Cooper Gulch Campground
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $27From, per site
- Sites
- 65 on recreation.gov
- Season
- April 1 – October 31Open April 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located on the shores of Lewiston Lake, approximately 4 miles north of Lewiston on County Road 105, and 17 miles from Weaverville. This campground is on the water's edge and is a favorite for fisherman, and for launching kayaks or canoes. Keep reading
Recreation
The area offers excellent opportunities for fishing, kayaking, hiking and wildlife viewing. Pine Cove boat ramp is within 4 miles, and Fairview launching area on Trinity Lake is 9 miles north. Motorized boats are limited to ten miles per hour. Rainbow trout are abundant, and brown and brook trout are common. This is a good lake for a float tube and excellent fly fishing. The area offers wonderful wildlife viewing opportunities.
Facilities
There are five paved campsites, furnished with a table and fire ring. The Cooper Gulch day use area has five parking spaces for people to fish and/or to hike on the Baker Gulch Trail.
Natural Features
The campsites are tucked into a mixed forest of conifer and deciduous trees, surrounded by abundant wildflowers. Every site offers a view of Lewiston Lake. Lewiston Lake is about 5 miles long, about 70 feet deep, and sits at an elevation of 1,902 feet in elevation. It is a favorite among anglers and paddlers.
Nearby Attractions
The campground is located 3 miles from the historic town of Lewiston, California.
What the agency tells you
There is a $12 per day use fee at both Pine Cove and Fairview boat ramps.
Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.
Lewiston Lake offers annual boat launch passes.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Learn more about Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out time 2 P.M.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 6
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 16 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 6
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Boating
- Night sky · 489th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:53 UTC
recreation.gov lists 5 of the 6 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 · 26
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $27 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:53 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
6 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 5 mapped sitesAll 6 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. 6 of the 6 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| COOPER GULCH CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 19 ft | 202 ft | $27 |
| COOPER GULCH CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 25 ft | 195 ft | $27 |
| COOPER GULCH CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 28 ft | 178 ft | $27 |
| COOPER GULCH CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 25 ft | 186 ft | $27 |
| COOPER GULCH CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | yes | 19 ft | 203 ft | $27 |
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 16 ft | yes | $24 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Mary Smith CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.1 miTunnel Rock CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.3 mi
Ackerman CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.2 mi
East Weaver Group CampgroundTrinity National Forest · 6.4 miTannery Gulch CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 6.5 mi
TanneryWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 6.7 miFrom Weaverville, take Hwy 3 north for 7 miles. Turn right on Rush Creek Road for 9 miles. Turn left on Trinity Dam Blvd for 2.5 miles. Then right on Cooper Gulch exit.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lewiston, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 76°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical April night 38°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
Cooper Gulch 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 →