Holey Meadow
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 21 mi
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $34From, per site
- Sites
- 9All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 15 – October 15Open May 15 through October 15
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Sequoia National Forest, located at the southern end of the Sierra Nevada in central California, takes its name from the giant sequoia, the world's largest tree, which grows in more than 30 groves on the Forest's lower slopes. The Forest comprises about 1.1 million acres. Elevations range from about 1,000 to 12,000 feet, creating precipitous canyons and mountain streams with spectacular waterfalls such as Salmon Creek Falls near Fairview and Grizzly Falls on the Kings River. This remote campground is popular with hikers and people who want to tour the giant sequoias, including the Trail of a Hundred Giants. Keep reading
Recreation
Activities in this remote area include hiking and touring giant sequoias. Trails in the monument, open to hikers, horses and bikes, wind through giant sequoia groves, up mountains, and alongside wild rivers. Plenty of hiking is offered nearby, including a wheelchair-accessible nature trail, the Trail of a Hundred Giants.
Facilities
This campground accommodates tents only and has 10 individual campsites. It is primitive with no available water. Each campsite is equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring; vault toilets are available at the campground. This facility is operated by Rocky Mountain Recreation Company, a division of ExplorUS and comments are welcome; comment forms are available from campground hosts or online.
Natural Features
This primitive campground sits at an elevation of 6,400 feet southeast of Porterville, California, within the Giant Sequoia National Monument. It is a short drive to the the Trail of a Hundred Giants, through the Redwood or Long Meadow sequoia grove. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 455-6010.
Nearby Attractions
The Redwood and Long Meadow Sequoia groves and the Trail of a Hundred Giants are a short drive away.
What the agency tells you
This campground has no drinking water; visitors should bring their own supply
This is bear country; please take precautions and do not leave unattended food, garbage or other attractants. Use bear resistant food storage lockers or bear resistant trash cans where available. Visit www.sierrawild.gov/bears/food-storage/ for more information about food storage in bear country.
This is remote location, no nearby services
Everything else this campground posts · 7
This is a tent only facility
Off-road vehicles are not allowed
Bicycles are not allowed in nearby wilderness areas
Click here for more info about the Sequoia 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.
Please note: That this campground accepts CASH ONLY as payment for your First Come First Served site.
There is an extra vehicle fee of $8.00/night on the 2nd vehicle in each single campsite and on the 3rd & 4th vehicle in any double campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the 1st vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site. In the case of motorcycles, the 1st and 2nd are considered to be one vehicle and the 3rd and 4th are also considered to be one vehicle. So the fee would be a single $8.00/night of stay for the 3rd/4th motorcycle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9 · 9 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with a picnic table and campfire ring; vault toilets are available at the campground. This facility is…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, River, Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Hiking
- Night sky · 789th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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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
“There is an extra vehicle fee of $8.00/night on the 2nd vehicle in each single campsite and on the 3rd & 4th vehicle in any double campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the 1st vehicle by a hitch and tow…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $34 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
9 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 9 mapped sitesAll 9 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 9 of the 9 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 9 of the 9 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| HOLEY MEADOW | 01 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 610 ft | 676 ft | 1,081 ft | $34 |
| HOLEY MEADOW | 02 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 223 ft | 1,160 ft | 1,639 ft | $34 |
| HOLEY MEADOW | 03 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 182 ft | 1,321 ft | 1,578 ft | $34 |
| HOLEY MEADOW | 04 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 182 ft | 1,216 ft | 1,398 ft | $34 |
| HOLEY MEADOW | 05 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 169 ft | 1,307 ft | 198 ft | $34 |
| HOLEY MEADOW | 06 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 154 ft | 1,458 ft | 214 ft | $34 |
| HOLEY MEADOW | 07 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 154 ft | 1,587 ft | 191 ft | $34 |
| HOLEY MEADOW | 08 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 152 ft | 1,594 ft | 138 ft | $34 |
| HOLEY MEADOW | 09 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 152 ft | 1,486 ft | 122 ft | $34 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Redwood MeadowGiant Sequoia National Monument · 2.1 mi
Long Meadow GroupGiant Sequoia National Monument · 2.7 miLeavis Flat CampgroundGiant Sequoia National Monument · 6.0 mi
Fairview CampgroundSequoia National Forest · 7.4 mi
White River CampgroundGiant Sequoia National Monument · 7.5 mi
Brush Creek Dispersed CampingSequoia National Forest · 7.9 miFrom Highway 99, turn east on J22. Travel on J22 through California Hot Springs, then turn left at onto M50. After approximately 10 miles turn left at M107. The entrance to Holey Meadow Campground is on the left about a mile after the turn.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for California Hot Springs, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 59°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 31°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 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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Holey Meadow 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 →