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Bureau of Land Management · Bishop Field Office · CA

Goodale Creek Campground

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 44 mi
Wildfire
Land fire · 44 mi away · 20 acres · updated Oct 11, 2026
Wildfire
Wildfire Training fire · 49 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 15, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 15, 2026
ReservableOut of season; the next season isn't published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$5From, per site
Sites
43All of them booked ahead
Photos · Bishop Field Office-Bureau of Land Management
4,140 ftElevation
415 ftWater · Goodale Creek
11 miS of Big Pine, CA
0%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 134th darkest of 1,201 in CA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices

In the agency’s own words

Overview $7.00 per site per night. No reservations. Open all year. Goodale Creek Campground offers 43 RV/tent sites, with five pull-through trailer spaces, maximum recommended RV length is 30 feet. All sites include a fire pit, picnic table and a lantern holder. No hook-up, potable water or dump station. Closest amenities are 12 miles north in Big Pine.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Camping for a period longer than 14 days at any one campground, not to exceed 28 days per calendar year for all Bishop Field Office campgrounds, is prohibited without the written permission from the Field Office Manager. A California Campfire Permit is not required for fires within established fire rings in developed campgrounds. Seasonal fire restrictions may prohibit campfires during periods of high fire danger. Please check the BLM’s website for information on current fire restrictions or call the Bishop Field Office at (760) 872-5000.

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
43
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Dump station
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:52 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. The last reservable season the agency published ended December 31, 2023, and it hasn't published the next one.recreation.gov
A night$5plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$18DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itBureau of Land ManagementBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 12

What you actually pay

The sign priceBureau of Land Management
A night$5
Goodale Creek Campground$5
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Jan 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
One nightDerived$13
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$18

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $5 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 5
Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026
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

recreation.gov availability, read 16:52 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

43 sites

All 43 sites

Up to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 43 of the 43 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Site #1standard nonelectric$5
Site #10standard nonelectric$5
Site #11standard nonelectric$5
Site #12standard nonelectric$5
Site #13standard nonelectric$5
Site #14standard nonelectric$5
Site #15standard nonelectric$5
Site #16standard nonelectric$5
Site #17standard nonelectric$5
Site #18standard nonelectric$5
Site #19standard nonelectric$5
Site #2standard nonelectric$5
Site #20standard nonelectric$5
Site #21standard nonelectric$5
Site #22standard nonelectric$5
Site #23standard nonelectric$5
Site #24standard nonelectric$5
Site #25standard nonelectric$5
Site #26standard nonelectric$5
Site #27standard nonelectric$5
Site #28standard nonelectric$5
Site #29standard nonelectric$5
Site #3standard nonelectric$5
Site #30standard nonelectric$5
Site #31standard nonelectric$5
Site #32standard nonelectric$5
Site #33standard nonelectric$5
Site #34standard nonelectric$5
Site #35standard nonelectric$5
Site #36standard nonelectric$5
Site #37standard nonelectric$5
Site #38standard nonelectric$5
Site #39standard nonelectric$5
Site #4standard nonelectric$5
Site #40standard nonelectric$5
Site #41standard nonelectric$5
Site #42standard nonelectric$5
Site #43standard nonelectric$5
Site #5standard nonelectric$5
Site #6standard nonelectric$5
Site #7standard nonelectric$5
Site #8standard nonelectric$5
Site #9standard nonelectric$5
Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 43 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate
Coordinate36.98600, -118.27800
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Source: 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

Overnight52°Clear
Saturday79°Sunny
Saturday Night52°Mostly Clear
Sunday80°Sunny

NWS forecast for Independence, CA

Source: National Weather Service, VEF forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 48°F, day 81°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 29°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

110°32°20°

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: INDEPENDENCE, CA (USC00044232), 14 miles away and 190 ft lower
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Tinemaha27,060 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area

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

Kevin Kiley, official portrait

Goodale Creek Campground 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

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.
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 43 of the 43 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.041 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 1,201 rated federal campgrounds in California · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
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.
Nearest place of any size: Independence, CA, 9.6 mi NNW (a census designated place). Straight line.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026