Granite Flat (California)
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 10 mi
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $22–$44Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 7473 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 27 – October 11Open May 27 through October 11
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Granite Flat Campground is located between the Truckee River and Highway 89, just one mile from Truckee and a short distance from Tahoe City. Visitors enjoy the area for its fishing and hiking opportunities, as well as its proximity to Lake Tahoe. This facility is operated and maintained by Lake Tahoe Hospitality LLC for the Tahoe National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
Fly-fishing for rainbow trout on the Truckee River is a popular activity enjoyed by visitors to the area. Campers also enjoy swimming and tubing on the river. The surrounding area offers numerous hiking and biking trails, including the Western States Trail, Five Lakes Trail, and Pacific Crest Trail.
Facilities
The campground offers several single-family and a few double campsites, some of which are accessible. Each site is equipped with a picnic table, campfire ring and bearproof food storage locker. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Seven campsites are walk-in tent sites with parking provided outside the campsite: #69, #70, #71, #72, #73, #74, and #75. Please be aware that the following campsites are located adjacent to busy Highway 89 and more subject to motor vehicle noise: #7, #9, #11, #13, #15, #17, #19, #21, #23, #47, #49, #51, #53, #67, and #68.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the banks of the Truckee River. A scenic forest of Jeffrey and lodgepole pine trees covers the area. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (530) 606-3978 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Granite Flat is centrally located between the town of Truckee and Prosser, Boca and Stampede reservoirs to the north, as well as Lake Tahoe and Olympic Valley to the south. A variety of outdoor recreational activities are available at each location. Truckee, 1 mile north, offers all the amenities of a year round recreational mountain town including interstate highway connectivity, top notch restaurants, resorts and hotels, grocery stores, gas stations, shopping, and historic sites. Lake Tahoe is located 15 minutes south and offers excellent boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and scenic driving opportunities, as well as dining, shopping and lodging options. Other recreational opportunities include Donner Camp Interpretive Trail, Overland Emigrant Commemorative Trail, Stampede Reservoir Recreation Area, Prosser Pits OHV area, and numerous hiking, mountain biking, and OHV trails.
What the agency tells you
Bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in approved containers. Bear locker dimensions are 28" tall x 47" wide x 36" deep. Please plan food storage containers accordingly.
Off-highway vehicles must be trailered to and from designated OHV routes. Recreational riding is not allowed in the campground
Click here for more information on the Tahoe National Forest.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
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. For current fire conditions or weather closures contact the Truckee Ranger District (530) 587-3558 (voice), (530) 587-6907 (TDD).
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.
Firewood available from the campground host (subject to availability).
One vehicle included with single site reservation and two vehicles included in double site reservation. Additional vehicle fee cost is $10/each per night for all vehicles. All operable, highway legal vehicles must pay extra vehicle fee, excluding the single vehicle included with the reservation. Please pay extra vehicle fee at the self-serve fee tube located near campground entrance if not paid online.
Campsite check-out time is 12:00pm. Check-in time is 2:00pm.
2 dogs maximum per single site. Dogs shall always be kept on leash no longer than six feet or otherwise confined. Violation notices WILL be issued for non-compliance.
6 people maximum per single site and 12 people maximum per double site.
Modifications for this campground must be made PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 74 · 7 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 9
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…ring and bearproof food storage locker. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Seven campsites…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…food storage locker. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Seven campsites are walk-in tent…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Mountain biking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 997th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 16 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 73 of the 74 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.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
“Additional vehicle fee cost is $10/each per night for all vehicles.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$44 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.
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
75 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 70 mapped sitesAll 75 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 17 of the 75 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 74 of the 75 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 002 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 62 ft | 144 ft | 2,545 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 62 ft | 113 ft | 2,606 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 68 ft | 46 ft | 2,751 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 56 ft | 52 ft | 2,800 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 56 ft | 53 ft | 2,840 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 64 ft | 163 ft | 2,719 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 008 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 42 ft | 56 ft | 2,880 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 009 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 33 ft | 167 ft | 2,764 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 010 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 42 ft | 71 ft | 2,911 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 011 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 33 ft | 171 ft | 2,786 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 012 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 81 ft | 92 ft | 2,972 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 68 ft | 181 ft | 2,867 ft | $22–$44 |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 126 ft | 82 ft | 3,102 ft | $22–$44 |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 68 ft | 194 ft | 2,921 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 016 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 65 ft | 94 ft | 3,215 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 017 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 118 ft | 206 ft | 3,148 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 018 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 65 ft | 137 ft | 3,256 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 019 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 88 ft | 297 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 020 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 53 ft | 210 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 021 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 88 ft | 334 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 52 ft | 233 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 83 ft | 331 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 024 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 52 ft | 219 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 025 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | 59 ft | 205 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 52 ft | 228 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 027 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 59 ft | 162 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 60 ft | 249 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 029 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 56 ft | 161 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 030 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 44 ft | 130 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 031 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 44 ft | 100 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 032/033 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 51 ft | 82 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 034 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 51 ft | 78 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 035 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 56 ft | 307 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 036 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 58 ft | 254 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 037 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 43 ft | 304 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 038 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 51 ft | 241 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 039 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 42 ft | 210 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 040 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 40 ft | 213 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 041 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 61 ft | 145 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 042 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 40 ft | 214 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 043 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 56 ft | 127 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 044 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 55 ft | 183 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 045 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 59 ft | 206 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 046 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 55 ft | 238 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 047 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 33 ft | 290 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 048 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 91 ft | 219 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 049 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 33 ft | 300 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 050/052 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 66 ft | 202 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 051 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 306 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 053 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | $22–$44 | ||||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 054 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | yes | 58 ft | 204 ft | $22–$44 | |
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 055 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 62 ft | 180 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 056 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 44 ft | 189 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 057 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 33 ft | 121 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 058 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 33 ft | 90 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 059 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 52 ft | 63 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 060 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 52 ft | 62 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 061 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 44 ft | 158 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 062 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 61 ft | 151 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 063 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 75 ft | 70 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 064 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 96 ft | 94 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 065 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 42 ft | 170 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 066 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $22–$44 | ||||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 067 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 37 ft | 221 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 068 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 37 ft | 227 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 069 | walk to | 18 ft | 55 ft | 130 ft | $22 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 070 | walk to | 18 ft | 55 ft | 145 ft | $22 | ||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 071 | walk to | 55 ft | 114 ft | $22 | |||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 072 | walk to | 48 ft | 112 ft | $22 | |||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 073 | walk to | 48 ft | 121 ft | $22 | |||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 074 | walk to | 60 ft | 97 ft | $22 | |||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | 075 | walk to | 62 ft | 77 ft | $22 | |||
| AREA GRANITE FLAT (CALIFORNIA) | Host | host pad | 40 ft | $22–$44 | ||||
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 25 ft | $22–$44 | ||||
| S&P | Single, S&P | type not stated | 45 ft | $22–$44 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 75 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Goose Meadows2.9 mi
Alpine Meadow Campground4.6 mi
Silver Creek-TruckeeTahoe National Forest · 5.2 mi
Prosser FamilyTahoe National Forest · 5.8 mi
Prosser Ranch GroupTahoe National Forest · 6.0 mi
Lakeside (Truckee)Tahoe National Forest · 6.0 miFrom Truckee, take Highway 89 south approx. 1 mile to the campground. 9500 River Road, Truckee, CA 96161
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Truckee, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 63°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 29°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 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
Granite Flat (California) 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 →