Grizzly Creek Campground (CA)
1Heads up1 fire 23 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 11 of the next 15 nights read 14:12 UTC
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Grizzly Creek campground is located near Bucks Lake in the northern Sierra Mountains on the Plumas National Forest. The Bucks Lake area offers year-round recreation activities including fishing, hiking, snowmobiling, skiing,snowshoeing and horseback riding. Keep reading
Recreation
Bucks Lake is a short drive away and provides fishing, boating, and canoeing. Hiking trails which provide access to the Bucks Lake Wilderness and the Pacific Crest Trail are also a short drive away.
Facilities
There are 11 total campsites suitable for RV and tent camping, standard non-electric sites. Each site has a fire ring and picnic table. There are vault toilets and a bear proof dumpster for garbage. No drinking water is available.
Natural Features
Grizzly Creek is set in fir and pine trees offering shade during the warm summer months. Situated at 5,500 feet in elevation, the campground is settled near Bucks Lake.
Nearby Attractions
Haskins Valley Store, Bucks Lake Resort, Lakeshore Resort, and the Bucks Lake Marina Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 283-0555.
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. Caution! Bears frequent the area; food must be kept in appropriate containers 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. America the Beautiful, Senior Passes, and Access Passes are accepted for single campsites. This campground does not have double sites or day use areas. Cell phone service is unreliable. Check- In is 2:00pm and Check-Out is Noon
Campground Map
No Burn Damage
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…a fire ring and picnic table. There are vault toilets and a bear proof dumpster for garbage. No drinking…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…and a bear proof dumpster for garbage. No drinking water is available. Natural Features Grizzly Creek is set…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Something open on 11 of the next 11 bookable nightsread 14:12 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBookedNot reservable
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.
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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, $25 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
recreation.gov availability, read 14:12 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 11 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. 11 of the 11 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.
| Grizzly Creek | 001 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 327 ft | $25 |
| Grizzly Creek | 002 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 317 ft | $25 |
| Grizzly Creek | 003 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 275 ft | $25 |
| Grizzly Creek | 004 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 214 ft | $25 |
| Grizzly Creek | 005 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 218 ft | $25 |
| Grizzly Creek | 006 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 171 ft | $25 |
| Grizzly Creek | 007 | standard nonelectric | 106 ft | 155 ft | $25 |
| Grizzly Creek | 008 | standard nonelectric | 122 ft | 53 ft | $25 |
| Grizzly Creek | 009 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 70 ft | $25 |
| Grizzly Creek | 010 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 163 ft | $25 |
| Grizzly Creek | 011 | standard nonelectric | $25 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
HutchinsPlumas National Forest · 1.2 miBucks Lake Recreation AreaPlumas National Forest · 2.0 mi
Sundew Campground (CA)Plumas National Forest · 2.3 miLower Bucks CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 2.4 mi
Mill Creek Campground (Plumas)Plumas National Forest · 3.4 mi
Whitehorse CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 3.8 miFrom Quincy: Take Oroville-Quincy Hwy (Bucks Lake Road) west. Turn right at the intersection of Bucks Lake Road and Big Creek Road. The campground will be on your right approximately one mile past Bucklin Road. If you have a large RV you will need to take Oroville-Quincy Hwy, turn left onto Big Creek Road. Follow road to the campground.
From Oroville: Take Oroville-Quincy Hwy 162 East. The campground will be on your right before reaching Bucklin Road..
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bucks Lake, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 25°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
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
Grizzly Creek Campground (CA) 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 →