U.S. Forest Service · Sand To Snow National Monument · CA
Coon Creek Cabin Group Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 16 mi
Wildfire
2026 Training fire · 16 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Powerline fire · 25 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Mtz/Bdc/83A fire · 25 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 15, 2026
Wildfire
Orange 2 fire · 27 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 15, 2026
Wildfire
Juniper fire · 31 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 15, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
8,100 ftElevation
2.3 miWater · an unnamed pond
4.2 miSE of Big Bear City, CA
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 1069th darkest of 1,201 in CA
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This group campground is located in a pine forest within the Sand to Snow National Monument. The camping area can accommodate a maximum of 25 persons and 10 vehicles. There are 3 historic cabins on the grounds (cabins have walls/roof, but no doors/windows. Amenities include picnic tables, trash cans, 1 group fire ring and 1 vault toilet. Firewood is available at Heart Bar Family Campground. When driving Forest Service fire/dirt roads, caution should be taken for uneven road surfaces, rocks and dips, high clearance vehicles are recommended.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…trash cans, 1 group fire ring and 1 vault toilet. Firewood is available at Heart Bar Family…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Source: Stated in the agency description
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Group $127 per night, Holiday $137 per night.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Coon Creek Group CampgroundSan Bernardino National Forest · 3.5 mi
Heart Bar Equestrian Group CampgroundSan Bernardino National Forest · 3.7 mi
Wild Horse Equestrian FamilySan Bernardino National Forest · 4.1 mi
SkylineSan Bernardino National Forest · 4.2 mi
Heart Bar CampgroundSan Bernardino National Forest · 4.4 mi
Heart Bar EquestrianSan Bernardino National Forest · 4.4 mi
Coon Creek Group CampgroundSan Bernardino National Forest · 3.5 miHeart Bar Equestrian Group CampgroundSan Bernardino National Forest · 3.7 miWild Horse Equestrian FamilySan Bernardino National Forest · 4.1 miSkylineSan Bernardino National Forest · 4.2 miHeart Bar CampgroundSan Bernardino National Forest · 4.4 miHeart Bar EquestrianSan Bernardino National Forest · 4.4 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight40°Partly Cloudy1% rain
Saturday52°Partly Sunny5% rain
Saturday Night39°Mostly Cloudy5% rain
Sunday53°Mostly Sunny3% rain
NWS forecast for Big Bear City, CA
Source: National Weather Service, SGX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 3, 2026
Who answers for this land
Coon Creek Cabin Group Campground is in California’s 23rd congressional district. Its representative, Jay Obernolte (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.