Gregory Creek Group Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
The campground is a single loop and is moderately to thickly wooded with a mix of oak and pine trees that provide plenty of shade during the summer (80% + cover). The understory, which consists of manzanita, blackberries, poison oak, tree fern, wild grape and a variety of native grasses and forbs provide limited privacy between campsites. When the lake level is high, the bank is moderately sloped to provide access to the water. As the lake level drops, it exposes a steep drop off to the water, especially on the side of the campground nearest Gregory Beach. There is a boat ramp nearby at Antlers. Lake activities include fishing, swimming, motorized and non-motorized boating, and watersports. Each site has a picnic table, and a fire ring. Keep reading
Recreation
Shasta Lake provides a variety of water sports, such as power boating, non-motorized boating and water skiing. A public boat ramp is provided near the campground. Anglers can fish for trout, catfish, Chinook salmon, crappie, bluegill, white sturgeon, brown bullhead and bass.
Facilities
Each site has a picnic table, fire rings, grills, and tent pads. Sites at this campground can accommodate both tents and RVs, however there are no electric/water hookups or dump stations. There are flush toilets at this campground but no showers are available. Drinking water is provided.
Natural Features
The Shasta-Trinity is the largest national forest in California with a diverse landscape, encompassing five wilderness areas, hundreds of mountain lakes and 6,278 miles of streams and rivers. Lake Shasta sits at an elevation of 1,067 feet and has 365 miles of shoreline punctuated by steep mountains blanketed in Manzanita and evergreens. Snow-capped Mount Shasta, the second-tallest mountain in the Cascade Range, looms in the distance.
Nearby Attractions
Tours are available at the nearby Lake Shasta Caverns. Antlers is located within the town of Lakehead, which offers restaurants and shopping.
What the agency tells you
Call 530 - 275 - 8113 one week before arrival for entry gate code.
Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out 12 P.M.
No Amplified Sound!
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…hookups or dump stations. There are flush toilets at this campground but no showers are available.…”
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There are flush toilets at this campground but no showers are available.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campground but no showers are available. Drinking water is provided. Natural Features The Shasta-Trinity is…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 603rd darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
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 · 25
What you actually pay
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
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| GREGORY CREEK GROUP CAMPGROUND | 001 | group standard area nonelectric | 20 ft | 170 ft | $170 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Gregory Beach Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.2 miAntlers CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.4 mi
Antlers (Shasta Lake, CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.5 mi
Lakeshore EastWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.5 mi
Nelson PointWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.0 mi
Salt Creek Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.2 miLocated adjacent to Gregory Beach dispersed area along the Upper Sacramento River Arm of Shasta Lake, 15 miles northeast of I-5 on Gilman Road. From I-5, take exit 698 Salt Creek/Gilman Road. Turn left at end of off ramp and follow Salt Creek Road (also known as Gregory Creek Road) for 4 miles.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lakehead, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°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 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
Gregory Creek Group Campground is in California’s 1st congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Doug LaMalfa for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Inside the Salt Fire perimeter, 2021, 12,599 acres. Tree cover here read 31% in the 2021 product and 0% in the 2024 one.