Hidden Horse Equestrian Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 2 of the next 2 nights; a database flag says not open read 15:49 UTC
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 6All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Hidden Horse Equestrian Campground is located at the Southern edge of the Klamath National Forest on the South Fork of the Salmon River. Offering a total of six equestrian sites, only one of these sites, #6, is available for reservation. Keep reading
Recreation
The Hidden Horse Equestrian Campground is adjacent to the Trinity Alps Wilderness, Russian Wilderness and the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. From this site, you can ride to three trailheads that access several wilderness lakes and countless miles of trails.
Facilities
Campsite #6 offers pull-through parking and four iron horse corrals measuring 12' x 12'.
Natural Features
The Klamath National Forest encompasses nearly 2 million acres of land straddling the California and Oregon border. The Klamath is a vast array of mountains, streams, lakes, and, at elevations ranging from 450 to 8,900 feet, is home to diverse plant life and nearly 400 animal species. The partially shaded campground sits at an elevation of 5,800 feet.
Nearby Attractions
Trinity Alps Wilderness, Russian Wilderness and the Pacific Crest Trail all are nearby and offer hiking and horseback riding opportunities.
What the agency tells you
No RV hookups available
Please bring your own buckets for watering
Dogs must be leashed
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing organisms by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 6 · 6 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 6
- Pets
- Not allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
1 of 1 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:49 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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, $10 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 15:49 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
6 sites · the site map
All 6 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. 6 of the 6 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Hidden Horse Equestrian Campground | 001 | equestrian nonelectric | yes | $10 | |
| Hidden Horse Equestrian Campground | 002 | equestrian nonelectric | yes | $10 | |
| Hidden Horse Equestrian Campground | 003 | equestrian nonelectric | yes | $10 | |
| Hidden Horse Equestrian Campground | 004 | equestrian nonelectric | yes | $10 | |
| Hidden Horse Equestrian Campground | 005 | equestrian nonelectric | yes | $10 | |
| HIDDEN HORSE EQUESTRIAN CAMPGROUND | 006 | equestrian nonelectric | yes | 257 ft | $10 |
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
Carter Meadows Horse GroupKlamath National Forest · 0.2 miShadow Creek CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 8.3 miBig Flat CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 11 miGoldfield Campground11 miIdlewild CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 11 miEast Fork CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 11 miFrom Callahan, CA, take County Road 93 west towards Cecilville. Drive 12 miles and turn left at the sign for Hidden Horse and Carter Meadows. Hidden Horse is less than 2 miles down the road, on your left.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Coffee Creek, CA
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
Hidden Horse Equestrian 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.