Grassy Flat Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 23 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 19All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Grassy Flat Campground borders California's northern Redwood Highway in the expansive Six Rivers National Forest. This shady campground provides ample sightseeing and recreation opportunities and is just steps away from the wild whitewater of the Smith River, which is famous for its bright blue waters and scenic pathway through the forest. Keep reading
Recreation
Popular activities include swimming and sunbathing, rafting and fishing in the Smith River, which is just steps from the campground. Anglers enjoy healthy fishing populations of salmon, steelhead and cutthroat trout. Visitors also enjoy hiking, horseback riding and biking in the area. There are no trailheads in the campground, but Elk Camp Ridge, High Dome and French Hill trailheads are all within 10 miles of the site.
Facilities
The campground provides multiple single-family sites for tent or RV camping. Some sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets are provided. Water is not available at this facility.
Natural Features
Grassy Flat is located in a Douglas fir and hardwood forest. Smith River boasts up to Class 5 whitewater rapids. The region, thick with vegetation, is also freckled with huckleberry shrubs. The Six Rivers National Forest lies east of Eureka in northwestern California, stretching southward from the Oregon border for about 140 miles. U.S. 101, the famed "Redwood Highway," parallels the inland Forest along the coastline. The Forest is just east of the Redwood National Park.
Nearby Attractions
Madrone Flat, located across the bridge, provides excellent river access. Various state parks, providing scenic exploration opportunities, are just a short drive from the campground. Annual events in the area include the Gasquet Raft Race in July and the Del Norte County Fair in August. A small airport is about 6 miles away, in the town of Gasquet.
What the agency tells you
Additional fees will be collected at the campground for more than one vehicle; a limit of one extra vehicle is allowed
There are no electricity, water or sewer hookups
Learn more about Six Rivers National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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
- 19 · 4 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets are provided. Water is not available at this…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…Accessible vault toilets are provided. Water is not available at this facility. Natural Features Grassy Flat is…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 198th 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.
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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
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 19 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 19 of the 19 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. 19 of the 19 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| GRAS | 001 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 80 ft | 275 ft | 95 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 002 | walk to | 82 ft | 321 ft | 15 ft | $10 | |
| GRAS | 003 | walk to | 150 ft | 287 ft | 153 ft | $10 | |
| GRAS | 004 | walk to | 56 ft | 281 ft | 303 ft | $10 | |
| GRAS | 005 | walk to | 56 ft | 226 ft | 308 ft | $10 | |
| GRAS | 006 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 65 ft | 313 ft | 152 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 301 ft | 207 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 008 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 66 ft | 333 ft | 127 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 009 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 66 ft | 381 ft | 62 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 010 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 49 ft | 515 ft | 99 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 011 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 46 ft | 457 ft | 41 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 49 ft | 495 ft | 99 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 013 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 65 ft | 479 ft | 161 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 415 ft | 203 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 015 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 59 ft | 348 ft | 264 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 016 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 59 ft | 349 ft | 232 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 017 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 113 ft | 339 ft | 217 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 018 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 46 ft | 423 ft | 33 ft | $10 |
| GRAS | 019 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 85 ft | 308 ft | 109 ft | $10 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Panther Flat CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 2.3 miPatrick Creek CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 2.4 mi
Bear Basin Lookout and CabinSmith River National Recreation Area · 8.3 miNorth Fork CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 9.2 mi
Jedediah Smith Campground - Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park11 mi
Big Flat CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 12 miFrom Highway 101 north of Crescent City, California, take Highway 199 east for 18 miles to Grassy Flat Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gasquet, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 39°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Grassy Flat Campground is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →