Dixie Glade Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 28 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $5From, per site
- Sites
- 107 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Once on-site, you are able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. In order to utilize Scan & Pay on site, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Keep reading
Recreation
Whether it be a overnight camping or an extended trail ride by horseback, the Mendocino National Forest will provide you with unique experience. Overnight camping by horseback is a great way to introduce young and old alike to the pleasures of the great outdoors.
Facilities
Small, quiet campground with 7 campsites and 1 day use/picnic site available. Facilities include tables, stoves, fire rings. Please pack out garbage. No water. Suitable for horse camping. Hitching posts and corrals are on site. Accommodates up to 30 foot trailers.
Natural Features
Vegetation is chaparral amidst ponderosa pine, douglas fir, and oaks. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 963-3128.
Nearby Attractions
A short trail (0.8 mile) connects to the Deafy Glade Trail providing access to the Snow Mountain Wilderness.
What the agency tells you
Leave No Trace: Pack out all trash garbage, including food scraps.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
Keeping horses in non-designated Forest campgrounds and picnic grounds is prohibited.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…fire rings. Please pack out garbage. No water. Suitable for horse camping. Hitching posts and…”
Around the campground
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Horse Camping
- Horseback riding
- Picnicking
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 7 of the 10 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.
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, $5 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
10 sites · the site map
All 10 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 10 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.
| Dixie Glade | 1 | standard nonelectric | 1,327 ft | $5 |
| Dixie Glade | 2 | standard nonelectric | $5 | |
| Dixie Glade | 3 | standard nonelectric | $5 | |
| Dixie Glade | 4 | standard nonelectric | $5 | |
| Dixie Glade | 5 | standard nonelectric | $5 | |
| Dixie Glade | 6 | standard nonelectric | $5 | |
| Dixie Glade | 7 | standard nonelectric | $5 | |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | ||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | type not stated | ||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 4 | type not stated |
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 · the phone number
Where it is
Mill Valley CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 1.2 mi
Letts Lake CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 2.3 mi
Mill Creek - Mendocino National ForestMendocino National Forest · 3.0 miMill Creek CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 3.0 mi
Gray Pine Group CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 3.0 mi
FoutsMendocino National Forest · 3.2 miLocated 14 miles west of Stonyford on Fouts Springs Road / M10.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Stonyford, CA
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Dixie Glade 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.