Codorniz Recreation Area Campground
1Heads up1 fire 46 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:19 UTC
- A night
- $20–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6866 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Codorniz Campground on H.V. Eastman Lake is a perfect launchpad for activities like fishing, canoeing, birding and hiking. Tucked in the Sierra Nevada foothills, the area attracts abundant wildlife like bobcats, golden eagles, mountain lions, hawks and wood ducks. Information about the lake's water level can be found under Additional Information. Keep reading
Recreation
Eastman Lake is the first designated Trophy Bass Fishery, by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Both young and old anglers will find fishing on Eastman lake a satisfying challenge. At the campground, visitors can try their hand at disc golf or challenge a group of friends to a game of volleyball. Horseshoe pits are also available for a little friendly competition.
Facilities
A mix of electric and non-electric campsites are available. Fish cleaning stations are near each boat ramp, and showers are on hand as well. Horse camping corrals are available.
Natural Features
The rolling hills around Eastman Lake are surrounded by tall grasses and scattered oak trees, giving way to stunning mountain views. The lake features 1,780 surface acres, fed by the cool waters of the Chowchilla River.
Nearby Attractions
The Sierra National Forest is a short drive to the east of the campground.
What the agency tells you
General store and fuel services are 20 miles away
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Please remember to wear a life jacket when you are in and on the water.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 68 · 4 tent-only, 3 group, 1 cabin
- Hookups
- 33 electric, 65 water, 6 sewer
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Paved pads
- 65 of 68
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 3 of 68 campsite records
- Showers
- Accessible Showers
- ACCESSIBLE SHOWERS on 3 of 68 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 68 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Ranger programs
- Swimming
- Night sky · 989th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
67 of 130 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:19 UTC
recreation.gov lists 66 of the 68 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$30 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:19 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
68 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 66 mapped sitesAll 68 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 68 of the 68 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 63 of the 68 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CODO | 01 | type not stated | 75 ft | 1,326 ft | 1,356 ft | ||||
| CODO | 02 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 55 ft | 1,224 ft | 1,483 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 03 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 55 ft | 1,169 ft | 1,524 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 04 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 199 ft | 954 ft | 1,391 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 05 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 81 ft | 877 ft | 1,669 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 06 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 81 ft | 928 ft | 1,642 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 07 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 34 ft | 1,063 ft | 1,524 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 08 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 34 ft | 1,089 ft | 1,492 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 09 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 88 ft | 556 ft | 1,951 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 10 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 88 ft | 551 ft | 1,974 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 11 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 89 ft | 669 ft | 1,863 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 12 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 89 ft | 670 ft | 1,883 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 13 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 184 ft | 861 ft | 1,785 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 14 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 70 ft | 1,047 ft | 1,699 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 15 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 95 ft | 1,080 ft | 1,613 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 16 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 70 ft | 1,094 ft | 1,705 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 17 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 95 ft | 1,224 ft | 1,618 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 18 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 74 ft | 1,184 ft | 1,712 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 19 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 95 ft | 1,316 ft | 1,571 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 20 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 90 ft | 1,299 ft | 1,619 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 21 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | yes | 74 ft | 1,200 ft | 1,719 ft | $30 |
| CODO | 22 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 90 ft | 1,336 ft | 1,618 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 23 | standard electric | 75 ft | 30 amp | yes | 87 ft | 1,261 ft | 1,778 ft | $30 |
| CODO | 24 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 87 ft | 1,347 ft | 1,722 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 25 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 111 ft | 1,405 ft | 1,747 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 26 | tent only nonelectric | 55 ft | 123 ft | 1,387 ft | 1,927 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 27 | tent only nonelectric | 55 ft | 133 ft | 1,542 ft | 1,807 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 28 | tent only nonelectric | 55 ft | 123 ft | 1,490 ft | 1,940 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 29 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 1,738 ft | 1,870 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 30 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 1,723 ft | 1,713 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 31 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 1,797 ft | 1,783 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 32 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 101 ft | 1,818 ft | 1,643 ft | $20 | |
| CODO | 33 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 1,917 ft | 1,651 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 34 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 1,967 ft | 1,726 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 35 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 2,052 ft | 1,746 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 36 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 41 ft | 2,122 ft | 1,860 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 37 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 41 ft | 2,163 ft | 1,859 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 38 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 2,131 ft | 1,770 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 39 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 115 ft | 2,311 ft | 1,691 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 40 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 2,225 ft | 1,623 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 41 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 2,292 ft | 1,559 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 42 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 157 ft | 2,140 ft | 1,454 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 43 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 134 ft | 1,995 ft | 1,442 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 44 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 131 ft | 2,039 ft | 1,309 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 45 | rv electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 1,903 ft | 1,391 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 46 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 115 ft | 1,947 ft | 1,278 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 47 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 1,829 ft | 1,385 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 48 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 99 ft | 1,835 ft | 1,221 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 49 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 142 ft | 1,739 ft | 1,363 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 50 | tent only nonelectric | 89 ft | 1,711 ft | 1,281 ft | $20 | |||
| CODO | 51 | standard electric | 75 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 1,792 ft | 1,196 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 52 | rv electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 66 ft | 1,701 ft | 1,174 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 53 | rv electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 62 ft | 1,639 ft | 1,141 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 54 | rv electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 1,600 ft | 1,183 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 55 | rv electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 1,546 ft | 1,207 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 56 | rv electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 1,499 ft | 1,237 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 57 | type not stated | 55 ft | 30 amp | 1,440 ft | 1,236 ft | |||
| CODO | 58 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 1,431 ft | 1,371 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 59 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 45 ft | 1,475 ft | 1,338 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 60 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 63 ft | 1,538 ft | 1,306 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 61 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 1,627 ft | 1,287 ft | $30 | |
| CODO | 62 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 90 ft | 1,555 ft | 1,376 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 63 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 96 ft | 1,464 ft | 1,502 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 64 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 96 ft | 1,408 ft | 1,591 ft | $20 | ||
| CODO | 65 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 121 ft | 1,579 ft | 1,423 ft | $20 | ||
| NORB | NGB | group standard area nonelectric | 527 ft | 1,321 ft | 508 ft | ||||
| NORT | NGA | group shelter nonelectric | 448 ft | 1,662 ft | 407 ft | ||||
| SOUT | GAS | group standard nonelectric | 448 ft | 2,108 ft | 473 ft |
25 of 68 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Wildcat Recreation Area Campground0.6 mi
Wildcat Equestrian Area0.6 mi
Hidden View7.4 miWakalumi Campground8.1 miEastman Lake is 30 miles northeast of Madera, 25 miles east of Chowchilla, and 50 miles north of Fresno. From Highway 99, travel east on Avenue 26 then north on Rd 29. Follow signs into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Yosemite Lakes, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 80°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 38°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Codorniz Recreation Area 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 →