Dillon Creek Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 37 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 2722 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Open mid-May through mid-October. Campsite List calendar starts at the next available reservation dates. Dillon Creek Campground sits along its namesake creek in the lush forests of northern California. Visitors enjoy a variety of water sports on the nearby Klamath River. Keep reading
Recreation
The Klamath and Salmon Rivers offer excellent fishing, swimming and whitewater rafting opportunities. Fishing for salmon and steelhead during the fall and early winter months is considered the finest in California. Hunting is also a popular pastime, with game including blacktail deer, black bear, grouse and quail.
Facilities
This campground has 21 single-family campsites, all equipped with picnic tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets are provided. A host may be on-site, and roads throughout the campground are paved. Call 530-627-3291 for current drinking water availability.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a forest of mixed hardwoods and conifers at an elevation of 800 feet. The Klamath River, a popular site for salmon fishing, runs alongside the site. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 627-3291.
What the agency tells you
No running water
There are no electric, water or sewer hookups
A per-day, per-vehicle fee applies to extra vehicles
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Sites may be available on a first-come, first-served basis
Click here to learn more about the Six Rivers National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying or collecting your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets are provided. A host may be on-site, and roads…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are paved. Call 530-627-3291 for current drinking water availability. Natural Features The campground is…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 33rd darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 22 of the 27 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
27 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 27 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. 27 of the 27 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| DILLON CREEK | 001 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK | 002_NEW | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 180 ft | 252 ft | $10 |
| DILLON CREEK | 003 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK | 004_NEW | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 180 ft | 297 ft | $10 |
| DILLON CREEK | 005 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK | 006 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK | 007 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK | 008 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK | 009_NEW | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 145 ft | 319 ft | $10 |
| DILLON CREEK | 010 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK | 011 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK | 012 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK | 013_NEW | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 122 ft | 284 ft | $10 |
| DILLON CREEK | 014_NEW | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 122 ft | 227 ft | $10 |
| DILLON CREEK | 015 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK | 016 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 73 ft | 230 ft | $10 |
| DILLON CREEK | 017 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK | 018 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 123 ft | 103 ft | $10 |
| DILLON CREEK | 019 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 168 ft | 116 ft | $10 |
| DILLON CREEK | 020 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 144 ft | 133 ft | $10 |
| DILLON CREEK | 021 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 73 ft | 221 ft | $10 |
| DILLON CREEK CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |||
| DILLON CREEK CAMPGROUND | NON SITE SPECIFIC-RESERVABLE | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | $10 |
25 of 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Oak Bottom CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 14 mi
Curly Jack CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 17 mi
Pearch Creek CampgroundSix Rivers National Forest · 18 mi
Bear Basin Lookout and CabinSmith River National Recreation Area · 19 miFrom State Route 299 in Willow Creek, take State Route 96 north for 60.2 miles. The campground will be on the left side.
From Interstate 5 in northern California, take State Route 96 southwest, past Happy Camp, for 85.7 miles. The campground will be on the right side.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Happy Camp, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 37°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
Dillon Creek Campground 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.