Brandy Creek RV
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 1532 of them walk-up
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
A secluded hilltop RV site close to Brandy Creek Marina and within walking distance of Brandy Creek Beach, the Brandy Creek trail and the Davis Gulch trail. Campground is an asphalt parking lot with 15 parking sites. Only for self-contained units that have their own toilets, such as recreational vehicles, cab-over campers, pop-up tent trailers, and fifth wheels. There is no bathroom and no hookups at this campground. One main water and dump station shared by all campers.
Facilities
- Toilets
- None. Pack out what you bring in
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 911th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
Some sites book, the rest walk up
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($20), 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
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
DRY CREEK GROUP CAMPGROUND (Whiskeytown NRA)Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.7 mi
Brandy Creek Primitive CampgroundWhiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.2 mi
Sheep Camp Primitive CampgroundWhiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.6 miPeltier Bridge Primitive CampgroundWhiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.5 mi
Horse Camp Primitive CampgroundWhiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.6 mi
Crystal Creek Primitive CampgroundWhiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 5.3 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Shasta, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 52°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 39°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 Julys are colder than the July 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
Brandy Creek RV is in California’s 1st congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Doug LaMalfa for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.