Deadman Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Season
- April 1 – October 31Open April 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Deadman Campground is situated along the banks of the Stanislaus River, one mile from Highway 108 on the Kennedy Meadow Road. It is about 29 miles east of the Summit Ranger Station. There are a total of 17 camping sites; two walk-in sites. The main road is paved and parking pads are dirt-surfaced. Restrooms are vault toilets. Water is piped to hydrants serving multiple sites. A fee is charged for extra vehicle parking.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…pads are dirt-surfaced. Restrooms are vault toilets. Water is piped to hydrants serving multiple sites.…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Meadow
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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 · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Dardanelle CampgroundStanislaus National Forest · 4.9 mi
Brightman Flat CampgroundStanislaus National Forest · 5.9 miClark Fork CampgroundStanislaus National Forest · 6.1 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Strawberry, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 24°F, day 67°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 24°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 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
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
Deadman Campground is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →