Dorabelle Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 9 mi
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $48–$95Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6564 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – October 31Open May 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Dorabelle Campground is a popular family camping destination above Shaver Lake. Some sites are shaded by a thick stand of fir, cedar and pine trees, while other sites are more open. This camp is a great base for experiencing the wide variety of recreational activities in the area. Boats can be moored nearby and some sites offer views of the lake. Keep reading
Recreation
Hikers can access 5 trails from the campground: Dinkey Road (.5 miles), Musick Meadow (.75 miles), Peninsula Loop (1 mile), Burr Meadow (1.5 miles) and Osprey Cove (2 miles). Horseback riding is also offered nearby. Popular activities at Shaver Lake include swimming, motorized boating, canoeing, kayaking, water skiing, jet skiing, windsurfing, sailing and fishing. Anglers can fish for kokanee salmon, rainbow trout, brown trout, smallmouth bass, catfish and bluegill.
Facilities
Each site has a dirt parking spur, table, fire ring, and grill. Drinking water and vault toilets are provided.
Natural Features
Surrounded by dense pine forest, Shaver Lake is a popular destination within the High Sierra Ranger District. It sits at an elevation of 5,500 feet and is known for its variety of fish. The Sierra National Forest, located on the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada, is known for its spectacular mountain scenery and abundant natural resources. The terrain includes rolling, oak-covered foothills, heavily forested middle elevation slopes and the starkly beautiful alpine landscape of the High Sierra. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (559) 841-3533.
Nearby Attractions
The picturesque town of Shaver Lake is nearby, offering restaurants and shopping.
Charges & Cancellations
Late Cancellations or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window Individual Campsites: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. Cabins / Lookouts: Customers who cancel a cabin or lookout reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee. Group Facility (including Cabins and Lookouts): Customers who cancel a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee. Group Day Use Area: Customers who cancel a group day-use facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will forfeit the total day-use fee. Changes or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window: Once a reservation date has begun, customers cannot change a reservation using the online system or through the Call Center (see below for early departures). If the location is staffed, on-site personnel may or may not be able to assist with changes or cancellations (check with local staff). No-Shows Overnight and Day-Use Facilities: A no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date (or for day-use facilities, by check-in time the day of arrival). Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date and will hold group day-use facilities until check-in time on the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night’s recreation fee for a campsite or forfeit the entire day-use fee for a day-use facility.
What the agency tells you
No all-terrain or off-highway vehicles allowed in the campground
Two pets per site and leashed at all times.
Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle for single site or one vehicle for single tent camping. Two RV’S with tow vehicle per double site or two vehicles for double tent only camping. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. For current fire conditions or weather closures contact the High Sierra Ranger District, Sierra National Forest (559) 855-5355
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests.
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.
Click here to learn more about the Sierra National Forest
Be bear aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating; always keep a clean camp and do not feed any wild animals.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 65 · 22 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- 59 of 65
- Accessible sites
- 19
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 63 of 65 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…fire ring, and grill. Drinking water and vault toilets are provided. Natural Features Surrounded by dense…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…spur, table, fire ring, and grill. Drinking water and vault toilets are provided. Natural Features…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 64 of the 65 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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $48–$95 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.
“Late Cancellations or Cancellations within the Cut-off Window Individual Campsites: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cabins / Lookouts: Customer…” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
65 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 59 mapped sitesAll 65 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 60 of the 65 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 64 of the 65 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| DORABELLE CAMPGROUND | 063 | tent only nonelectric | $48–$95 | ||||
| DORABELLE CAMPGROUND | 065 | tent only nonelectric | $48–$95 | ||||
| DORABELLE CAMPGROUND | 066 | tent only nonelectric | $48–$95 | ||||
| DORABELLE CAMPGROUND | 068 | tent only nonelectric | $48–$95 | ||||
| New | 001 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 50 ft | 679 ftShaver Lake | 266 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 49 ft | 664 ftShaver Lake | 242 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 003 | tent only nonelectric | 50 ft | 722 ftShaver Lake | 218 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 004 | standard nonelectric | yes | 48 ft | 710 ftShaver Lake | 193 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 005 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 757 ftShaver Lake | 161 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 006 | tent only nonelectric | 53 ft | 709 ft | 140 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 007 | tent only nonelectric | 81 ft | 699 ft | 54 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 81 ft | 685 ft | 28 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 009 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 554 ftShaver Lake | 290 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 010 | type not stated | yes | 605 ftShaver Lake | 280 ft | ||
| New | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 549 ft | 258 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 012 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 572 ft | 210 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 013 | standard nonelectric | yes | 38 ft | 528 ft | 239 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 35 ft | 505 ft | 230 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 35 ft | 507 ft | 208 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 016 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 459 ft | 249 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 017 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 467 ft | 229 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 018 | standard nonelectric | yes | 36 ft | 431 ft | 206 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 019 | standard nonelectric | yes | 36 ft | 433 ft | 170 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 020 | standard nonelectric | yes | 46 ft | 438 ft | 125 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 49 ft | 393 ft | 116 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 022 | tent only nonelectric | 115 ft | 301 ft | 148 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 023 | standard nonelectric | yes | 170 ft | 346 ft | 162 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 97 ft | 438 ft | 18 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 025 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 539 ftShaver Lake | 249 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 58 ft | 567 ft | 237 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 027 | standard nonelectric | yes | 80 ft | 499 ftShaver Lake | 170 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 028 | standard nonelectric | yes | 107 ft | 393 ftShaver Lake | 210 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 029 | standard nonelectric | yes | 44 ft | 292 ftShaver Lake | 275 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 030 | standard nonelectric | yes | 44 ft | 287 ftShaver Lake | 239 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 031 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 301 ftShaver Lake | 198 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 032 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 320 ftShaver Lake | 162 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 033 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 312 ft | 179 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 034 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 216 ft | 264 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 035 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 132 ft | 347 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 036 | tent only nonelectric | 117 ft | 111 ft | 473 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 037 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | under 10 ft | 475 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 038 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 12 ft | 478 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 039 | tent only nonelectric | 74 ft | 76 ft | 408 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 040 | standard nonelectric | yes | 74 ft | 71 ft | 427 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 041 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 62 ft | 176 ft | 331 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 042 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 171 ft | 349 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 043 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 30 ft | 405 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 044 | standard nonelectric | yes | 72 ft | 40 ft | 400 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 045 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 284 ft | 280 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 046 | standard nonelectric | yes | 31 ft | 337 ft | 201 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 047 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 281 ft | 229 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 048 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 337 ft | 163 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 049 | standard nonelectric | yes | 56 ft | 373 ft | 113 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 050 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 414 ft | 66 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 051 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 357 ft | 124 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 052 | standard nonelectric | yes | 40 ft | 344 ft | 277 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 053 | standard nonelectric | yes | 38 ft | 366 ft | 239 ft | $48–$95 |
| New | 054 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 351 ft | 214 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 055 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 406 ft | 192 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 056 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 438 ft | 153 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 057 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 412 ft | 136 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 058 | standard nonelectric | $48–$95 | ||||
| New | 059 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 497 ft | 82 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 060 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 472 ftShaver Lake | 65 ft | $48–$95 | |
| New | 061 | tent only nonelectric | 36 ft | 441 ftShaver Lake | 55 ft | $48–$95 |
25 of 65 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Dinkey CreekSierra National Forest · 9.1 miA Group Group CampgroundSierra National Forest · 9.1 mi
Lower Billy CreekSierra National Forest · 9.8 miFrom Clovis: Take Highway 168 north for 49 miles to the town of Shaver Lake. Turn right on Dorabelle Road and go .5 miles to the campground. Campground registration information is at the campground entry station.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Shaver Lake, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 64°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Dorabelle 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 →