Cottonwood Pass Walk in Campground
1Heads up1 fire 47 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $22From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Located in the Horseshoe Meadow Recreation Area this trailhead campground has 18 walk-in sites suitable for backpackers and hikers to use the night before they are going to hike into Golden Trout Wilderness via the Cottonwood Pass trail. Self-register when you arrive. Sites include food storage boxes, tent pads, tables, fire grates, potable water, and toilet facilities. One night stay limit. Horseshoe Meadow Area Campgrounds Guide (pdf)
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…boxes, tent pads, tables, fire grates, potable water, and toilet facilities. One night stay limit.…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Meadow
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 $22 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
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($22), 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 · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Tuttle Creek CampgroundBishop Field Office · 8.4 miMt. Whitney Trailhead CampgroundInyo National Forest · 10 mi
Whitney PortalInyo National Forest · 10 mi
Lone PineInyo National Forest · 10 mi
Grays MeadowsInyo National Forest · 23 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lone Pine, CA
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
Cottonwood Pass Walk in Campground is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →