Clark Springs Campground
1Heads up1 fire 35 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $21From, per site
- 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
Located 17 miles from Weaverville, north on Hwy 3. This campground has 20 campsites with a table and a fireplace and most campsites have bear -proof food lockers. The campground is a single loop through cedar and other deciduous trees. There are four secluded walk-in tent sites next to a babbling brook. The campground accommodates mostly tent campers but has three spurs for trailers. While the campground tends to be rugged, the adjacent boat ramp and swimming area at Trinity Lake are attractive. Directly adjacent to the Clark Springs picnic area, swim beach and boat ramp.
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $21 with nothing added. 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 · 5
What you actually pay
“$21 per day per site, $8 per day per extra vehicle” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($21), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 6
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
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the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Weaverville, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 76°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 39°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 Springs Campground is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →