Crowley Lake Campground
1Heads up1 fire 41 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $12From, per site
- Sites
- 47All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Crowley Lake Campground offers 47 RV/tent sites, maximum recommended RV length is 30 feet. $12.00 per site. All sites include a fire pit, picnic table and a lantern holder. No hook-up. Potable water is available. Dump station fee is $12.00, no passes accepted. Closest amenities are 2 miles south in Crowley, or 10 miles north in Mammoth Lakes. Keep reading
Recreation
Popular activities include lake and stream fishing, boating, windsurfing, horseback riding, hiking, and wildlife viewing.
Facilities
Crowley Lake Campground offers 47 RV/tent sites, maximum recommended RV length is 30 feet. All sites include a fire pit, picnic table and a lantern holder. No hook-up. Potable water is available. Dump station fee is $10.00, no passes accepted. Closest amenities are 2 miles south in Crowley, or 10 miles north in Mammoth Lakes. This campground offers stunning views of Crowley Lake and the Glass Mountains to the east. To the west is the Sierra Nevada mountains and McGee Mountain and Canyon. Popular activities include lake and stream fishing, boating, windsurfing, horseback riding, hiking, and wildlife viewing. Camping for a period longer than 14 days at any one campground, not to exceed 28 days per calendar year for all Bishop Field Office campgrounds, is prohibited without the written permission from the Field Office Manager. A California Campfire Permit is not required for fires within established fire rings in developed campgrounds. Seasonal fire restrictions may prohibit campfires during periods of high fire danger. Please check the BLM’s website for information on current fire restrictions or call the Bishop Field Office at (760) 872-5000.
Natural Features
This campground offers stunning views of Crowley Lake and the Glass Mountains to the east. To the west is the Sierra Nevada mountains and McGee Mountain and Canyon. Popular activities include lake and stream fishing, boating, windsurfing, horseback riding, hiking, and wildlife viewing.
Nearby Attractions
Mammoth Lakes is approximately 10 miles away.
What the agency tells you
Camping for a period longer than 14 days at any one campground, not to exceed 28 days per calendar year for all Bishop Field Office campgrounds, is prohibited without the written permission from the Field Office Manager. A California Campfire Permit is not required for fires within established fire rings in developed campgrounds. Seasonal fire restrictions may prohibit campfires during periods of high fire danger. Please check the BLM’s website for information on current fire restrictions or call the Bishop Field Office at (760) 872-5000.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 47
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…table and a lantern holder. No hook-up. Potable water is available. Dump station fee is $12.00, no passes…”
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 21 km away
- Patchy color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:21 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
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Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $12 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 15:21 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
47 sites
All 47 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. 47 of the 47 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Crowley Lake | Site #1 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #10 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #11 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #12 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #13 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #14 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #15 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #16 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #17 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #18 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #19 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #2 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #20 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #21 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #22 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #23 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #24 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #25 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #26 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #27 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #28 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #29 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #3 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #30 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #31 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #32 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #33 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #34 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #35 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #36 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #37 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #38 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #39 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #4 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #40 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #41 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #42 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #43 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #44 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #45 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #46 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #47 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #5 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #6 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #7 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #8 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
| Crowley Lake | Site #9 | standard nonelectric | $12 |
25 of 47 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for McGee Creek, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 21°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
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
Crowley Lake 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 →