Elk Prairie Campground - Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
5Heads up4 park alerts · 1 fire 44 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $35From, per site
- Sites
- 75All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Enjoy ancient coast redwoods, grazing Roosevelt elk and black-tailed deer in Elk Prairie, easy access to over 70 miles of hiking and biking trails, and seasonal ranger-led programs. Cabins available. Located in the heart of Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, 6 miles north of Orick, CA.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 8
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($35), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
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Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park24 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Orick, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 38°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 Septembers are colder than the September 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
Elk Prairie Campground - Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park 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 →