Christie Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $28From, per site
- Sites
- 6966 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Christie Campground is located in the Eagle Lake Recreation Area of the Lassen National Forest. This recreation area has five campgrounds, three designated day use areas and a marina on the south shore of Eagle Lake. All these recreation facilities are connected by a 5.2 mile paved hiking/bike trail. The Osprey Overlook, another day use area in the recreation area, can be hiked or driven to for a scenic view of the southern end of Eagle Lake and the surrounding forest basin. The Lassen National Forest offers a variety of lakes, streams and wilderness areas for recreational opportunities. The forest offers miles of trails that are used for hiking, mountain biking, off-highway vehicle riding and in the winter months, snowmobiling. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing for the Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout, a California Heritage Trout, is the primary recreational activity on Eagle Lake, but the 3rd largest natural lake in California (22,000 acres), provides for plenty of room for swimming, kayaking, skiing and all other boating activities by motor or sail. There are no 2-cycle restrictions for outboard boat motors or PWCs.
Facilities
Of the five campgrounds in the recreation area, Christie Campground is located the greatest distance from the marina and boat ramp, about five miles or a 10-minute drive. Due to its location, this campground is the least used and occupied in the recreation area. This distinction has developed a very loyal customer base of RV, trailer and tent campers who want a quiet, spacious, camping experience in this beautiful landscape. Christie Campground’s location offers OHV riders almost direct access to the Forest Service riding trails and roads and is preferred by kayak and personal pontoon fishing enthusiasts. Each site is equipped with a paved parking spur, table and campfire ring/grill. Almost half of the sites feature a pull-through parking spur and nine of these sites are large enough that they have been designated as group sites. An RV Dump Station Facility is conveniently located about two miles away with a $5 dump fee. Forty-seven sites, #1-#25, #27-#30, and #32-#49 are designated reservation sites, the other 22 sites are walk-in sites, available on a first-come, first-served basis. The paved bike path begins in this campground. The Eagle Lake Marina store with gas, propane, fishing and camping supplies, shower and laundry facilities.
Natural Features
Eagle Lake is located where the Sierras meet the Cascades at the southwestern end of the lake, and the Modoc Plateau of the Great Basin at the northeastern end. This unique location offers diverse landscapes, geology, wildlife and vegetation. Christie Campground is located in a mature conifer forest of pines and firs, on the southwestern shoreline of Eagle Lake, at an elevation of 5,100 feet. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 825-3454.
Nearby Attractions
The Lassen National Forest has many other recreational opportunities and the Lassen Volcanic National Park is an easy day’s drive to and from Eagle Lake Recreational Area.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground
Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.
Fire Restrictions: 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.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
Click here for more information on the Lassen National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 69 · 10 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 161st darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 30 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 66 of the 69 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.
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 · 14
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
69 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 66 mapped sitesAll 69 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. 69 of the 69 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| MAHOGONY | 50 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 86 ft | 1,509 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 51 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 76 ft | 1,558 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 52 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 76 ft | 1,498 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 53 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 86 ft | 1,406 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 54 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 58 ft | 1,314 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 55 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 58 ft | 1,299 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 56 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 73 ft | 1,156 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 57 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 106 ft | 1,231 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 58 | group standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 67 ft | 1,201 ft | $50 |
| MAHOGONY | 59 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 67 ft | 1,244 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 60 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 82 ft | 1,254 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 61 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 90 ft | 1,350 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 62 | group standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 76 ft | 1,355 ft | $50 |
| MAHOGONY | 63 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 76 ft | 1,430 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 64 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 80 ft | 1,446 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 65 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 80 ft | 1,520 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 66 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 90 ft | 1,561 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 67 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 90 ft | 1,634 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 68 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 95 ft | 1,614 ft | $28 |
| MAHOGONY | 69 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 95 ft | 1,699 ft | $28 |
| MANAGEMENT | 26 | type not stated | 60 ft | 1,432 ft | $20 | |
| MANAGEMENT | 31 | type not stated | 40 ft | 1,469 ft | $20 | |
| MANZANITA | 27 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 1,545 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 28 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 91 ft | 1,630 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 29 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 63 ft | 1,479 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 30 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 63 ft | 1,416 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 32 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 55 ft | 1,405 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 33 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 55 ft | 1,358 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 34 | type not stated | 50 ft | 1,186 ft | $20 | |
| MANZANITA | 35 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 154 ft | 1,196 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 36 | group standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 94 ft | 1,051 ft | $50 |
| MANZANITA | 37 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 92 ft | 1,021 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 38 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 84 ft | 993 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 39 | group standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 84 ft | 916 ft | $50 |
| MANZANITA | 40 | group standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 93 ft | 1,027 ft | $50 |
| MANZANITA | 41 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 93 ft | 1,075 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 42 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 73 ft | 1,158 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 43 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 85 ft | 1,180 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 44 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 63 ft | 1,255 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 45 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 1,313 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 46 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 76 ft | 1,281 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 47 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 86 ft | 1,429 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 48 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 97 ft | 1,387 ft | $28 |
| MANZANITA | 49 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 97 ft | 1,475 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 01 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 1,369 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 02 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 91 ft | 1,445 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 03 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 100 ft | 1,365 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 04 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 100 ft | 1,280 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 05 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 99 ft | 1,241 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 06 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 1,158 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 07 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 76 ft | 1,146 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 08 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 49 ft | 1,073 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 09 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 84 ft | 1,046 ft | $50 |
| TROY | 10 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 49 ft | 1,033 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 11 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 84 ft | 965 ft | $50 |
| TROY | 12 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 86 ft | 962 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 13 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 129 ft | 815 ft | $50 |
| TROY | 14 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 67 ft | 907 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 15 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 67 ft | 842 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 16 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 47 ft | 906 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 17 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 47 ft | 867 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 18 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 103 ft | 909 ft | $50 |
| TROY | 19 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 94 ft | 1,016 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 20 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 94 ft | 1,033 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 21 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 101 ft | 1,136 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 22 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 101 ft | 1,175 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 23 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 91 ft | 1,255 ft | $28 |
| TROY | 24 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 85 ft | 1,302 ft | $50 |
| TROY | 25 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 85 ft | 1,384 ft | $28 |
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 69 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Merrill CampgroundLassen National Forest · 1.9 mi
Eagle CampgroundLassen National Forest · 3.2 mi
West Eagle CampgroundLassen National Forest · 3.3 mi
Aspen Grove Campground (CA)Lassen National Forest · 3.5 miGoumazLassen National Forest · 11 miCrater LakeLassen National Forest · 13 miFrom Susanville, California, take Highway 36 west for 2 miles to County Road A-1. Turn north and continue 14 miles to the Eagle Lake Recreation Area. Continue past Gallatin Road, the first highway you will come to in the lake basin, and follow the signs to Christie Campground. Located on County Road A-1, 2 miles north of Merrill Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Spaulding, CA
Typical weather
Typical May night 40°F, day 69°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 40°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Christie Campground is in California’s 1st congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Doug LaMalfa for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.