Crater Lake
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Season
- June 1 – October 31Open June 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Campground located 7 miles off highway 44. Motor homes and large trailers not recommended due to rough steep road. There are 17 sites at lake, each site has a fire ring and table. Hand pumped water, vault toilets. Fly fishing, canoeing, and float tubing are favorites at Crater Lake. Fall season check out the display of colors our aspen stands contribute to the tranquility of the area. No gas motors on lake.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…fire ring and table. Hand pumped water, vault toilets. Fly fishing, canoeing, and float tubing are…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 9.9 km away
- Peak color
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 $10 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 · 6
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), 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
Christie CampgroundLassen National Forest · 13 mi
Butte LakeLassen Volcanic National Park · 14 mi
Butte Lake GroupLassen Volcanic National Park · 14 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Spaulding, CA
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Crater Lake is in California’s 1st congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Doug LaMalfa for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.