutes away, offers all the amenities of a year round recreational mountain town including interstate highway connectivity, top notch restaurants, resorts and hotels, grocery stores, gas stations, shopping, and historic sites. Other recreational opportunities include Historic Boca Townsite Interpretive Trail, Donner Camp Interpretive Trail, Overland Emigrant Commemorative Trial, Stampede Reservoir Recreation Area, Prosser Pits OHV area, and numerous hiking, mountain biking, and OHV trails.
What the agency tells you
Bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in appropriate containers. Bear lockers are 48" wide x 28" deep x 35" tall. Please plan food storage containers appropriately.
Drinking water is not available at this campground. Campers must bring their own supply. The closest drinking water can be found at Boca Rest Camprgound.
Off-road vehicles can only be used to enter and exit the facility. Recreational riding is not allowed in the campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Click here for more information on the Tahoe National Forest.
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. For current fire conditions or weather closures contact the Truckee Ranger District (530) 587-3558 (voice), (530) 587-6907 (TDD).
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. Firewood available from the campground hosts at Boca Rest Campground or Boca Spring Campground (subject to availability).
One vehicle included with reservation. Additional vehicle fee cost is $10/each per night for all vehicles. All operable, highway legal vehicles must pay extra vehicle fee, excluding the single vehicle included with the reservation. Please pay extra vehicle fee at the self-serve fee tube located near campground entrance if not paid online.
Campsite check-out time is 12:00pm. Check-in time is 2:00pm.
6 people and 2 dogs maximum per single site. Dogs shall always be kept on leash no longer than six feet or otherwise confined. Violation notices WILL be issued for non-compliance.
Modifications for this campground must be made PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 13 · 3 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets are provided, but there is no drinking water…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…grill. Vault toilets are provided, but there is no drinking water available at the site. Natural Features The…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Swimming
- Night sky · 1041st darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 23 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 12 of the 13 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.
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What you actually pay
“Additional vehicle fee cost is $10/each per night for all vehicles.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
13 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 13 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. 9 of the 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 001 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 62 ft | 39 ftLittle Truckee River | $20 |
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 62 ft | 33 ftLittle Truckee River | $20 |
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 65 ft | 36 ftLittle Truckee River | $20 |
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 64 ft | 33 ftLittle Truckee River | ||
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 005 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 47 ft | 40 ftLittle Truckee River | $20 |
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 006 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 47 ft | 44 ftLittle Truckee River | |
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 007 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 59 ft | 66 ftLittle Truckee River | $20 |
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 008 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 86 ft | 82 ftLittle Truckee River | $20 |
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 009 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 71 ft | 148 ftLittle Truckee River | $20 |
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 010 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 71 ft | 84 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 50 ft | 75 ft | 76 ft | |
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 96 ft | 127 ftLittle Truckee River | $20 |
| AREA BOYINGTON MILL | 013 | type not stated | 30 ft | 120 ftLittle Truckee River |
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
Boca SpringTahoe National Forest · 1.2 mi
Boca Rest CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 1.3 mi
Logger CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 2.5 mi
Emigrant GroupTahoe National Forest · 2.7 mi
Boca CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 3.1 mi
Prosser Ranch GroupTahoe National Forest · 5.4 miFrom Truckee, travel east on Highway 80 for 10 miles, to the Hirschdale Road exit. Follow Hirschdale Road approximately five miles north, to the campground. 14745 Stampede Meadows Road, Floriston, CA 96111
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Truckee, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 67°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 25°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 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
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
Boyington Mill is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →