Eagle Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $28–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 5048 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Eagle Campground is located in the Eagle Lake Recreation Area of the Lassen National Forest. This recreation area has five campgrounds, three designated day use areas and a marina on the south shore of Eagle Lake. All of these recreation facilities are connected by a 5.2 mile paved hiking/bike trail. The Osprey Overlook, another day use area in the recreation area, can be hiked or driven to for a scenic view of the southern end of Eagle Lake and the surrounding forest basin. The Lassen National Forest offers a variety of lakes, streams and wilderness areas for recreational opportunities. The forest offers miles of trails that are used for hiking, mountain biking, off-highway vehicle riding and in the winter months, snowmobiling. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing for the Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout, a California Heritage Trout, is the primary recreational activity on Eagle Lake, but the 3rd largest natural lake in California (22,000 acres), provides for plenty of room for swimming, kayaking, skiing and all other boating activities by motor or sail. There are no 2-cycle restrictions for outboard boat motors or PWCs.
Facilities
Within Eagle Lake Recreation Area, Eagle Campground is the closest campground to the marina/boat launch that offers RV/trailer camping sites. Eagle’s other distinction is its location in an exceptional stand of tall pines. There are 30 reservation sites, 20 walk-in sites, two small group sites and two sites that have electric and water hook-ups. Each site is equipped with a paved parking spur (except #50/gravel), table and campfire ring/grill. An RV Dump Station Facility is conveniently located about 2.5 miles away with a dump fee. The paved bike path is connected to this campground. The Eagle Lake Marina store with gas, propane, fishing and camping supplies, shower and laundry facilities and the boat launch is located about one mile from the campground.
Natural Features
Eagle Lake is located where the Sierras meet the Cascades at the southwestern end of the lake, and the Modoc Plateau of the Great Basin at the northeastern end. This unique location offers diverse landscapes, geology, wildlife and vegetation. Eagle Campground is located in a mature conifer forest of pines and firs, on the southern shoreline of Eagle Lake, at an elevation of 5,100 feet. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 825-3454.
Nearby Attractions
The Lassen National Forest has many other recreational opportunities and the Lassen Volcanic National Park is an easy day’s drive to and from Eagle Lake Recreational Area.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground
Two pets per site and leashed at all times.
Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent site. 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 · 4
Fire Restrictions: 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.
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. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
Click here for more information on the Lassen National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 50 · 2 group
- Hookups
- 2 electric, 2 water, 1 sewer
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 46 of 50
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 244th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 35 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:08 UTC
recreation.gov lists 48 of the 50 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $28–$50 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:08 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
51 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 48 mapped sitesAll 51 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 50 of the 51 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.
| AREA EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 042 | type not stated | 2,685 ft | $33.97 | ||||
| AREA EAGLE CAMPGROUND | 043 | type not stated | 2,554 ft | $33.97 | ||||
| AREA EAGLE CAMPGROUND | XXX | unnamed record | 35 ft | $33.97 | ||||
| EAGL | 011 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 126 ft | 2,064 ft | $50 | ||
| EAGL | 012 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 126 ft | 1,959 ft | $50 | ||
| SNGL | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 147 ft | 1,787 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 147 ft | 1,813 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 172 ft | 1,941 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 004 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 104 ft | 1,961 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 98 ft | 2,052 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 106 ft | 1,996 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 104 ft | 2,100 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 008 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 83 ft | 2,074 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 2,156 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 2,191 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 95 ft | 2,216 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 95 ft | 2,273 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 77 ft | 2,338 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 51 ft | 2,500 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 156 ft | 2,656 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 018 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 103 ft | 2,722 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 103 ft | 2,799 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 020 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 116 ft | 2,604 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 120 ft | 2,713 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 022 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 116 ft | 2,623 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 197 ft | 2,380 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 102 ft | 2,357 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 025 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 2,364 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 026 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | yes | 51 ft | 2,460 ft | $50 |
| SNGL | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 2,360 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 028 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 147 ft | 2,422 ft | $50 |
| SNGL | 029 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 111 ft | 2,552 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 2,452 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 031 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 94 ft | 2,502 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 032 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 88 ft | 2,396 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 033 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 2,292 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 034 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 2,216 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 2,163 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 036 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 2,253 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 037 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 2,239 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 038 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 2,138 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 039 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 2,178 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 040 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 2,112 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 041 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 210 ft | 2,697 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 044 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 130 ft | 2,482 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 045 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 2,444 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 046 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 73 ft | 2,362 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 047 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 2,353 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 048 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 2,293 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 049 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 83 ft | 2,272 ft | $28 | ||
| SNGL | 050 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 2,346 ft | $28 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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.
25 of 51 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
West Eagle CampgroundLassen National Forest · 0.1 mi
Aspen Grove Campground (CA)Lassen National Forest · 0.7 mi
Merrill CampgroundLassen National Forest · 1.5 mi
Christie CampgroundLassen National Forest · 3.2 miGoumazLassen National Forest · 10 miRoxie Peconom CampgroundLassen National Forest · 13 miFrom Susanville, California, take Highway 36 west for 2 miles to County Road A-1. Turn north and continue 14 miles to the Eagle Lake Recreation Area. Turn right on Gallatin Road, the first highway you will come to in the lake basin, and follow the signs to Eagle Campground. Located on Gallatin Road, Eagle Campground is located approximately 1 mile from the intersection.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Spaulding, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Eagle 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.