Douglas City Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights read 15:40 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 2423 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Douglas City Campground offers camping opportunities along the Wild and Scenic Trinity River in Trinity County, CA. The campground has 24 sites, flush toilets, hot showers, and easy access to the Trinity River. Campers can enjoy small beaches along the river for swimming, fishing, or paddling. The campground is nearby to many other recreational experiences in Trinity County - lakes, trails, wilderness, whitewater rafting, and more. For information on campground details, fees, opening/closing dates, and making reservations, please visit: Douglas City Campground, Trinity - Recreation. Keep reading
gov Recreation Swimming, fishing, and paddling are all popular activites along the Trinity River immediately adjacent to the campground. A rustic hiking trail can be explored to find additional river access points and connect you to other recreation sites along Steiner Flat Road. Wildlife is abundat along the river, so birding and other wildlife viewing activities are popular!
Facilities
Camp on the edge of the Trinity River in one of 24 tent/trailer campsites. No electric, water, or sewer hookups are available. Potable water, flush toilets, and hot showers are available. Campsites have picnic tables, fire rings, and bear boxes. A small beach is found within the campground. A campground host is generally on site.
Natural Features
Douglas City Campground is nestled in a narrow valley with ponderosa pine, douglas fir, oak, and madrone trees coating the hillsides. The campground is immeidately adjacent to the Wild and Scenic Trinity River, known for its cold, clear water and abudant paddling, swimming, and fishing opprotunities.
Nearby Attractions
Trinity River (Lewiston Lake to Pigeon Point): Class I and II segment popular for fishing, swimming, and paddling. Access map can be found on the BLM website . Trinity River (below Pigeon Point): Class III and IV segment popular for white water rafting. Guided trips availalbe from local vendors. Lewiston and Trinty Lakes: Fishing, boating, and swimming. Weaver Basin trail system: Non-motorized trails near Weaverville, CA that offer great hiking and mountain biking opportunities. Find out more on the Trinity Trail Alliance website . Trinity Alps Wilderness: Access the wilderness area through many nearby trailheads for overnight or day hiking. More information on the Forest Service website . Weaverville, CA: Small town with dining and shopping options. Contact Info For local information, please call (530) 623-4640 or call (530) 224-2100 for general information.
Charges & Cancellations
If you are cancelling completely or arriving later than your reservations start date - please use Recreation.gov webiste or call center to make the modification If you are in the middle of your stay and want to modify your stay length or which site you are in - please use Recreation.gov website or call center to make the modification If you are not going to use your reservation for a night, please consider cancelling or modifying your reservation so that other hopeful campers have the opportunity to reserve the site and enjoy the campground!
What the agency tells you
Please check in with the campground host when you arrive. The host can provide you the code to the shower facility.
Dogs must be kept on leash in the campground.
Campfires are allowed in the established fire rings, when in conformance with BLM Fire Restrictions (click on the Redding Field Office tab). Please get a free CALFire Campfire Permit before arriving by visiting Ready for Wildfire webpage .
Everything else this campground posts · 6
We have lots of wildlife in the campground - please keep you campsite clean and use the bear boxes found in each site to store your food.
The river is cold and fast - life jackets save lives!
If you are making a same day reservation - please bring a copy (screen shot is ok!) of your reservation confirmation to show the camp host.
Quiet hours are from 10:00 PM through 6:00 AM. Please be mindful of others camping around you.
Gas generator usage is prohibited during quiet hours regardless of situation. If you have a medical device that requires power, please consider an electric power bank or battery generator.
Groups of 10 or more need to contact the field office before staying at the campground at (530) 224-2100. This campground is not meant for larger gatherings, and may need to be referred to alternative group sites in the area. Other campers' experiences must be respected.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 84 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 22 of 24 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…County, CA. The campground has 24 sites, flush toilets, hot showers, and easy access to the Trinity River.…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The campground has 24 sites, flush toilets, hot showers, and easy access to the Trinity River.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…water, or sewer hookups are available. Potable water, flush toilets, and hot showers are available.…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
12 of 34 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:40 UTC
recreation.gov lists 23 of the 24 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
OpenBooked
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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, $20 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.
“- If you are cancelling completely or arriving later than your reservations start date - please use Recreation.gov webiste or call center to make the modification - If you are in the middle of your stay and want to modify your stay length or which site you are in - please use Recreation.gov website or call center to…” · this campground’s own 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites
All 24 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. 23 of the 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Site 1 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | $20 | |
| Site 10 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $20 | |
| Site 11 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | $20 | |
| Site 12 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | $20 | |
| Site 13 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | $20 | |
| Site 14 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | $20 | |
| Site 15 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 | |
| Site 16 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 | |
| Site 17 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | $20 | |
| Site 18 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | $20 | |
| Site 19 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | $20 | |
| Site 2 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $20 | |
| Site 20 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | yes | $20 |
| Site 21 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $20 | |
| Site 22 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $20 | |
| Site 23 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $20 | |
| Site 24 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | $20 | |
| Site 3 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | $20 | |
| Site 4 | type not stated | 70 ft | ||
| Site 5 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | $20 | |
| Site 6 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | $20 | |
| Site 7 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | $20 | |
| Site 8 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | $20 | |
| Site 9 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | $20 |