East Fork Campground – Six Rivers NF (CA)
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- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
East Fork Group site is nestled along the East Fork of Willow creek in northern California's vast Six Rivers National Forest. The campground sits under a canopy of Big Leaf Maple, Douglas Fir and Port Orford Cedar, less than 5 miles from the small mountain town of Willow Creek, known as the Bigfoot capital of the world. Fishing, swimming and whitewater rafting are all close by in the popular Trinity River. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, swimming and whitewater rafting are all available in the Trinity River. The area also provides opportunities for biking, hiking and horseback activities, as well as fishing for migratory salmon and steelhead trout. You could always head out in search of the elusive Bigfoot on the many Forest roads in the area. Stop by the Lower Trinity Ranger Districts office at 50 Hwy 96 in Willow Creek and pick up a Six Rivers Forest map and pick up some local knowledge from the front desk staff.
Facilities
East Fork Group Site has vault style toilets available, picnic tables and fire rings. There is no water available in the campground so please bring plenty of drinking and cooking water.
Natural Features
The campground is along a small creek that is great for wading and and in a few spots swimming. It sits at a 680-foot elevation and provides several shady campsites about four miles west of the Trinity River. A forest of harwoods, Big Leaf Maple and conifers covers the campground, and stands of oak woodland dot the landscape, providing habitat for eight threatened and endangered species, including the bald eagle and the peregrine falcon. The Six Rivers National Forest lies east of Eureka in northwestern California, stretching southward from the Oregon border for about 140 miles. U.S. 101, the famed "Redwood Highway," parallels the inland Forest along the coastline. The Forest is just east of the Redwood National Park. From Willow Creek, turn north on highway 96 and drive the Bigfoot Highway up through the Hoopa Indian Reservation to the Klamath river corridor in Weitchpec where the Trinity river flows into the Klanmth river and then on down to the Pacific ocean.a Nearby Attractions In the nearby town of Willow Creek stop by and visit the Bigfoot museum. If you're around the weekend of Labor day you can stop at the Veterans Park and enjoy their Bigfoot Daze celebration, watch the parade then go check out some local vendors at the park. If you're interested in learning about some of the local tribes, drive into Hoopa and check out Hoopa Tribal Museum. 40 miles west there are many attractions along the Pacific Coast, from ocean fishing, walking along it's many beaches or perhaps hunting the beautiful agates in a few local hotspots. Oh, and don't foget about the majestic California Redwoods, Once you hit highway 101 you can go either north or south and see some of the coasts many wonders.
What the agency tells you
The group site is all the way through the campground at the end. Due to very limited turnaround tent camping is suggested, no trailers, no RVs over 25 ft.
No water, electrical or sewer hook ups available.
Make sure to bring plenty of drinking and cooking water.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Cell service is spotty throughout the campground.
Maximum amount of peope is 25.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets · Portable Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records / PORTABLE TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…available, picnic tables and fire rings. There is no water available in the campground so please bring plenty…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Beach, Coast
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What you actually pay
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 →
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The sites
1 sites
All 1 sites
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Boise CreekSix Rivers National Forest · 3.7 miBurnt Ranch CampgroundTrinity National Forest · 13 miDenny CampgroundTrinity National Forest · 17 miSlide Creek CampgroundTrinity National Forest · 19 miBig Slide CampgroundTrinity National Forest · 20 mi
Hayden Flat Group CampgroundTrinity National Forest · 21 miApproximately 32 miles east of Arcata and approximatley 105 miles west of Redding on Hwy 299, four miles west of Willow Creek
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Willow Creek, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
East Fork Campground – Six Rivers NF (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 →