Hayward Flat
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $30–$60Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 8684 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 18 – September 15Open May 18 through September 15
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hayward Flat is one of the most popular campgrounds on Trinity Lake, offering excellent lake access and plenty of shade from Ponderosa pines and Douglas firs. Located on one of the best arms of the lake for water skiing, Hayward is favored by visitors interested in water sports. Relics from the area's Placer mining history are scattered throughout the campground, with interpretive signs providing explanations. Keep reading
Recreation
A boat ramp and marina are located 3 miles away, but mooring may be available at the campground. Popular activities include power and non-motorized boating, fishing, swimming and water skiing. Anglers can fish for catfish, as well as a variety of bass, trout and salmon.
Facilities
The 98-unit family campground is comprised of 5 loops. The Dogwood and Elderberry loops provide lake views and informal mooring for boats. Every campsite has a paved spur, table and campfire ring. Most campsites also provide a bear-proof food storage locker. Additional amenities include flush toilets and drinking water. The site also offers an amphitheater with educational interpretive programs offered seasonally. Program dates and times will be posted at the campground.
Natural Features
The Shasta-Trinity is the largest national forest in California with a diverse landscape ranging from 1,000 to 14,162 feet. The 2.1 million acre forest encompasses five wilderness areas, hundreds of mountain lakes and 6,278 miles of streams and rivers. Trinity Lake sits at an elevation of 2,370 feet and is surrounded by the Trinity Alps. Black bears are frequently spotted in the area, as well as bobcats, mountain lions and a variety of bird species.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby town of Weaverville is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This former mining town offers restaurants, shopping and self-guided walking tours.
What the agency tells you
First-come, first-served sites are available
Maximum trailer size is 40 feet
Only one vehicle included in cost of single capacity site; Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Only two vehicles included in cost of a double capacity site; Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.
Due to bears in the area, all food must be kept in approved containers
Click here for further information on this campground
Click here for more information about Shasta-Trinity 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.
Swimming Beach by the Elderberry Loop
Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out time 2 P.M.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 86
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…locker. Additional amenities include flush toilets and drinking water. The site also offers an…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…amenities include flush toilets and drinking water. The site also offers an amphitheater with…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Ranger programs
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 281st darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 84 of the 86 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 · 27
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$60 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
109 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 81 mapped sitesAll 109 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. 86 of the 109 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX | unnamed record | 35 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX1 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX10 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX11 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX12 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX13 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX14 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX15 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX16 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX17 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX18 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX19 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX2 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX20 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX21 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX22 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX3 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX4 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX5 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX6 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX7 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX8 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| AREA HAYWARD FLAT | XXX9 | unnamed record | $30–$60 | |||
| Buckeye | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| Buckeye | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 125 ft | 555 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 382 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 82 ft | 292 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 019 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 86 ft | 280 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 020 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 82 ft | 211 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 022 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 157 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Buckeye | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 172 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 73 ft | 101 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 73 ft | 170 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 026 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 66 ft | 258 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 66 ft | 324 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 028 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 103 ft | 230 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 029 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 323 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 030 | standard nonelectric | 137 ft | 380 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Buckeye | 031 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 137 ft | 515 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 032 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 94 ft | 431 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 033 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 95 ft | 557 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 034 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 599 ft | $30–$60 |
| Buckeye | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 473 ft | $30–$60 |
| Chinquapin | 036 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 639 ft | $30–$60 |
| Chinquapin | 037 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 639 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Chinquapin | 038 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 508 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Chinquapin | 039 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 583 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Chinquapin | 040 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 491 ft | $30–$60 |
| Chinquapin | 041 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| Chinquapin | 042 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 500 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Chinquapin | 043 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 493 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Chinquapin | 044 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 547 ft | $30–$60 |
| Chinquapin | 046 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 81 ft | 458 ft | $30–$60 |
| Chinquapin | 047 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 388 ft | $30–$60 |
| Chinquapin | 048 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 108 ft | 303 ft | $30–$60 |
| Chinquapin | 049 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 108 ft | 385 ft | $30–$60 |
| Chinquapin | 050 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 122 ft | 322 ft | $30–$60 |
| Chinquapin | 051 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 109 ft | 405 ft | $30–$60 |
| Chinquapin | 052 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 515 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Chinquapin | 053 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 507 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Chinquapin | 054 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 74 ft | 589 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 055 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 99 ft | 258 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 057 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 61 ft | 201 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 059 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 86 ft | 293 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 060 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 67 ft | 210 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 061 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 312 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 062 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 222 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 063 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 103 ft | 157 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 064 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 87 ft | 222 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 065 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 71 ft | 136 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 066 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 71 ft | 174 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 067 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 82 ft | 94 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 068 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 85 ft | 74 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 069 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 85 ft | 59 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 070 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 63 ft | 181 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 071 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 187 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 072 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 63 ft | 244 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 073 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 300 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 074 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 90 ft | 410 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 075 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 418 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 076 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 71 ft | 470 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 077 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 81 ft | 465 ft | $30–$60 |
| Dogwood | 079 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 61 ft | 357 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 080 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| Elderberry | 081 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 97 ft | 377 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 082 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 439 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 083 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 53 ft | 479 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 084 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 449 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Elderberry | 085 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 106 ft | 546 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 086 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 106 ft | 598 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 087 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 109 ft | 370 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 088 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 125 ft | 546 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 089 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 96 ft | 349 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 090 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 96 ft | 428 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 091 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 305 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 092 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 80 ft | 271 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 093 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 89 ft | 314 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 094 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 116 ft | 428 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 095 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 106 ft | 304 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 096 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 56 ft | 410 ft | $30–$60 |
| Elderberry | 097 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 296 ft | $30–$60 |
| MULT | 021M | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 145 ft | $30–$60 |
| MULT | 045M | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 74 ft | 480 ft | $30–$60 |
| MULT | 056M | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 61 ft | 299 ft | $30–$60 |
| MULT | 058M | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 61 ft | 184 ft | $30–$60 |
| MULT | 078M | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 121 ft | 435 ft | $30–$60 |
| MULT | 098M | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 269 ft | $30–$60 |
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 35 ft | $30–$60 |
The agency files 23 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 109 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Alpine View CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.9 miMariners Roost Boat-In CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.4 miRidgeville Boat-In CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.4 miCaptains Point Boat-In CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.5 miClark Springs CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.6 mi
Minersville CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.7 miFrom Redding, CA: Go west on Highway 299 to Weaverville, then north on Highway 3 for 15 miles. Turn right at Hayward sign and travel approximately 2 miles to campground entrance.
From Eureka, CA: Go east on Highway 299 to Weaverville, then north on Highway 3 for 15 miles. Turn right at Hayward sign and travel approximately 2 miles to campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Trinity Center, CA
Typical weather
Typical May night 44°F, day 77°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 44°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Hayward Flat 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 →