Horse Flat Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 5 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $12From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
General Camping Info : Find helpful guidance and tips for an enjoyable trip to the forest! Know Fire & Other Restrictions Before You Go! : These conditions can affect your entire trip. For example, Extreme and Critical fire use restrictions mean no campfires and no portable cooking systems/stoves. Bring cold food and no S'mores. Be Bear Aware! : Bear safety is critical, for the safety of your group and/or you, as well as our bears. Help keep bears wild by following these tips. Overview: Horse Flats Campground offers 26 campsites with plentiful shade options. Keep reading
It also has accessible hiking opportunities such as the Silver Moccasin National Recreation Trail, some excellent areas for mountain bikers, and, as the name implies, equestrian resources that include four corrals and several more hitching posts. Elevation: 5,600 feet Amenities: A total of 26 campsites with picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets. No water available. Bouldering: Rock climbing is a 1-mile hike to the top of Mt. Hillyer. Hiking: The Silver Moccasin Trail is just a short walk away at thesouthwest side of the campground. Horse Corrals: There are 4 horse corrals and several hitching posts located at the west side of the campground. Fees: Camping Fees - $12 per night per site, $5 for extra vehicle. Campsites are first come - first served only. There is no way to reserve a campsite in advance. Day-Use Fees - Same as the camping fee. A Forest Service Adventure Pass or Interagency Pass is required for vehicles parked outside the campground RVs: Maximum RV length is 20 feet. No hook-ups available.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets. No water available. Bouldering: Rock climbing is a…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…and campfire rings. Vault toilets. No water available. Bouldering: Rock climbing is a 1-mile…”
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $12 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 8
What you actually pay
“Camping - $12 per night per site, $5 for extra vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($12), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 6
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
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the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 72°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Horse Flat Campground is in California’s 28th congressional district. Its representative, Judy Chu (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →