Bridalveil Creek Campground
3Heads up1 park alert · 2 fires, nearest 7 mi
Closed for want of money or people is a choice somebody made.Ask who decided →
- Right now
- ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
- Sites
- 107In the agency’s record
- Season
- July 3 – August 14Open July 3 through August 14
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bridalveil Creek Campground is closed for the season. Bridalveil Creek's horse site reservations have moved here: Bridalveil Creek Horse Campsites, Yosemite National Park - Recreation.gov Staying at Bridalveil Creek Campground requires reservations. There are no first come, first served sites available . Bridalveil Creek is located in breathtaking Yosemite National Park in Central California's rugged Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. The site is situated on Glacier Point Road at an elevation of 7,200 feet, 26 miles from Yosemite Valley. Keep reading
Within Yosemite, visitors can gaze upon waterfalls, sheer granite cliffs, deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, vast wilderness areas and much more. Reservation Tips! Campsites in Yosemite are extremely popular and typically sell out in minutes. Login to your account or create a new account before the 7:00 a.m. (PST) release time. You may only add reservations to your cart and proceed with your reservation if you are logged into your account. The recreation.gov call center does NOT have access to additional sites or additional information beyond what is published on recreation.gov. Yosemite National Park Campground Reservation Dates For additional park information, call (209)372-0200 or visit www.nps.gov/yose Recreation Yosemite's trails, cliffs, roads and rivers provide endless recreational activities for any kind of visitor. Hiking, biking, rock climbing, fishing, horseback riding, rafting, auto touring and photography are all very popular activities within the park. Hiking trails near Bridalveil Creek Campground are plentiful, ranging in length from a half-mile to nearly 13 miles. Popular hikes include the 4-Mile Trail, Panorama Trail, Taft Point, Sentinel Dome and Ostrander Lake.
Facilities
Bridalveil Creek Campground offers family, group and horse campsites that are available by advanced reservation only. Paved roads and parking spurs, flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Each campsite contains a picnic table, fire ring and a food storage locker.
Natural Features
The area is forested with pure stands of Red fir and Lodgepole pine, offering a pleasant combination of sun and shade. Vanilla-scented Jeffrey pine and picturesque western Juniper dot the landscape. Through the trees, Yosemite's craggy granite peaks are visible, and the gentle, refreshing Bridalveil Creek flows near the site.
Nearby Attractions
A scenic, 7-mile drive leads to Glacier Point, with sweeping views of Yosemite Valley, Little Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, Vernal and Nevada Falls and Clouds Rest, among other notable landmarks. Just 45 minutes away is Yosemite Valley, an awe-inspiring landscape containing many of the famous features for which Yosemite National Park is known. Hiking trails and bike paths are abundant in the valley. Rafting the Merced River is a fun way to cool down on a summer day when water levels are sufficient. Yosemite Valley also offers numerous guided bus tours, educational programs, museums, ranger-led activities, and an art center with workshops. The Tioga Road offers a 39-mile scenic drive past forests, meadows, lakes and granite domes. Tuolumne Meadows embodies the high-country of the Sierra Nevada, with its broad sub-alpine meadows and granite domes and peaks. Beautiful Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is home to spectacular scenery and numerous wilderness trailheads.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellation of individual or equestrian site reservations will be charged a $10 service fee. If the cancellation is within 48 hours of the arrival date, the first night's fee will also be charged. Cancellations for a single night’s use within 48 hours will not receive a refund, but will not be assessed an additional service fee. Cancellation of a group site reservation will incur a $10.00 service fee plus the first night’s use fee when the reservation is cancelled within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date. No-shows for any type of reservation will be charged a $20 service fee and the first night's fee.
What the agency tells you
You are responsible for reading the site alerts and booking a site that will accommodate your equipment.
If arriving one or more days late, call (209) 375-9535; your reservation will be canceled if we do not hear from you within 24 hours of your arrival date.
Bears and wildlife are present! Food and toiletries must be stored 24 hours/day. - Food storage lockers are provided in all campsites and measure 43" wide by 35" deep by 28" tall. - Absolutely no food stored in vehicles. - Dispose of garbage immediately in bear-proof dumpsters. - These rules are strictly enforced!
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Potable water at the dump stations located one mile south of Wawona Campground on Highway 41 or in Yosemite Valley before Upper Pines Campground.
Your camping reservation does NOT get you into Yosemite for free. You must pay an additional fee per vehicle at the park entrance or buy a pass ahead of time on recreation.gov.
For additional park information, visit www.nps.gov/yose
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Help Yosemite be a Zero Landfill park! Leave excess packaging at home. Use refillable water & propane bottles, food containers and travel mugs. Place all of your recyclable waste in designated recycling containers. For more information go to: https://www.nps.gov/yose/getinvolved/zlf.htm
Resale or auction of advance reservations is prohibited.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 107 · 28 tent-only, 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Backpacking
- Birding
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Water access
- Wilderness access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 443rd darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
Nothing to book until it reopens
The campground closed unexpectedly due to a lightning strike impacting critical infrastructure (potable water and restrooms); originally scheduled to close on September 7, 2026.
The closure above is the reading. We hold no availability snapshot for this campground, so there’s no thirty-night strip to draw under it.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
“- Cancellation of individual or equestrian site reservations will be charged a $10 service fee. Cancellations for a single night’s use within 48 hours will not receive a refund, but will not be assessed an additional service fee. - Cancellation of a group site reservation will incur a $10.00 service fee plus the fir…” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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 · 4
What the agency said · 1
The campground closed unexpectedly due to a lightning strike impacting critical infrastructure (potable water and restrooms); originally scheduled to close on September 7, 2026.
National Park Service · the source publishes no posting date
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Upper Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.0 mi · 240 sites
- Lower Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.2 mi · 75 sites
- North Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.2 mi · 99 sites
- Wawona CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.6 mi · 99 sites
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
107 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 106 mapped sitesAll 107 sites
| A | 001 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 49 ft | 286 ft | |
| A | 002 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 56 ft | 348 ft | |
| A | 003 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 49 ft | 269 ft | |
| A | 004 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 56 ft | 327 ft | |
| A | 005 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 52 ft | 327 ft | |
| A | 006 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 65 ft | 263 ft | |
| A | 007 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 52 ft | 358 ft | |
| A | 008 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 64 ft | 294 ft | |
| A | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 61 ft | 352 ft | |
| A | 010 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 56 ft | 407 ft | |
| A | 011 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 61 ft | 411 ft | |
| A | 012 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 77 ft | 492 ft | |
| A | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 61 ft | 490 ft | |
| A | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 61 ft | 551 ft | |
| A | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 69 ft | 584 ft | |
| A | 016 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 71 ft | 557 ft | |
| A | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 50 ft | 464 ft | |
| A | 018 | tent only nonelectric | 18 ft | 50 ft | 501 ft | |
| A | 019 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 59 ft | 505 ft | |
| A | 020 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 59 ft | 463 ft | |
| A | 021 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 64 ft | 420 ft | |
| A | 022 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 72 ft | 395 ft | |
| A | 023 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 43 ft | 332 ft | |
| A | 024 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 43 ft | 292 ft | |
| A | 025 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 64 ft | 369 ft | |
| A | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 50 ft | 301 ft | |
| A | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 50 ft | 327 ft | |
| A | 031 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 86 ft | 443 ft | |
| A | 032 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 82 ft | 527 ft | |
| A | 033 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 82 ft | 560 ft | |
| A | 034 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 70 ft | 560 ft | |
| A | 035 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 70 ft | 575 ft | |
| A | 036 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 78 ft | 535 ft | |
| A | 037 | tent only nonelectric | 17 ft | 78 ft | 459 ft | |
| A | Group A | group tent only area nonelectric | 17 ft | 66 ft | 366 ft | |
| A | Group B | group tent only area nonelectric | 17 ft | 82 ft | 443 ft | |
| B | 038 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 83 ft | 629 ft | |
| B | 039 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 91 ft | 638 ft | |
| B | 040 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 67 ft | 553 ft | |
| B | 041 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 70 ft | 512 ft | |
| B | 042 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 67 ft | 499 ft | |
| B | 043 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 59 ft | 446 ft | |
| B | 044 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 95 ft | 404 ft | |
| B | 045 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 59 ft | 388 ft | |
| B | 046 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 45 ft | 340 ft | |
| B | 047 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 43 ft | 304 ft | |
| B | 048 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 41 ft | 271 ft | |
| B | 049 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 41 ft | 231 ft | |
| B | 050 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 44 ft | 203 ft | |
| B | 051 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 45 ft | 165 ft | |
| B | 052 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 47 ft | 122 ft | |
| B | 053 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 61 ft | 180 ft | |
| B | 054 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 47 ft | 117 ft | |
| B | 055 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 46 ft | 177 ft | |
| B | 056 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 36 ft | 133 ft | |
| B | 057 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 57 ft | 191 ft | |
| B | 058 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 36 ft | 126 ft | |
| B | 059 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 63 ft | 129 ft | |
| B | 060 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 54 ft | 223 ft | |
| B | 061 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 54 ft | 176 ft | |
| B | 062 | type not stated | 15 ft | 224 ft | ||
| B | 063 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 57 ft | 274 ft | |
| B | 064 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 57 ft | 330 ft | |
| B | 065 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 62 ft | 402 ft | |
| B | 066 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 62 ft | 463 ft | |
| B | 067 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 72 ft | 534 ft | |
| B | 068 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 71 ft | 625 ft | |
| C | 069 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 73 ft | 704 ft | |
| C | 070 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 73 ft | 699 ft | |
| C | 071 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 59 ft | 616 ft | |
| C | 072 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 66 ft | 673 ft | |
| C | 073 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 59 ft | 582 ft | |
| C | 074 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 82 ft | 599 ft | |
| C | 075 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 67 ft | 509 ft | |
| C | 076 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | yes | 67 ft | 443 ft |
| C | 077 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 58 ft | 303 ft |
| C | 078 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 37 ft | 255 ft | |
| C | 079 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 37 ft | 227 ft | |
| C | 080 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 57 ft | 167 ft | |
| C | 081 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 46 ft | 179 ft | |
| C | 082 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 51 ft | 119 ft | |
| C | 083 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 41 ft | 152 ft | |
| C | 084 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 44 ft | 74 ft | |
| C | 085 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 41 ft | 125 ft | |
| C | 086 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 44 ft | 54 ft | |
| C | 087 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 43 ft | 51 ft | |
| C | 088 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 37 ft | 72 ft | |
| C | 089 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 43 ft | 132 ft | |
| C | 090 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 37 ft | 96 ft | |
| C | 091 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 38 ft | 123 ft | |
| C | 092 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 42 ft | 139 ft | |
| C | 093 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 35 ft | 161 ft | |
| C | 094 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 35 ft | 195 ft | |
| C | 095 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 48 ft | 223 ft | |
| C | 096 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 59 ft | 291 ft | |
| C | 097 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 74 ft | 339 ft | |
| C | 098 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 59 ft | 328 ft | |
| C | 099 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 67 ft | 416 ft | |
| C | 100 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 66 ft | 370 ft | |
| C | 101 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 48 ft | 470 ft | |
| C | 102 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 63 ft | 441 ft | |
| C | 103 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 48 ft | 512 ft | |
| C | 104 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 62 ft | 513 ft | |
| C | 105 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 56 ft | 561 ft | |
| C | 106 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 64 ft | 585 ft | |
| C | 107 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 64 ft | 639 ft | |
| C | 108 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 68 ft | 621 ft |
25 of 107 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Camp 4Yosemite National Park · 5.5 mi
Upper Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.0 mi
Lower Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.2 mi
North Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.2 mi
Wawona CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.6 mi
Wawona Horse CampsitesYosemite National Park · 8.7 miTake Highway 41 north from Fresno, Highway 140 east from Merced, or Highway 120 east from Manteca into Yosemite National Park. Follow signs to Glacier Point Road (located off Highway 41). The campground is located 9 miles up the Glacier Point Road, and 26 miles from Yosemite Valley.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Yosemite West, CA
Typical weather
Typical July night 60°F, day 75°F.
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 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 · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Bridalveil Creek Campground is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 4
Filed as maintenance from the agency’s own words “infrastructure”. That reading is ours. The draft to the agency asks what closed Bridalveil Creek Campground, what reopening it would cost and what date they’re working towards. The draft to Congress asks them to put the same question in writing and to fund the answer.
- The office that runs itYosemite National ParkNational Park Service unit
- The member who votes the moneyTom McClintockU.S. Representative · California’s 5th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAdam B. SchiffU.S. Senator · California
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAlex PadillaU.S. Senator · California
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who found out at the gate, or a week before the trip. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks what remains to be done at Bridalveil Creek Campground, what it costs, and what date they’re working towards.
Subject Bridalveil Creek Campground: what it would take to reopen
To the National Park Service, Yosemite National Park: I was planning to camp at Bridalveil Creek Campground in California and found it closed. The notice says: "The campground closed unexpectedly due to a lightning strike impacting critical infrastructure (potable water and restrooms); originally scheduled to close on September 7, 2026." (https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/bvcamp.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) Could you tell me what work remains at Bridalveil Creek Campground, what it’s expected to cost, and what date you’re working towards? If the schedule depends on funding or staffing that hasn’t arrived, please say so plainly. That’s a thing the public can do something about, and we can’t help with a delay nobody tells us about. Sent about Bridalveil Creek Campground (Yosemite National Park, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to find out what reopening Bridalveil Creek Campground would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Bridalveil Creek Campground is closed (Yosemite National Park, California)
Dear Tom McClintock, I’m a constituent in California’s 5th district. I went to camp at Bridalveil Creek Campground, Yosemite National Park, California and found it closed. The notice says: "The campground closed unexpectedly due to a lightning strike impacting critical infrastructure (potable water and restrooms); originally scheduled to close on September 7, 2026." (https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/bvcamp.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) That’s a maintenance closure, which makes it a budget question before it’s anything else. A campground doesn’t need this work because of bad luck. It needs it because the work was deferred until it couldn’t be deferred any longer. Please ask the National Park Service, in writing, what reopening Bridalveil Creek Campground would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 107 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Bridalveil Creek Campground (Yosemite National Park, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to find out what reopening Bridalveil Creek Campground would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Bridalveil Creek Campground is closed (Yosemite National Park, California)
Dear Adam B. Schiff, I’m a constituent in California. I went to camp at Bridalveil Creek Campground, Yosemite National Park, California and found it closed. The notice says: "The campground closed unexpectedly due to a lightning strike impacting critical infrastructure (potable water and restrooms); originally scheduled to close on September 7, 2026." (https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/bvcamp.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) That’s a maintenance closure, which makes it a budget question before it’s anything else. A campground doesn’t need this work because of bad luck. It needs it because the work was deferred until it couldn’t be deferred any longer. Please ask the National Park Service, in writing, what reopening Bridalveil Creek Campground would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 107 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Bridalveil Creek Campground (Yosemite National Park, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to find out what reopening Bridalveil Creek Campground would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Bridalveil Creek Campground is closed (Yosemite National Park, California)
Dear Alex Padilla, I’m a constituent in California. I went to camp at Bridalveil Creek Campground, Yosemite National Park, California and found it closed. The notice says: "The campground closed unexpectedly due to a lightning strike impacting critical infrastructure (potable water and restrooms); originally scheduled to close on September 7, 2026." (https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/bvcamp.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) That’s a maintenance closure, which makes it a budget question before it’s anything else. A campground doesn’t need this work because of bad luck. It needs it because the work was deferred until it couldn’t be deferred any longer. Please ask the National Park Service, in writing, what reopening Bridalveil Creek Campground would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 107 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Bridalveil Creek Campground (Yosemite National Park, California) via campanac.com