Bureau of Land Management · CA

Equestrian Campground

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 22 mi
Wildfire
Wildfire Training fire · 22 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 15, 2026
Wildfire
Land fire · 43 mi away · 20 acres · updated Oct 11, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$25From, per site
Drawn from the record · 1,020 ft · 0% tree cover · San Joaquin River within reach · Bortle 4 sky
1,020 ftElevation
2,040 ftWater · San Joaquin River
1.3 miW of Auberry, CA
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 1029th darkest of 1,201 in CA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Nestled by large oak trees and located near the Nuckahee Learning center, the Equestrian Campground offers a large parking area for trailers, and corrals available for horseback riders. A short 1/4 mile bypass trail connects you to the main trail head that leads to the other trails in the management area. Keep reading

Facilities

The Equestrian Campground offers 3 accessible campsites with fire rings, picnic tables and wood grill. Drinking water is available via a paddle style spigot next to the corrals. Garbage collection is available, and an accessible restroom is on site. Reservations for this site are not accepted and it is a first come-first serve basis. No electricity is provided, and cell service is typically nonexistent. Please practice Leave No Trace and Tread Lightly principles to recreate responsibly on your public lands. Parking The gravel parking area is large enough for 2-3 trucks with horse trailers and provides enough space to turn around. Please do not block access for others when parking. Restrictions A permit is required for campfires, and campfires must be in designated fire rings in the campgrounds.

Facilities

Toilets
Portable Toilets
“Farther to the east, just north of the horse corral, an accessible portable toilet sits next to a dumpster on gravel and dirt.”
Drinking water
Yes
“…rings, picnic tables and wood grill. Drinking water is available via a paddle style spigot next to the…”
Source: read from the agency description and read from the agency accessibility notes, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

Horse Camping
Horseback riding
Cell signal · Cell signal · BLM says
None
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Cell signal: the BLM’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise. · Sep 8, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $25 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.

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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe agency’s record
A night$25Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$50DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itBureau of Land Managementthe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 6

What you actually pay

The sign priceBureau of Land Management
A night, from$25
Night$25
Stay limit14 Day camping limit, Day Use 6am-10pm
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$25
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$50

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($25), 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

rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon89°Sunny
Tonight65°Clear
Saturday89°Sunny
Saturday Night63°Clear

NWS forecast for Auberry, CA

Typical weather

Typical October night 50°F, day 80°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

110°30°

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.

Measured at: FRIANT GOVERNMENT CAMP, CA (USC00043261), 11 miles away and 610 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Vince Fong, official portrait

Equestrian Campground is in California’s 20th congressional district. Its representative, Vince Fong (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Bureau of Land Management publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Cell signal: the BLM’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise. · Sep 8, 2026

“…serve basis. No electricity is provided, and cell service is typically nonexistent. Please practice Leave No…”