Fashoda
1Heads up1 fire 35 mi away
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $36From, per site
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
- Season
- June 1 – September 30Open June 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fashoda Campground, located on a peninsula of the eastern side of Union Valley Reservoir, is an incredibly scenic place to camp. The lake area is a hub for activities like swimming, sailing, boating and fishing. Hiking and biking are also quite popular, and many campers make use of the Union Valley Bike Trail. Keep reading
Recreation
Head out on a sailboat or take the family water skiing. Union Valley offers a number of water activities. Anglers seek rainbow, brown and mackinaw trout and Kokanee salmon. The Union Valley Bike Trail stretches 4.8 miles with an easy climb of 300 feet. The trail connects campgrounds on the east side of the lake, starting from Wench Creek on down to Jones Fork Campground.
Facilities
All sites are walk-to tent camping sites. A parking lot is located above the campground. Perks of the campground include vault toilets, drinking water, showers and a picnic area. Campers can make use of the fee dump station at Yellowjacket or Sunset Campgrounds.
Natural Features
Union Valley Reservoir sits in the Crystal Basin, spanning 25,000 acres at an elevation of 5,100 feet. The area is part of the Eldorado National Forest, which is home to the famed gold mining territory of the 1800s. Remnants of the California Gold Rush days can be found throughout the region. Wildlife thrives in the Eldorado National Forest. Bring a camera and be sure to look for spotted owls, bobcats, mule deer and porcupines.
Nearby Attractions
Climb up Two Peaks and look down on a fantastic view of Union Valley and the Crystal Basin.
Charges & Cancellations
Change Fee: A service fee may be charged at the time a modification is made depending on the changes. Cancellation Fee: A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refunds for a cancelled reservation. Cut-Off Window: The latest date and/or time that you can make an advanced reservation or a change to an existing reservation. Cut-off windows can vary by location, but are typically 4 days before your arrival date. A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (see Late Cancellation below). Late Cancellation: If you cancel your reservation too close to the start date, additional service fees may be withheld. 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).
What the agency tells you
Bears frequent the area; use appropiate food containers
Forest Order No. 19-15-01: Prohibits camping for a combined total of no more than 14 days during a calendar year (January-December), forest-wide. Visitors may book campsites annually but the maximum stay may not exceed a total of 14 days each calendar year (January-December).
No hookups available (electric/water/sewer)
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Campground is 100% reservable
Tent Camping Only. Vehicles must be parked in the parking lot. There are no parking spurs at your site.
Please keep boats clean, drained and dry, to avoid transport or introduction of aquatic invasive species
Please Note: One vehicle per single 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.
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; call (530) 644-6048 for local information and conditions.
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).
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (1PM) 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.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
Click here for more information on the Eldorado National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 30 · 30 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Perks of the campground include vault toilets, drinking water, showers and a picnic area. Campers…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…of the campground include vault toilets, drinking water, showers and a picnic area. Campers can make use of…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 25 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 19
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $36 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.
“- Change Fee: A service fee may be charged at the time a modification is made depending on the changes. - Cancellation Fee: A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refunds for a cancelled reservation. - Cut-Off Window: The latest date and/or time that you can make an advanced reservation or a change to an existi…” · this campground’s own terms
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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
30 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 30 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 30 of the 30 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BEAC | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 23 ft | 431 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 23 ft | 418 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 52 ft | 462 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 58 ft | 404 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 43 ft | 340 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 43 ft | 318 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 42 ft | 268 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 016 | tent only nonelectric | 42 ft | 282 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 48 ft | 368 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 019 | tent only nonelectric | 55 ft | 314 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 60 ft | 255 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 023 | tent only nonelectric | 60 ft | 213 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 025 | tent only nonelectric | 36 ft | 167 ft | $36 | |
| BEAC | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 36 ft | 199 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 001 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 409 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 33 ft | 415 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 003 | tent only nonelectric | 33 ft | 421 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 54 ft | 433 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 54 ft | 427 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 006 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 63 ft | 416 ft | $36 |
| PARK | 007 | tent only nonelectric | 51 ft | 479 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 51 ft | 486 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 018 | tent only nonelectric | 37 ft | 385 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 020 | tent only nonelectric | 37 ft | 360 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 022 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 309 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 292 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 41 ft | 316 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 028 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 289 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 029 | tent only nonelectric | 41 ft | 344 ft | $36 | |
| PARK | 030 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | 432 ft | $36 |
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 30 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sunset-Union ValleyEldorado National Forest · 0.4 miJones Fork CampgroundEldorado National Forest · 0.9 mi
Wolf Creek CaliforniaEldorado National Forest · 1.0 mi
Yellowjacket1.6 miAzalea Cove CampgroundEldorado National Forest · 1.7 miFrom Placerville, take Highway 50 east for 23 miles. Turn north on Forest Road 3 (Ice House Road) for 15 miles. Look for signs to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Pollock Pines, CA
Typical weather
Typical June night 54°F, day 70°F.
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
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
Fashoda is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →