China Flat
1Heads up1 fire 46 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $36–$72Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
what’s there
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24 · 11 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 14 km away
- No change
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.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $36–$72 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 Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites
All 24 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. 24 of the 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| China Flat | 1 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 10 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 11 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 12 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 13 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 14 | walk to | $36 |
| China Flat | 15 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 16 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 17 | walk to | $36 |
| China Flat | 18 | walk to | $36 |
| China Flat | 2 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 3 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 4 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 5 | walk to | $36 |
| China Flat | 6 | walk to | $36 |
| China Flat | 7 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 7A | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 8 | standard nonelectric | $36–$72 |
| China Flat | 9 | walk to | $36 |
| Walk In | W-1 | walk to | $36 |
| Walk In | W-2 | walk to | $36 |
| Walk In | W-3 | walk to | $36 |
| Walk In | W-4 | walk to | $36 |
| Walk In | W-5 | walk to | $36 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Sand FlatEldorado National Forest · 0.0 miThe agency publishes this point for 10 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Meyers, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 23°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
China Flat 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 →