Eagle Creek (CA)
Reservable everywhere but bookable nowhere.Ask the agency →
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 18None on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 21 – October 31Open May 21 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Eagle Creek Campground is located on Trinity River and Eagle Creek, it has 17 single sites with an average back in around 16ft. This campground has vault restrooms and no water. There are picnic tables and fire rings with grills on top located at each site. The road is rough and it is a more primitive campground. This Campground is on a First Come - First Serve Basis, vistors are required to physically be at the campground to purchase and claim a site. You must also occupy the area the day you pay for it, no advance payments. We encourage our visitors to download the recreation.gov app to take advantage of the Scan & Pay Option. There is also a Iron Ranger on site that you can pay with cash or check. Keep reading
Recreation
Trinity offers wholesome memories, perfect for families, adventures and everything in-between. There are multiple hiking trails and rivers making it the perfect destination for exploration. Popular activities on Trinity Lake include boating, fishing, sailing and water skiing. Different Species of fish in Trinity Lake include smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, rainbow trout, catfish, kokanee salmon, Chinook salmon. Bass fishing – dredger piles near the head of the lake is the most promising locations. Fishing near the shoreline during spring (March-June) is best. Trout fishing – found year-round throughout the lake but best during spring where they can be found nearly anywhere. During the summer months trout tend to stay near the mouths of the major tributaries.
Facilities
A public boat ramp is located approximately 20 miles away at Bowerman (dependent on water level). To view current ramp information visit our website: Ramp Information Natural Features Trinity Lake is one of the largest reservoirs in California, it has an elevation around 2,387' with around 145 miles of shoreline. Trinity is made up of 3 arms: Papose, Buckeye and Stuart Fork Arm. The Water Volume of Trinity Lake: 2,447,650 acre-ft. There are a variety of coves and arms perfect for fishing or a quiet picnic on the water. The main body of the lake has plenty of room for water sports like wakeboarding or tubing.
Nearby Attractions
There are several attractions in the area for a list view our website: Local Attractions
What the agency tells you
Poison oak is abundant throughout the forest
If applicable, the holder of the Golden Pass must be present; Must bring card to the area
Wildlife is frequent in the area; all food must be kept in approved containers: Wildlife Info
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit: Firewood Information
Only one vehicle is included in the cost of single sites and two vehicles in double sites;Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.
Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out time 2 P.M.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…back in around 16ft. This campground has vault restrooms and no water. There are picnic tables and fire…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…This campground has vault restrooms and no water. There are picnic tables and fire rings with grills…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Stargazing
- Swimming
- Tubing
Nothing on the booking system
recreation.gov lists none of the 18 campsites the agency files here. Whatever these sites are, a reservation isn’t how you get 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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
18 sites
All 18 sites
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Trinity River (CA)Shasta National Forest · 3.6 miGoldfield Campground6.8 miScott Mountain CampgroundShasta National Forest · 8.5 miGumboot CampgroundShasta National Forest · 9.3 miKangaroo Lake CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 13 miEagle Creek Campground is located 41 miles north of Weaverville
Going north on Hwy 3 follow for about 40 miles. Turn left onto Eagle Creek Rd about 1 mile campground is on the left.
Campground can also be mapped via google maps.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Coffee Creek, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 70°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 36°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
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
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
Eagle Creek (CA) is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record marks Eagle Creek (CA) reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its campsites. The draft asks why, and what it would take to fix it.
- The member who votes the moneyJared HuffmanU.S. Representative · California’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAdam B. SchiffU.S. Senator · California
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAlex PadillaU.S. Senator · California
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Eagle Creek (CA) is reservable and not bookable
Dear Jared Huffman, I’m a constituent in California’s 2nd district. Eagle Creek (CA), Shasta National Forest, California is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 18 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Eagle Creek (CA) on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Eagle Creek (CA) (Shasta National Forest, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Eagle Creek (CA) is reservable and not bookable
Dear Adam B. Schiff, I’m a constituent in California. Eagle Creek (CA), Shasta National Forest, California is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 18 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Eagle Creek (CA) on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Eagle Creek (CA) (Shasta National Forest, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Eagle Creek (CA) is reservable and not bookable
Dear Alex Padilla, I’m a constituent in California. Eagle Creek (CA), Shasta National Forest, California is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 18 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Eagle Creek (CA) on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Eagle Creek (CA) (Shasta National Forest, California) via campanac.com