Grizzly
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $38From, per site
- Sites
- 5529 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Grizzly Campground (5,777 feet) is one of three family-friendly campgrounds located in the Lake Davis Recreation Area. The recreation area and its namesake lake, Lake Davis provides the classic lake fishing experience. For example, there are four boat launching facilities and many fishing access points around the lake. Water skiing and jet skiing are not allowed on this lake. That makes it a quieter location for that peaceful leisurely camping experience you're looking for. 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 and anglers will find rainbow and brown trout, bass and catfish. A boat ramp is available a half-mile north of the campground. Mountain biking, hiking, hunting and wildlife viewing are also available in the area.
Facilities
The campground offers dozens of single-family sites, two of which are accessible, for tent and RV camping. A large portion of the campsites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Utility hookups are not provided. Each site is equipped with picnic table, campfire ring with grill, and can accommodate up to two vehicles. Campground host, accessible flush toilets, and drinking water are provided. Campers are welcome to take advantage of the coin-operated showers half a mile away at Grasshopper Flat Campground.
Natural Features
Lake Davis covers 4,000 acres and 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. The campground is on the eastern shore and just a few campsites have lake views. The trees provide ample shade for the campground, however privacy is limited by a lack of understory. Smith Peak State Game Refuge borders the lake to the east and south, creating prime habitat for a variety of wildlife and birds. Rich meadow rangeland combines with pine forest in every direction around the lake. Many lovely stands of aspen show, adding their richness to area fall color.
Nearby Attractions
The closest town is Portola, California, which is about 9 miles from the campground. Portola is home to one of the largest railroad museums in the western United States. Visit Smith Peak Fire Lookout when lightning is not expected. Explore the many forest roads in this area. Take along a map, full tank and a dependable vehicle. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 836-2575.
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 sites are available on a first-come, first serve basis.
Before arriving for your reservation, become aware of bear safety. Many black bears live in the nearby forest. They do come into the campground during the day as well as night. Bear safe food lockers are not available in the campground. Please go to the following link for mor information http://www.centerforwildlifeinformation.org/
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Frequent strong winds can cause the lake to become very hazardous for small craft.
Water skiing and jet skiing are not permitted on the lake.
Click here for more information on the Plumas National Forest
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.
Off road vehicles are not allowed on any facility roads. violators may be cited.
Check- In is 2:00pm and Check-Out is Noon
Campground Map
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 55
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- 54 of 55
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…vehicles. Campground host, accessible flush toilets, and drinking water are provided. Campers are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…host, accessible flush toilets, and drinking water are provided. Campers are welcome to take advantage…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 29 of the 55 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 · 12
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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
57 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 29 mapped sitesAll 57 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. 55 of the 57 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 GRIZZLY | 001 | standard nonelectric | 119 ft | 910 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 002 | standard nonelectric | 119 ft | 891 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 003 | standard nonelectric | 124 ft | 819 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 004 | standard nonelectric | 124 ft | 831 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 005 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 853 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 006 | standard nonelectric | 201 ft | 826 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 007 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 806 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 008 | type not stated | 708 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 009 | type not stated | 723 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 010 | standard nonelectric | 175 ft | 652 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 011 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 612 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 012 | type not stated | 599 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 013 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 518 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 014 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 442 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 015 | standard nonelectric | yes | 76 ft | 318 ft | $38 |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 016 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 381 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 017 | standard nonelectric | 167 ft | 282 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 018 | type not stated | 358 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 019 | type not stated | 305 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 020 | standard nonelectric | 122 ft | 410 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 021 | standard nonelectric | 159 ft | 534 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 022 | standard nonelectric | 122 ft | 531 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 023 | type not stated | 661 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 024 | type not stated | 615 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 025 | standard nonelectric | 188 ft | 702 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 026 | type not stated | 797 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 027 | type not stated | 764 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 028 | standard nonelectric | 336 ft | 858 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 029 | type not stated | 742 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 030 | type not stated | 586 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 031 | type not stated | 681 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 032 | type not stated | 557 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 033 | type not stated | 667 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 034 | type not stated | 614 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 035 | standard nonelectric | 124 ft | 441 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 036 | standard nonelectric | 124 ft | 515 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 037 | type not stated | 450 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 038 | standard nonelectric | 158 ft | 269 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 039 | standard nonelectric | 140 ft | 268 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 040 | standard nonelectric | 140 ft | 137 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 041 | type not stated | 215 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 042 | type not stated | 340 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 043 | type not stated | 358 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 044 | standard nonelectric | 374 ft | 199 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 045 | type not stated | 381 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 046 | type not stated | 469 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 047 | type not stated | 401 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 048 | type not stated | 505 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 049 | standard nonelectric | 171 ft | 553 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 050 | type not stated | 630 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 051 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 613 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 052 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 728 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 053 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 674 ft | $38 | |
| AREA GRIZZLY | 054 | type not stated | 788 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | 055 | type not stated | 820 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | XXX39 | unnamed record | 1,434 ft | $38 | ||
| AREA GRIZZLY | XXX40 | unnamed record | 1,415 ft | $38 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is 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 57 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Grasshopper FlatPlumas National Forest · 0.3 miHonker Cove OverflowPlumas National Forest · 0.4 mi
Crocker Guard StationPlumas National Forest · 2.6 miCrocker CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 2.7 mi
Lightning TreePlumas National Forest · 3.3 miLightning Tree CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 3.4 miFrom Reno, travel north on Highway 395 to Highway 70 and turn west to Portola. From Portola, take County Road 126 north for 7 miles, then County Road 112 to the east side of Lake Davis. Continue approximately 1 mile to the campground, which is on the left.
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 37°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 24°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
Grizzly 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 →