Fish Creek (CA)
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 17 mi
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Sites
- 93 on recreation.gov
- Season
- June 1 – September 30Open June 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fish Creek Campground remains closed due to the 2020 Creek Wildfire. Fish Creek Campground is a small, primitive camp offering standard and tent-only sites. The campground is surrounded by mountains and tucked into a shady spot beneath oaks and pines. Sites are located along Fish Creek. Keep reading
Recreation
Hikers can access the nearby French Trail, a 12.7 mile foot trail that extends from Squaw Dome Trailhead to Logan Meadow Trailhead. Other activities include hunting in designated areas and fishing.
Facilities
Each unit has a picnic table, grill and fire ring. Vault toilets are provided, but campers must bring drinking water.
Natural Features
Fish Creek Campground is located in the Bass Lake Ranger District. At an elevation of 3,400 feet, Bass Lake is a very popular area known for its variety of fish, as well as the bald and golden eagles that make their home here. The Sierra National Forest, located on the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada, is known for its spectacular mountain scenery and abundant natural resources. The terrain includes rolling, oak-covered foothills, heavily forested middle elevation slopes and the starkly beautiful alpine landscape of the High Sierra.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby Mammoth Pool Reservoir offers a variety of recreational activities, including fishing, boating, hiking and wildlife viewing. Campers can use a pay phone, as well as get gas and supplies at Wagner's Mammoth Pool Resort. A popular pastime in the area is to take a drive on the 83-mile Sierra Vista Scenic Byway.
What the agency tells you
Maximum RV length is 20 feet
Drinking water is not provided at this campground
Single site fees include 1 vehicle and 1 legally towed vehicle. Any additional vehicles are subject to an extra vehicle fee on-site, space permitting. Extra vehicle fee per night, per vehicle and must be paid by cash or check on-site.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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.
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 to learn more about the Sierra National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9 · 3 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…has a picnic table, grill and fire ring. Vault toilets are provided, but campers must bring drinking…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “Vault toilets are provided, but campers must bring drinking water.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Meadow
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 781st darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 3 of the 9 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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Every line of the receipt · 9
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 →
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
9 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 5 mapped sites3 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 9 sites
| AREA FISH CREEK | FS1-20 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | ||
| AREA FISH CREEK | FS1-201 | standard nonelectric | 1,536 ft | ||
| AREA FISH CREEK | FS1-202 | standard nonelectric | 1,536 ft | ||
| AREA FISH CREEK | FS1-203 | standard nonelectric | 1,536 ft | ||
| AREA FISH CREEK | FS1-204 | standard nonelectric | |||
| AREA FISH CREEK | FS1-20N | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | ||
| AREA FISH CREEK | FT1-20 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | ||
| AREA FISH CREEK | FT1-201 | tent only nonelectric | 263 ft | 1,778 ft | |
| AREA FISH CREEK | FT1-202 | tent only nonelectric | 270 ft | 1,958 ft |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rock Creek (Sierra National Forest, CA)Sierra National Forest · 2.1 miRock Creek CampgroundSierra National Forest · 2.1 miWhisky Falls CampgroundSierra National Forest · 4.9 mi
Mammoth PoolSierra National Forest · 5.9 mi
SweetwaterSierra National Forest · 7.2 mi
Lower Billy CreekSierra National Forest · 7.2 miFrom Fresno, California: Take Highway 41 north, turn northeast on Forest Road 200 and pass through North Fork. Take Minarets Road (heading east out of North Fork) for 19 miles to the Fish Creek Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for North Fork, CA
Typical weather
Typical June night 44°F, day 73°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 44°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Fish Creek (CA) is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →