Fowlers Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $15–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 36All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fowlers Campground is located on the Upper McCloud River five miles east of McCloud, California. The campground is nestled in a mixed conifer and oak woodland. The campground offers paved parking spurs, running water and vault restrooms. Keep reading
Recreation
A river-side trail from the campground provides access to the falls. It is approximately three miles round trip to see all three. Swimming and fishing are other popular activities. This section of river has no special restrictions for fishing. The McCloud River Loop, a paved road approximately 10 miles in length provides access to the Middle Falls and Upper Falls parking lots and overlooks if you do not wish to hike the trail.
Facilities
The campground has 35 regular campsites and two double campsites with tables, fire-rings, vault toilets and piped drinking water. Some sites are equipped with bear resistant food storage lockers. Sites are suitable for tents and mid-sized RVs or trailers. Large RVs are not recommended. Campground is typically staffed with a resident host.
Natural Features
Fowlers Campground is located on the eastside of majestic Mt. Shasta (14,179 foot summit) at an elevation of 3,300 feet. This area is at the southern tip of the Cascade Mountain Range. The area hosts abundant botanical and wildlife species. This campground is mostly known for the nearby McCloud River waterfalls. The McCloud Falls can be accessed via the McCloud River Trail or by road. The waterfalls vary in height from 15 to 50 feet.
Nearby Attractions
The Lower, Middle and Upper McCloud water falls, Lakin Dam Fishing Area, Cattle Camp Swimming Hole, McCloud Reservoir, Medicine Lake Highlands and the towns of McCloud (10 mins.) and Mt. Shasta (20 mins.) are nearby.
Charges & Cancellations
A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full details see NRRS Reservation Policy
What the agency tells you
14-day limit.
You must cancel at least three days in advance of your arrival date.
Pets must be leashed.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Be prepared for inclement weather.
Use proper wildlife precautions as wildlife is abundant in the area including bear, mountain lions, deer and various small mammals.
Don't feed wildlife. Store food properly.
Never abandon campfires. Put campfires out until cold to the touch.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 36
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 59 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 36
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 35 of 36 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…paved parking spurs, running water and vault restrooms. Recreation A river-side trail from the campground…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…fire-rings, vault toilets and piped drinking water. Some sites are equipped with bear resistant food…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Camp Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Reservoir, Lake, River
- Biking
- Birding
- Fishing
- Mountain biking
- Picnicking
- Snowshoeing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 143rd darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $15–$30 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.
“A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation.” · 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
36 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 36 mapped sitesAll 36 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. 36 of the 36 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 86 ft | 242 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 02 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 86 ft | 199 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 03 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 82 ft | 104 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 04 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 75 ft | 186 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 05 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 75 ft | 221 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 06 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 112 ft | 288 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 07 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 110 ft | 292 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 08 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 94 ft | 261 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 09 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 94 ft | 302 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 85 ft | 414 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 11 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 71 ft | 499 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 12 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | yes | 71 ft | 496 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 13 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | yes | 90 ft | 418 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 14 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 94 ft | 472 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 15-16 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | yes | 102 ft | 371 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 17 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 75 ft | 459 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 18 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 75 ft | 396 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 19 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 82 ft | 394 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 20 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 84 ft | 462 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 21 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 84 ft | 381 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 23 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | yes | 107 ft | 222 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 24 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | yes | 107 ft | 131 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 25 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 88 ft | 237 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 26 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | 70 ft | 216 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 27 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | yes | 70 ft | 151 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 28 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 88 ft | 203 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 29 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 88 ft | 133 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 30 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | yes | 106 ft | 178 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 31 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | yes | 112 ft | 284 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 32 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 80 ft | 357 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 33 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | yes | 80 ft | 303 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 34 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | yes | 99 ft | 318 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 35 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | 113 ft | 398 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 36 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 88 ft | 302 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 37 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | yes | 65 ft | 376 ft | $15–$30 |
| B | 38-39 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | yes | 65 ft | 440 ft | $15–$30 |
25 of 36 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Camp 4 Group CampgroundShasta National Forest · 2.2 miCattle Camp CampgroundShasta National Forest · 4.5 miAlgoma CampgroundShasta National Forest · 7.3 miAhDiNa CampgroundShasta National Forest · 10 miPanther Meadows CampgroundShasta National Forest · 12 miFrom McCloud, California, go east on Highway 89. Drive 5 miles and look for the Fowlers/Lower Falls Sign. Turn right just after the sign and drive approximately 1 mile. Once you cross the River Loop Road take the left fork into the campground. The right fork will take you to the day use/parking area for Lower Falls and the beginning of the River Trail.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for McCloud, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 27°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Fowlers Campground is in California’s 1st congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Doug LaMalfa for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.