Clark Fork Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Season
- May 1 – October 31Open May 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Clark Fork Campground is situated along the banks of the Clark Fork of the Stanislaus River, five miles from the junction of Clark Fork Road and Highway 108. It is about 25 miles east of the Summit Ranger Station. There are two loops in the campground: A-Loop and B-Loop. Both loops have paved roads and parking pads. A-Loop has 28 sites with a table and a campfire ring at each site. Three of the sites are double sites. The restrooms are vault toilets. Water is available at hydrants serving several sites. A-loop is the first to open and last to close during the camping season. B-Loop has 60 sites, six are double sites. There are flush toilets in B-Loop. Three sites near the first restroom are fully accessible. There is no fee for parking extra cars in the campground. An RV dump station is located near the entrance road to Clark Fork Campground; the fee for the dump station is $6.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…are double sites. The restrooms are vault toilets. Water is available at hydrants serving several… / …sites, six are double sites. There are flush toilets in B-Loop. Three sites near the first restroom are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…sites. The restrooms are vault toilets. Water is available at hydrants serving several sites. A-loop is the…”
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
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Dardanelle CampgroundStanislaus National Forest · 4.1 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bear Valley, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 70°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 36°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
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
Clark Fork Campground 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 →