U.S. Forest Service · Mendocino National Forest · CA
Fuller Grove Group Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 19 mi
Wildfire
West fire · 19 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Hill fire · 25 mi away · 2 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 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
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
1,890 ftElevation
498 ftWater · Lake Pillsbury
15.7 miNE of Redwood Valley, CA
45%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 295th darkest of 1,201 in CA
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Campground next to Fuller Boat Ramp. Accessible facilities include tables, fire rings, a food storage locker and restrooms.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Accessible facilities include tables, fire rings, a food storage locker and restrooms.”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Coordinate39.43624, -122.96975
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near herePogie Point CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 0.4 miNavy Camp CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 0.8 miOak Flat CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 1.0 miSunset CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 1.6 mi
Pine Mountain LookoutMendocino National Forest · 5.5 miLower Nye CampgroundBerryessa Snow Mountain National Monument · 7.7 mi
Pine Mountain LookoutMendocino National Forest · 5.5 miLower Nye CampgroundBerryessa Snow Mountain National Monument · 7.7 miSource: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today95°Sunny
Tonight43°Mostly Clear
Saturday90°Sunny
Saturday Night40°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Potter Valley, CA
Source: National Weather Service, EKA forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
100°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: POTTER VALLEY POWERHOUSE, CA (USC00047109), 10 miles away and 872 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Fuller Grove Group Campground is in California’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Mike Thompson (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’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.
Nearest place of any size: Potter Valley, CA, 9.9 mi NE (a census designated place). Straight line.