Dekkas Rock
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Dekkas Rock Campground provides scenic views of the mountainous shoreline from the McCloud Arm of Lake Shasta. This group campground offers sites adjacent to the lake and is open for reservations year-round. Keep reading
Recreation
Hikers can access the trailhead for the 1-mile Hirz Bay Trail at the camp. This trail is for hikers only. The Hirz Bay public boat ramp is nearby and offers access for both motorized and non-motorized boats. Lake Shasta offers excellent fishing for trout, catfish, Chinook salmon, crappie, bluegill, white sturgeon, brown bullhead and bass. Water skiing is also a popular pastime.
Facilities
The group camp will accommodate up to 60 people. Sites are adjacent to the water, but lake levels drop as the summer progresses. The facility provides 8 large tables, 2 large pedestal grills, 1 large family barbecue grill, 2 campfire rings and 4 unpaved parking spurs. An additional unpaved parking lot with 8 spaces is provided for boat trailers and overflow use. Drinking water and vault toilets are available. Bear-proof food lockers are provided.
Natural Features
Shasta-Trinity is the largest national forest in California with a diverse landscape encompassing five wilderness areas, hundreds of mountain lakes and 6,278 miles of streams and rivers. Lake Shasta sits at an elevation of 1,067 feet, with 365 miles of shoreline punctuated by steep mountains blanketed in manzanita and evergreens. A snow-capped Mount Shasta, the second-tallest mountain in the Cascade Range, looms in the distance.
Nearby Attractions
Lake Shasta Caverns are also located on the McCloud Arm of Shasta Lake in an area known as the Grey Rocks. Tours are given daily at this privately owned facility. The nearby Hirz Mountain Lookout offers panoramic views of Mt. Shasta, Mt. Lassen and the surrounding area at an elevation of 3,500 feet.
What the agency tells you
Group camp reservations must contact the Shasta Recreation Company office at least 1 week prior to arrival for combination code to access your campground; Failure to follow these instructions can result in being locked out of the facility
Average maximum trailer size is 16 feet
Poison oak is abundant throughout the forest
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Due to bears in the area, all food must be kept in approved containers
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Check In Check in time is 3pm. Check out time is 12pm
No Amplified Sound!
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and overflow use. Drinking water and vault toilets are available. Bear-proof food lockers are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…for boat trailers and overflow use. Drinking water and vault toilets are available. Bear-proof food…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Water sports
- Night sky · 530th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
Something open on 19 of the next 26 bookable nightsread 16:07 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBookedNot reservable
The one site on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 26. read 16:07 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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What you actually pay
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 16:07 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA DEKKAS ROCK | GS1 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 133 ft | $170 |
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 agency’s directions
Where it is
Hirz CabinWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.1 mi
Hirz BayWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.0 mi
Hirz Bay Group 1Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.0 mi
Hirz Bay Group 2Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.0 mi
Moore CreekWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.2 mi
Ellery CreekWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.8 miExit I-5 at Gilman Road/Salt Creek Road. Southbound traffic: exit and turn left onto Salt Creek Road, second left is Gilman Road. Northbound traffic: turn right onto Gilman Road. Follow Gilman Road for 10 miles east to Dekkas Rock Group.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lakehead, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Dekkas Rock 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.