Buckeye
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 68All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Buckeye Campground provides a quiet camping experience. The campground is on Buckeye Creek and is shaded by Jeffrey and Lodgepole pines. Hiking along Buckeye Creek into the nearby Hoover Wilderness. Hiking on Eagle Creek to the flanks of Eagle Mountain. Buckeye hot spring (140 degrees F) is just east of the campground. The spring comes out above the creek, over a rock overhang, which creates a cave-like area in the pool. Another small spring is upstream. This is a very popular spring year round. Fishing in Buckeye Creek offers different kind of fishing experience to get away from crowds. Keep reading
Campground is open mid May to mid September, with an elevation of 7009. Amenities include vault toilets and garbage collection. At this time there is no potable water. This tent and small vehicle friendly campground offers single family campsites that include picnic tables and campfire rings. Some sites have bear boxes. Vault toilets and garbage service is provided. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. The campground does not have potable water.
Facilities
This tent and small vehicle friendly campground offers single family campsites that include picnic tables and campfire rings. Some sites have bear boxes. Vault toilets and garbage service is provided. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. The campground does not have potable water.
Natural Features
The Buckeye campground is at an elevation of 7000 feet. Caution: Black bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in approved containers. Opening and closing dates depend heavily upon weather conditions.
Nearby Attractions
Buckeye hot springs (140 degrees F) is just east of the campground. The spring comes out above the creek, over a rock overhang, which creates a cave-like area in the pool. Another small spring is upstream. This is a very popular spring year round. Fishing in Buckeye Creek offers different kind of fishing experience to get away from crowds.
What the agency tells you
Fire Restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions (or red flag warnings), at which point campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. Please check with Camp Host before starting a campfire.
Fire Rings: Do not build additional fire rings. Glass, aluminum and food are prohibited in fire rings. Logs must fit within the fire ring. Chainsaws are not allowed. Fires must be extinguished with water and be cool to the touch before leaving campsite or going to bed.
Generators may be used from 6am-10pm. Quiet hours in the campground are 10pm-6am.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Falling objects: Don't linger under dead, cracked, or broken branches. Run if you hear cracks or snapping from tree roots, trunks or branches (know that sometimes there is no sound and very little time to react). Report falling branches and trees to the Ranger.
6-person limit- there is a max of 6 people per Single campsite. If you exceed this number, purchase two sites and spread your group and equipment out evenly between campsites. This is to protect the natural resources and minimize noise levels. Double site has 12-person max. Triple site has 18-person max.
Pass Discounts: If you use a pass discount you must provide your pass and photo identification upon check in or upon Camp Host request. If you received a pass discount for which you weren't eligible you must pay the difference in price upon arrival.
Pets must be on a leash and under their owners' control while in the campground. Owners are responsible for any damage the pet causes. Aggressive pets may be asked to leave the campground for campers' safety and enjoyment. Please pick up and dispose of pet waste in dumpsters.
Fees for campsites can be paid by cash or check, no credit cards.
Water- Campground does not have water. Please bring your own water for all your needs.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 68
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Not allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets · Pit Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 2 of 68 campsite records / PIT TOILETS on 36 of 68 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…and garbage collection. At this time there is no potable water. This tent and small vehicle friendly campground…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Creek
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 9.2 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 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 · 5
rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
68 sites
All 68 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. 68 of the 68 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Buckeye | 1 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 10 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 11 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 12 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 13 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 14 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 15 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 16 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 17 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 18 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 19 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 2 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 20 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 21 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 22 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 23 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 24 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 25 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 26 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 27 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 28 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 29 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 3 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 30 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 31 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 32 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 33 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 34 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 35 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 36 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 37 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 38 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 39 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 4 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 40 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 41 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 42 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 43 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 44 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 45 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 46 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 47 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 48 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 49 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 5 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 50 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 51 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 52 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 53 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 54 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 55 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 56 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 57 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 58 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 59 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 6 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 60 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 61 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 62 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 63 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 64 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 65 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 66 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 67 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 68 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 7 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 8 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Buckeye | 9 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
25 of 68 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Honeymoon FlatToiyabe National Forest · 2.6 mi
Robinson Creek NorthToiyabe National Forest · 3.7 mi
Robinson Creek SouthToiyabe National Forest · 3.7 mi
PahaToiyabe National Forest · 4.1 mi
Lower Twin Lake CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 4.5 mi
Lower Twin Lakes at BridgeportToiyabe National Forest · 4.6 mi1. Follow Highway 395 south from Bridgeport, turn left and travel approximately seven miles on Twin Lakes Road.
2. Turn right on Buckeye Road at Doc and Al's Resort and travel about 3 miles.
3. Turn left at fork and travel another mile to campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Twin Lakes, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 24°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 10°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Buckeye 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 →