Cedar Grove Stock Campsite
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 19 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $40From, per site
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cedar Grove Stock campsite is located deep in the Kings Canyon of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in central California's rugged Sierra Nevada range. You are required to have stock animals to camp here. If you reserve a site and do not have stock your reservation will be cancelled with full cancellation fees. Keep reading
Recreation
Cedar Grove trails include Hotel Creek, Don Cecil, Roaring River Falls, Zumwalt Meadow, Kanawyer, and Mist Falls. Roads End offers access to the backcountry of Kings Canyon. Backcountry permits are available for overnight stays. Roadside river access is abundant for barbless fishing. Boyden Cavern (with daily tours) and Grizzly Falls are popular destinations in the nearby USNFS land. Stop by the Cedar Grove Visitor Center or attend an interpretive evening campfire ranger program at the amphitheater for more fun and learning.
Facilities
Cedar Grove campground is an equestrian campground only . One campsite, no trash service. What you pack in you must pack out. No potable water on site. Stream fed horse trough, restroom is a porta potty, RV parking and tent site with picnic table, food storage and bear box are provided at Cedar Grove Stock campground. Pay shower and market available short walk or drive at nearby Cedar Grove Village.
Natural Features
Oak and Cedar accent the campground which sits in the base of the canyon near the Kings River; the granite walls of the canyon tower above. This region is characterized by hot days and cool nights during summer.
Nearby Attractions
Mist Falls is a 4-mile hike from Roads End Permit Station. Roads End also offers the Bubbs creek and Kanawyer trails, or you can visit John Muir Rock. Zumwalt Meadow trail connects to Roaring River Falls nearby Knapps Cabin. Don Cecil trail can be taken to lookout peak or Hotel Creek trail can be taken to another lookout. Grizzly Falls is popular and Boyden Cavern offers several daily cave tours. Cedar Grove Campgrounds, Cedar Grove Visitor Center, amphitheater for evening programs, and Cedar Grove Market/Lodge are also nearby.
Charges & Cancellations
Payment in full will be charged to your credit card upon completion of the reservation. A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Additional fees will apply for late cancellations All cancellations made between midnight on the day before arrival and check out time on the day after arrival are considered late cancellations and will incur a $10.00 cancellation fee and will also forfeit the first night’s use fee. Cancellations for a single night’s reservation will forfeit the entire use fee but no cancellation fee will apply.
What the agency tells you
STOCK SITE REGULATIONS: Horses or other stock animals are required to camp in these sites. If you reserve a site and do not have stock your reservation will be cancelled with full cancellation fees. - Upon Arrival have reservation confirmation email printout or screenshot to confirm with campground staff. - Maximum 6 people per site. - Maximum 10 stock per site. - Maximum 2 vehicles per site. Overflow parking is available at the Wolverton Trailhead. - Horse Trailers must enter the Parks through the Big Stump Entrance on Hwy 180. - Check road conditions at nps.gov/seki - Porta potty only available on site. - All horse manure and uneaten feed must be raked up and disposed of daily. NO TRASH SERVICE, what you pack in you must pack out. - No Potable water available on site. Stream fed water trough must be emptied at the end of the stay. - Users are only permitted to feed commercially processed pellets, rolled grains, fermented hay, or California or Nevada certified weed-free forage (baled or loose hay, hay cubes). - Stock may not be tied to trees. - Night limit for these campsites is 7 nights per stay and 14 nights per season. - Quiet hours are from 10 PM to 6 AM. - ACTIVE BEAR AREA day and night. Food and scented items must be securely stored.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Portable Toilets
- “…Stream fed horse trough, restroom is a porta potty, RV parking and tent site with picnic table, food…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…What you pack in you must pack out. No potable water on site. Stream fed horse trough, restroom is a…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Meadow
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Night sky · 387th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
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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 lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($40), 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.
“A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Additional fees will apply for late cancellations - All cancellations made between midnight on the day before arrival and check out time on the day after arrival are considered late cancellations and will incur a $10.00 cancellation fee and wi…” · this campground’s own 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
| Cedar Grove Stock | Stock Site 1 | equestrian nonelectric | 55 ft | 826 ft | 1,565 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Canyon View Group SitesKings Canyon National Park · 0.4 mi
Sentinel CampgroundKings Canyon National Park · 0.5 mi
Sheep Creek CampgroundKings Canyon National Park · 0.5 mi
Moraine Campground (CA)Kings Canyon National Park · 0.5 miConvict Flat CampgroundSequoia National Forest · 9.6 mi
Big Meadow Campground - US Forest Service Sequoia National Forest (CA)Giant Sequoia National Monument · 11 miVehicles over 22 feet are not advised between Potwisha Campground and the Giant Forest Museum when entering through Sequoia National Park. Vehicles over 22 feet should use the Kings Canyon National Park Entrance. Enter through the Kings Canyon National Park entrance (Big Stump Entrance Station) and stay on Hwy 180 for 30 miles to Cedar Grove. Once in Cedar Grove, turn off Hwy 180 onto North Side Dr. for the Motor Nature Trail. Follow the signs for the Pack Station. You will pass the Hotel Creek trailhead before arriving at the Pack Station and Cedar Grove Stock Campsite. The stock site is across the street from the Pack Station.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wilsonia, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 81°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 29°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
Cedar Grove Stock Campsite 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 →