CAMPANAC.Powered by public lands intelligenceMore Than Just Parks
The map
U.S. Forest Service · CA

Camp 9 Lakeside Group Campgrounds

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 1 mi
Wildfire
Cyrus fire · 0.7 mi away · 543 acres · 95% contained · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Carrier fire · 38 mi away · updated Oct 17, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 17, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Get directionsWhat it costs, and the rules
Right now
OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
Season
May 1 – October 31Open May 1 through October 31
Drawn from the record · 2,770 ft · 0% tree cover · Isabella Lake within reach · Bortle 4 sky
2,770 ftElevation
3,318 ftWater · Isabella Lake
1.3 miSE of Wofford Heights, CA
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 854th darkest of 1,201 in CA
Open May 1 through October 31Today

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Camp 9 Lakeside Campgrounds offers a wide variety of recreational opportunities including: group camping (max 35 occupants), waterskiing, boating, swimming, and fishing in the lake. Mobility-impaired access to the beach. Full shade. A motocross track and shooting range are nearby. Additional facilities include a fish cleaning station and a volleyball court. Includes a dump station for Recreational Vehicles at a cost of $20/dump. Eleven (11) group camping sites are open year round for reservation.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Dump station
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Beach
Source: Stated in the agency description

Phone before you drive

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Directions
Every line of the receipt · 8

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Camp 9 Group 1-50pp $212 per night.
Camp 9 Group 2 - 35pp $148 per night.
Camp 9 Group 3 - 20pp $85 per night.
Boat launch ramp
RV dumpsite with automated fee collection $20
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Getting there

the map and the coordinate
Coordinate35.69066, -118.42523

Where it is

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today82°Sunny2% rain
Tonight52°Mostly Clear2% rain
Sunday82°Sunny
Sunday Night51°Clear

NWS forecast for Kernville, CA

Source: National Weather Service, HNX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 46°F, day 81°F.

110°32°20°

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.

Measured at: KERN RIVER PH 3, CA (USC00044523), 6 miles away and 67 ft lower
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Woolstaff41,445 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Channell45,429 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Who answers for this land

Vince Fong, official portrait

Camp 9 Lakeside Group Campgrounds is in California’s 20th congressional district. Its representative, Vince Fong (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now. Its own recreation database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 17, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.3 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 1,201 rated federal campgrounds in California · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Kernville, CA, 0 mi S (a census designated place). Straight line.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026