Chris Flat
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $28From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Chris Flat campground is located in Walker Canyon which is a National Scenic Byway. The Walker River is known for fishing opportunities. The Walker River is stocked with trout. Keep reading
Facilities
This campground is well suited for tent and RV camping. The campsites offer picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets, drinking water, and garbage service are provided. Firewood is available for purchase from the host.
Natural Features
The Chris Flat campground is at an elevation of 6600 feet.
What the agency tells you
Chris Flat Campground is located in Walker Canyon which is a National Scenic Byway at an elevation of 6600. The Walker River is known for fishing opportunities. The Walker River is stocked with trout. The campground offers vault toilets, garbage service, and drinking water. Campground is first come first serve, open mid April to early October.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…offer picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets, drinking water, and garbage service are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and campfire rings. Vault toilets, drinking water, and garbage service are provided. Firewood is…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 29 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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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $28 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites
All 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Chris Flat | 1 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 10 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 11 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 12 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 13 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 14 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 15 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 2 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 3 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 4 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 5 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 6 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 7 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 8 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Chris Flat | 9 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
BootlegToiyabe National Forest · 1.6 mi
Sonora BridgeToiyabe National Forest · 2.3 mi
ObsidianToiyabe National Forest · 6.5 mi
Leavitt MeadowsToiyabe National Forest · 6.6 mi
BuckeyeToiyabe National Forest · 13 mi
Honeymoon FlatToiyabe National Forest · 15 mi1. From Highway 395 south in Bridgeport, drive approximately 20 miles.
2. Campground is on right hand side of highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Walker, 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
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
Chris 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 →