Chapman
1Heads up1 fire 41 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24–$48Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2522 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Chapman Creek Campground is located next to Chapman Creek, near the North Yuba River. Visitors enjoy a wide variety of recreational activities in the area, including hiking, mountain biking, hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing, This facility is operated and maintained by the Tahoe National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
A large network of hiking trails is available in the area, including the nearby Pacific Crest Trail. The trailhead for the 2-mile long Chapman Creek Trail is located within the campground. Boating, fishing and swimming opportunites are available at nearby Sardine Lakes, about five miles from the campground. Sardine Lakes Resort offers boat rentals.
Facilities
The campground offers several single-family campsites. Each site is equipped with a picnic table, food storage locker and campfire ring. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
The campground is split into two loops, with one overlooking Chapman Creek and the other, neighboring a small meadow. Stands of mature fir and lodgepole pine trees covers the area, providing pleasant shade at most campsites. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (530) 265-4531.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby Lakes Basin area offers boating, fishing, hiking and more than 30 miles of maintained trails, that are also open to biking and horseback riding. The lakes provide visitors with ample opportunities to enjoy boating, canoeing and fishing. Anglers will find rainbow and brook trout in many of the scenic bodies of water in the area. A boat ramp is located at Gold Lake.
Charges & Cancellations
No Show Policy A no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date (or for day-use facilities, by check-in time the day of arrival). * No-show customers are only recorded at staffed facilities. At most remote facilities, all customers are noted as automatically checked-in on the date of arrival. * It is recommended that staffed facilities hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. * It is recommended that staffed facilities hold group day-use facilities until check-in time on the arrival date. There is no change fee if a customer extends or shortens a reservation if the change includes dates from the original reservation. If they choose to depart early, they may forfeit some or all of the recreation fees. There is no change fee if the customer changes campsites that are the same price and on the same reservation dates in the same campground. If the campsite the customer is changing to has a price difference, the customer will be responsible for any additional fees or be provided with a refund, based on the price difference. Where recorded, no-show customers are assessed a $20.00 no-show fee and forfeit the first night's recreation fee for a campsite or forfeit the entire day-use recreation fee for a day-use facility. We recommend customers contact the facility if they are en route to their reservation but cannot make it by the check-in date. In these cases, no refund will be issued, but the facility can ensure that a "no-show" fee is not assessed.
What the agency tells you
Off-highway vehicle use is prohibited within the campground.
One vehicle (or two motorcycles) included with reservation. Additional vehicle fee cost is $5/each per night for all untowed vehicles. Please pay extra vehicle fee at the self-serve fee tube located near campground entrance.
Bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in approved containers
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Utility hookups and showers are not available
Click here for more information on the Tahoe National Forest
Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. For current fire conditions or weather closures contact the Yuba River Ranger District (530) 288-3231 (voice), (530) 288-3656 (TDD).
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No Show Policy A no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date (or for day-use facilities, by check-in time the day of arrival). * No-show customers are only recorded at staffed facilities. At most remote facilities, all customers are noted as automatically checked-in on the date of arrival. * It is recommended that staffed facilities hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. * It is recommended that staffed facilities hold group day-use facilities until check-in time on the arrival date. There is no change fee if a customer extends or shortens a reservation if the change includes dates from the original reservation. If they choose to depart early, they may forfeit some or all of the recreation fees. There is no change fee if the customer changes campsites that are the same price and on the same reservation dates in the same campground. If the campsite the customer is changing to has a price difference, the customer will be responsible for any additional fees or be provided with a refund, based on the price difference. Where recorded, no-show customers are assessed a $20.00 no-show fee and forfeit the first night's recreation fee for a campsite or forfeit the entire day-use recreation fee for a day-use facility. We recommend customers contact the facility if they are en route to their reservation but cannot make it by the check-in date. In these cases, no refund will be issued, but the facility can ensure that a "no-show" fee is not assessed.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 25 · 4 tent-only, 1 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…food storage locker and campfire ring. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and campfire ring. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features The campground is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Night sky · 538th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 22 of the 25 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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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
“Additional vehicle fee cost is $5/each per night for all untowed vehicles.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$48 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.
“Where recorded, no-show customers are assessed a $20.00 no-show fee and forfeit the first night's recreation fee for a campsite or forfeit the entire day-use recreation fee for a day-use facility.” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 25 mapped sitesAll 26 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 17 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA CHAPMAN | 001D | rv nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 591 ft | |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 002D | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 127 ft | 563 ftChapman Creek | |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 003D | rv nonelectric | 14 ft | 129 ft | 437 ftChapman Creek | |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 153 ft | 258 ftChapman Creek | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 005D | rv nonelectric | 28 ft | 45 ft | 664 ftChapman Creek | |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 006 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 45 ft | 660 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 007 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 88 ft | 669 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 008 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 103 ft | 608 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 110 ft | 498 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 010 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 136 ft | 93 ftChapman Creek | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 77 ft | 164 ftChapman Creek | |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 66 ft | 155 ftChapman Creek | |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 013 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 66 ft | 157 ftChapman Creek | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 96 ft | 190 ftChapman Creek | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 96 ft | 97 ftChapman Creek | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 016 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 217 ftChapman Creek | $24–$48 | |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 8 ft | 68 ft | 313 ftChapman Creek | |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 018 | tent only nonelectric | 18 ft | 68 ft | 315 ftChapman Creek | |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 019 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 138 ft | 469 ftChapman Creek | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 020 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 76 ft | 606 ftChapman Creek | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 606 ftChapman Creek | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 022 | walk to | 16 ft | 124 ft | 730 ftChapman Creek | $24 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 109 ft | 840 ftChapman Creek | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 026 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 84 ft | 882 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | 027 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 84 ft | 812 ft | $24–$48 |
| AREA CHAPMAN | Host Site | host pad | 35 ft | 536 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
SierraTahoe National Forest · 0.7 mi
Yuba Pass CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 3.0 mi
Salmon CreekTahoe National Forest · 3.6 miSardine CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 3.8 mi
Sardine LakeTahoe National Forest · 3.9 miFrom Sierra City, take Highway 49 north 8 miles. The campground is on the left side of the highway.
From Sierraville, take Highway 49 south 14.8 miles. The campground is on the right side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sierra City, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Chapman 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 →