Horton Creek Campground
1Heads up1 fire 39 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $12From, per site
- Sites
- 49All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Overview $12.00 per site per night. No reservations. Open May - October. Horton Creek Campground offers 49 RV/tent sites, with four pull-through trailer spaces, maximum recommended RV length is 30 feet. All sites include a fire pit, picnic table and a lantern holder. No hook-up. Potable water is available. Dump station fee is $12.00, no passes accepted. Closest amenities are 12 miles south in Bishop. Keep reading
Camping for a period longer than 14 days at any one campground, not to exceed 28 days per calendar year for all Bishop Field Office campgrounds, is prohibited without the written permission from the Field Office Manager. A California Campfire Permit is not required for fires within established fire rings in developed campgrounds. Seasonal fire restrictions may prohibit campfires during periods of high fire danger. Please check the BLM’s website for information on current fire restrictions or call the Bishop Field Office at (760) 872-5000. DIRECTIONS: Travel 8.5 miles north on U.S. Highway 395 from Bishop to Sawmill Road and turn left, take an immediate right onto South Round Valley Road and travel 3 miles, campground is on the left.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 49
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…table and a lantern holder. No hook-up. Potable water is available. Dump station fee is $12.00, no passes…”
- Dump station
- Yes
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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Every line of the receipt · 10
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($12), 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
49 sites
All 49 sites
| Horton Creek | 1 | standard nonelectric |
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| Horton Creek | 49 | standard nonelectric |
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| Horton Creek | 7 | standard nonelectric |
| Horton Creek | 8 | standard nonelectric |
| Horton Creek | 9 | standard nonelectric |
25 of 49 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Pleasant Valley Pit CampgroundBishop Field Office · 4.0 mi
Bitterbrush CampgroundInyo National Forest · 6.5 miBig Trees CampgroundInyo National Forest · 7.9 mi
Forks Campground (Inyo)Inyo National Forest · 8.6 mi
Four Jeffrey CampgroundInyo National Forest · 9.1 mi
Four JeffreyInyo National Forest · 9.1 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Round Valley, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 22°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
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
Horton Creek Campground is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →