Grasshopper Flat
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $38From, per site
- Sites
- 7067 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Grasshopper Flat Campground (5,886 feet) is one of three family campgrounds located in the Lake Davis Recreation Area. Campground loops around in the hills overlooking the lake providing most campsites with sweeping views of the lake's crystal blue water. Pine forest gives most campsites plenty of afternoon shade. A boat ramp and RV dump station are nearby. A trailhead for 7 mile long Lake Davis Trail is less than half a mile away. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to camping, the area offers a wide variety of popular water-related activities, including fishing, boating and swimming. Numerous fishing access points are located around the perimeter of the lake. Free trout fishing days are hosted by state agencies in June and September. Mountain biking, hunting and wildlife viewing are also available in the area. During winter months visitors enjoy ice fishing, snowmobiling and cross-country skiing.
Facilities
There are multiple single-family tent and RV campsites, as well as one large group site. All campsites are equipped with picnic table, campfire rings and grill. Each site can accommodate up to two vehicles on a paved pad. The campground has paved roads. In peak season there is a campground host, drinking water, coin operated showers, flush toilets and trash service.
Natural Features
The 4,000-acre Lake Davis was created in 1967 for recreational opportunities, as well as to rejuvenate fish populations in nearby rivers and supply water to the town of Portola. The lake offers 32 miles of shoreline and is surrounded by tall pine trees. A variety of wildlife make its home near the campground. Tall mountain peaks offer backdrop to lake views. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 836-2575.
Nearby Attractions
The closest town is Portola, California, which is home to one of the largest railroad museums in the western United States. A state game refuge borders the lake to the east and the south.
What the agency tells you
Generally, campsites will accommodate 2 vehicles. The first vehicle is included in the site fee, the second vehicle fee will be collected onsite at the daily rate posted on the fee sign.
Some campsites are available on a first come basis.
Frequent strong winds can cause the lake to become very hazardous for small craft.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Waterskiing and jet skis are not permitted.
Fires only allowed in designated fire rings. Firewood Bundles are available for purchase from the campground host.
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.
Bears may visit the campground during the day as well at at night. Bear resistant lockers are not available. Follow campground regulations and store food and other attractants safely. For more information Click Here
For more information about Plumas National Forest Click here
The Showers are open for the camping season.
Check- In is 2:00pm and Check-Out is Noon
Campground Map
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 70 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 54 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…drinking water, coin operated showers, flush toilets and trash service. Natural Features The 4,000-acre…”
- Showers
- Coin Showers
- “In peak season there is a campground host, drinking water, coin operated showers, flush toilets and trash service.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…peak season there is a campground host, drinking water, coin operated showers, flush toilets and trash…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Sailboarding
- Sailing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 485th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 67 of the 70 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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $38 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
71 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 67 mapped sitesAll 71 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 70 of the 71 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA GRASSHOPPER FLAT | XXX | unnamed record | 45 ft | $33.97 | |||
| LOO1 | 001 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 593 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 002 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 575 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 76 ft | 428 ft | $38 | |
| LOO1 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 68 ft | 540 ft | $38 | |
| LOO1 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 66 ft | 534 ft | $38 | |
| LOO1 | 006 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 551 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 007 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 439 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 527 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 100 ft | 430 ft | $38 | |
| LOO1 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 75 ft | 528 ft | $38 | |
| LOO1 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 75 ft | 494 ft | $38 | |
| LOO1 | 012 | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 364 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 013 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 375 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 252 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 015 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 324 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 016 | standard nonelectric | 171 ft | 65 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 118 ft | under 10 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 018 | standard nonelectric | 118 ft | under 10 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 019 | standard nonelectric | 113 ft | 130 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 020 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 233 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 021 | standard nonelectric | 113 ft | 120 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 022 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 113 ft | 310 ft | $38 | |
| LOO1 | 023 | standard nonelectric | 89 ft | 154 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 024 | standard nonelectric | 89 ft | 140 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 025 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 107 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 026 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 205 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 027 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 144 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 028 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 77 ft | 211 ft | $38 | |
| LOO1 | 029 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 262 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 030 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 290 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 031 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 364 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 032 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 437 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO1 | 033 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 457 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 034 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 642 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 035 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 483 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 036 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 558 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 037 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 449 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 038 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 92 ft | 304 ft | $38 | |
| LOO2 | 039 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 229 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 040 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 300 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 041 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 141 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 042 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 231 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 043 | standard nonelectric | 142 ft | 106 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 044 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 115 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 045 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 203 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 046 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 240 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 047 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 303 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 048 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 373 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 049 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 467 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 050 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 557 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 051 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 436 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO2 | 052 | type not stated | 630 ft | $33.97 | |||
| LOO3 | 053 | type not stated | 644 ft | $33.97 | |||
| LOO3 | 054 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 515 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 055 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 434 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 056 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 546 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 057 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 482 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 058 | standard nonelectric | 107 ft | 354 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 059 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 379 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 060 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 251 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 061 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 337 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 062 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 195 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 063 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 289 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 064 | standard nonelectric | yes | 80 ft | 193 ft | $38 | |
| LOO3 | 065 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 225 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 066 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 220 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 067 | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 251 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 068 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 152 ft | $38 | ||
| LOO3 | 070 | type not stated | 12 ft | $33.97 | |||
| LOO3 | 69/70 | group standard nonelectric | 185 ft | 62 ft | $100 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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.
25 of 71 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
GrizzlyPlumas National Forest · 0.3 mi
Crocker Guard StationPlumas National Forest · 2.8 miCrocker CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 2.9 mi
Lightning TreePlumas National Forest · 3.0 miLightning Tree CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 3.1 miFrom Reno, travel north on Highway 395 to Highway 70 and turn west to Portola. From Portola, take County road 126 north for seven miles, then County road 112 to the east side of Lake Davis. It is approximately one mile to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Beckwourth, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Grasshopper Flat 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 →