Bridge Camp (CA)
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $15–$16Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 111 on recreation.gov
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bridge Camp Campground is located on Staurt Forts Creek, it has a total of 10 single sites with an average back in around 16ft. This campground has vault toilets and water spigots dependent on season. There are picnic tables and fire rings with grills on top located at each site. The campground is a horse camp and remote. This Campground is on a First Come - First Serve Basis, vistors are required to physically be at the campground to purchase and claim a site. You must also occupy the area the day you pay for it, no advance payments. We encourage our visitors to download the recreation.gov app to take advantage of the Scan & Pay Option. There is also a Iron Ranger on site that you can pay with cash or check. Keep reading
Recreation
Trinity offers wholesome memories, perfect for families, adventures and everything in-between. There are multiple hiking trails and rivers making it the perfect destination for exploration. Popular activities on Trinity Lake include boating, fishing, sailing and water skiing. Different Species of fish in Trinity Lake include smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, rainbow trout, catfish, kokanee salmon, Chinook salmon. Bass fishing – dredger piles near the head of the lake is the most promising locations. Fishing near the shoreline during spring (March-June) is best. Trout fishing – found year-round throughout the lake but best during spring where they can be found nearly anywhere. During the summer months trout tend to stay near the mouths of the major tributaries.
Facilities
A public boat ramp is located approximately 8 miles away at Minersville (dependent on water level). To view current ramp information visit our website: Ramp Information Natural Features Trinity Lake is one of the largest reservoirs in California, it has an elevation around 2,387' with around 145 miles of shoreline. Trinity is made up of 3 arms: Papose, Buckeye and Stuart Fork Arm. The Water Volume of Trinity Lake: 2,447,650 acre-ft. There are a variety of coves and arms perfect for fishing or a quiet picnic on the water. The main body of the lake has plenty of room for water sports like wakeboarding or tubing.
Nearby Attractions
There are several attractions in the area for a list view our website: Local Attractions
What the agency tells you
Only one vehicle is included in the cost of single sites and two vehicles in double sites;Extra vehicle fee is $10 per night.
Poison oak is abundant throughout the forest
If applicable, the holder of the Golden Pass must be present; Must bring card to the area
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out time 2 P.M.
Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit: Firewood Information
Wildlife is frequent in the area; all food must be kept in approved containers: Wildlife Info
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…back in around 16ft. This campground has vault toilets and water spigots dependent on season. There are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…This campground has vault toilets and water spigots dependent on season. There are picnic tables and…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Hiking
- Horse Camping
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Tubing
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:40 UTC
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 11 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee is $10 per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $15–$16 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites
All 11 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. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Bridge Camp | Standard Nonelectric 1 | standard nonelectric | $15–$16 |
| Bridge Camp | Standard Nonelectric 10 | standard nonelectric | $15–$16 |
| Bridge Camp | Standard Nonelectric 2 | standard nonelectric | $15–$16 |
| Bridge Camp | Standard Nonelectric 3 | standard nonelectric | $15–$16 |
| Bridge Camp | Standard Nonelectric 4 | standard nonelectric | $15–$16 |
| Bridge Camp | Standard Nonelectric 5 | standard nonelectric | $15–$16 |
| Bridge Camp | Standard Nonelectric 6 | standard nonelectric | $15–$16 |
| Bridge Camp | Standard Nonelectric 7 | standard nonelectric | $15–$16 |
| Bridge Camp | Standard Nonelectric 8 | standard nonelectric | $15–$16 |
| Bridge Camp | Standard Nonelectric 9 | standard nonelectric | $15–$16 |
| S&P Loop | Standard Nonelectric | standard nonelectric | $15–$16 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Stoney Group Shasta-TrinityWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.7 miStoney Creek Group CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.8 miRush Creek CampgroundTrinity National Forest · 3.9 mi
FawnWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 4.3 mi
TanneryWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 4.3 miBridge Camp is located 17 miles north of Weaverville
Going west on 299 take a right on Trinity Dam Blvd follow for about 4.5 miles. Turn left onto Lewiston Pike Rd about 1 mile then turn left onto Rush Creek Rd for about 8 miles. Turn right onto Hwy 3 about 6 miles turn left onto Trinity Alps Rd follow for about 4 miles campground is on the left.
Campground can also be mapped via google maps.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Weaverville, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 31°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 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
Bridge Camp (CA) 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 →