Grouse Valley Cabins
1Heads up1 fire 27 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 32 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Overview ***Grouse Valley is closed for rehabilitation through at least the 2022 and 2023 seasons*** Grouse Valley is located in the Giant Sequoia National Monument within Sequoia National Forest. The facility is a complex of two cabins; the Lakeside Cabin and the Hillside Cabin. The Lakeside Cabin is the largest of the two and can accommodate up to 12 people. The Hillside Cabin accommodate up to 10 people. The property is nestled in an open scenic valley, which contains two lakes surrounded by pine and oak trees and a few small fruit and nut orchards. The serenity and open space provided at Upper Grouse presents visitors with a rare opportunity to enjoy the Sequoia National Forest apart from the traditional campground experience. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors are invited to fish, canoe, and hike around the lakes on the property. All California Department of Fish and Game and U.S. Forest Service regulations apply. There is a barn, hay shed, a pasture adjacent tot he Caretaker's Cabin, and horse corrals for visitors who choose to bring their horses to ride.
Facilities
The 1,550 square foot Lakeside Cabin is two-story log cabin with an 8-foot covered deck on three sides. The 1,400 square foot Hillside Cabin is also a log cabin with an 8-foot deck on three sides. The cabins include a full kitchen, living and dining areas, full baths (the large house has two full baths) and large areas for bunks/beds. Additional amenities include hot showers, electricity, laundry facilities, and grills. If you plan on using the grill on the porch please bring your own charcoal briquettes. Cabin users should also provide linens, pillows, blankets, towels, toiletries, toilet paper, food and trash bags. Firewood can be purchased from local stores in Springville.
Natural Features
The Upper Grouse Valley is approximately a fifty minute drive north of Springville, California, at an elevation of around 4,800 feet. Vegetation on the property includes riparian, mixed conifer (ponderosa pine, incense cedar, and white fir), and fruit orchards. The property has a lower and an upper man-made lake. At 4,800 feet elevation, visitors need to be prepared for a variety of weather including warm afternoons, chilly nights and afternoon thunderstorms. It is also not unusual to experience a dusting of snow during the early spring and later fall months. The land surrounding the cabins is open to the public who must walk-in so other visitors may be in the vicinity during your stay.
What the agency tells you
Persons holding the reservations must be at least 18 years of age and accompany the group
No walk-ins available at this facility
The cabin must be vacated in clean condition; this includes the cleaning of all dishes, utensils, floors, and the disposal of trash off site (you must take your trash with you for proper disposal)
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Pets are not allowed inside the cabin
No camping equipment (tents, RV's, motor homes, pop ups, trailers etc.) allowed at the cabins
Smoking is prohibited within the cabin; smoking must be within enclosed vehicles or in an area cleared of all flammable materials
Fireworks are prohibited
There is a four vehicle limit on parking at the cabin; RVs not allowed
Motorized vehicles are allowed only on the main road; off-road vehicle use at the facility is not permitted in the Sequoia National Monument
Click here for more information on the Sequoia National Forest and Giant Sequoia National Monument
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
- 3 · 2 cabin
- Hookups
- 2 electric
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Not allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- Toilet on all 3 of this campground's campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- Shower/Bath Type states a shower on all 3 of this campground's campsite records
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 6 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 895th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:09 UTC
recreation.gov lists 2 of the 3 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:09 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
3 sites · the site map
All 3 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. 2 of the 3 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| GROUSE VALLEY | Caretakers Cabin | type not stated | 20 ft | 50 amp | 1,284 ft | |
| GROUSE VALLEY | Hillside Cabin | cabin electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 755 ft | $175–$250 |
| GROUSE VALLEY | Lakeside Cabin | cabin electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 1,344 ft | $175–$250 |
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
South Fork CampgroundSequoia National Park · 4.2 miAuxiliary DamSequoia National Park · 9.4 miChamise Flat Dispersed CampgroundSequoia National Park · 9.4 miOld Goldledge CampgroundSequoia National Park · 9.4 miSouth Fork RecSequoia National Park · 9.4 mi
Horse Creek10 miThe county road from Springville to the cabins is narrow with many sharp turns, and vehicles over 22 feet are not advised.
Take Highway 190 east from Porterville to Springville. After passing through Springville, take a left on Balch Park Road. Drive approximately 10.5 miles, then turn left onto Blue Ridge Dr./Co Route 276/Mtn Rd 276. Travel 6 miles to arrive at the Upper Grouse Valley Area on the right.
Go through the gate and close and lock the gate behind you. Travel down the black-top paved road to the right, continue the same direction on the dirt road approximately a mile. The cabins will on your left through another gate, which should also be closed and locked upon entry.
The Caretakers Cabin is located on the left immediately after the second gate. The Hillside Cabin is located on the right immediately after the second gate. The Lakeside Cabin is located at the end of the cabin driveway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Three Rivers, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 81°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 29°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Grouse Valley Cabins is in California’s 20th congressional district. Its representative, Vince Fong (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →