Deanes Valley Family Cg (CA) Plumas Nf
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 117 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located in a mixed connifer forest, this campground offers solitude and easy access to the backcountry trails on the Plumas National Forest. All 8 campsites are first come/ first serve. Keep reading
Recreation
Camping, OHV and motor routes are accessed from the campground.
Facilities
Each campsite as a fire ring, food storage box, and picnic table One vault toilet is located on site Bring your own water, there is no potable water available Take your trash home with you, there are no trash facilities You must provide your own firewood Natural Features Cooler temps from the hot summer sun can be accomplished due to the dense forest surrounding the campground. The South fork of Rock Creek also flows nearby. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 283-0555.
What the agency tells you
Did you know... that your campground fees come directly back to the Plumas National Forest? Fees Pay for: - Toilet paper - Maintaining and pumping vault toilets - Annual maintenance - Staff costs for site maintenance - Information signs and kiosks - Campground upgrades: bear storage containers, picnic tables, and fire rings
Paying for a site $15 is the standard daily rate - Two ways to pay: - Cash or check: - Use and fill out the provided fee envelope located at the information board in the middle of the campground - Tear off the envelope tab and place it on your site post - Put the envelope in the fee tube - Scan the QRcode - Load the RECREATION.gov app to your smart device before you get to the campsite - Scan the QRcode at the campsite and complete the registration on the app (this works when your phone is offline) - Use a fee envelope and fill out the tab to place it on your site post - IMPORTANT: This method is only good for one day. Each day you stay yo
Water is not provided at this campground
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Trash services are not provided. Pack out all of your trash!!!
14 days is the stay limit in ALL Plumas National Forest Campgrounds
This campground is managed by the Mount Hough Ranger Station 39696 Hwy 70, Quincy, CA 95971 530-283-0555
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 7 of 7 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…One vault toilet is located on site Bring your own water, there is no potable water available Take your…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:33 UTC
recreation.gov lists 7 of the 11 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
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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 15:33 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · the site map
All 11 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. 7 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Deanes Valley | 01 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Deanes Valley | 02 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Deanes Valley | 03 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Deanes Valley | 04 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Deanes Valley | 05 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Deanes Valley | 06 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Deanes Valley | 07 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | ||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | type not stated | ||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 4 | type not stated | ||
| Scan and Pay | Standard | type not stated | 413 ft |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
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 Meadow Valley, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 69°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 25°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
Deanes Valley Family Cg (CA) Plumas Nf 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 →