Bridge Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Season
- April 1 – October 31Open April 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Bridge Campground opens Wednesday, April 26. Developed campground on scenic Hat Creek. All sites have fire rings and barbeques. Campground also has day use parking and access to the Fishermen's Trail.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 24 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
“Each additional vehicle is $5 per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hat Creek, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 71°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 30°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
Bridge Campground 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.