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U.S. Forest Service · Giant Sequoia National Monument · CA

Hume Lake

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 9 mi

Wildfire

Land fire · 9.3 mi away · 20 acres · updated Oct 11, 2026

Wildfire

Wildfire Training fire · 23 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 15, 2026

Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 15, 2026

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 28 opens May 28.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
A night: $36–$71Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 6968 on recreation.gov

Photos · Jessica Gross

40 ftLongest rig

5,280 ftElevation

1,061 ftWater · Hume Lake

11.1 miNE of Squaw Valley, CA

37%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices

In the agency’s own words

Hume Lake Campground is a popular facility along Hume Lake, one of Sequoia National Forest's most visited destinations. The area offers seasonal recreational opportunities, including fishing, canoeing, hiking, biking, and swimming. Keep reading

Recreation

Hume Lake is a year-round recreation destination. During warmer months, visitors can enjoy fishing, non-motorized boating, hiking and mountain biking. During the winter, the area is popular for snowshoeing, cross country skiing and snowmobiling.

Facilities

The campground offers single and double-family campsites, some of which have views of Hume Lake. Foot trails lead to the lakeshore. Picnic tables and campfire rings are provided, as are flush toilets and drinking water.

Natural Features

The campground is situated among towering Incense Cedars and Ponderosa Pines on the northern end of Hume Lake, which was built to support a long-ago commercial logging operation. It once supplied water to the longest lumber flume transporting logs to the Central Valley. The elevation is 5,250 feet. Sequoia National Forest, located at the southern end of the Sierra Nevada in central California, is named for 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 and Grizzly Falls. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.

Nearby Attractions

Bearskin Grove offers the rare opportunity to photograph an entire mature sequoia in one frame. Hiking through the grove, visitors will find a mix of young and old sequoias, including about 50 trees that measure over 6 feet in diameter. Take Tenmile Road (Forest Road 13S09) to Forest Road 13S02, then 13S98 to enter the grove. Visitors enjoy making day trips to Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks and Giant Sequoia National Monument.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

This is black bear country; special food storage regulations are in effect and must be followed

Rule

Only non-motorized boats allowed on Hume Lake

Rule

Maximum of two vehicles allowed per single site, four per double sites

Everything else this campground posts · 6

Rule

No all-terrain or off-highway vehicle use in the campground

Rule

Click here to learn more about Sequoia National Forest

Rule

Camping fee does not include Park Entrance Fee

Rule

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.

Rule

Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle

Rule

Overnight camping fee includes 1 car or RV/Trailer with tow vehicle. There is an additional fee $8.00 for each vehicle per night of stay. If you have an extra vehicle, it must fit on the site parking spur.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 69 · 16 tent-only
Hookups: None
Longest rig: 35 ft
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 71 of 71 campsite records
Drinking water: Yes; WATER (SEASONAL) on 71 of 71 campsite records
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Waterfall, Lake, Creek; Backpacking; Birding; Fishing; Hiking; Kayaking; Mountain biking; Non-Motorized Boating; Off Road Vehicle Trails; Stargazing; Swimming; Water access; Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 694th darkest of 1,201 in CA: Bortle 3

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 68 of the 69 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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 28, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 28, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$36–$71plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$80–$150DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itRocky Mountain Recreation CompanyA private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Service (parent: ExplorUS)the operator link

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night, per site$36–$71

Standard Nonelectric$36

Tent Only Nonelectric$36

Standard Nonelectric-Double$71

These are next season’s rates, May 28, 2027 to Sep 25, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$44–$79

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$80–$150

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $36–$71 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

71 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 63 mapped sites

88 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most room009 167 ft007 132 ft024 129 ft052 121 ft033 117 ft

Least room061 66 ft063 66 ft055 69 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 71 records

63 of 71 records located

Standard49Tent only14

003 004 005 007 008 009 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 054 055 056 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 070 071 072 073

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

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Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 63 of the 71 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. 68 of the 71 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.


HUME LAKE	001	type not stated	24 ft			Flush Toilets (seasonal) listed
HUME LAKE	002	standard nonelectric	30 ft			Flush Toilets (seasonal) listed	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	003	standard nonelectric	20 ft	89 ft	1,110 ft	724 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	004	standard nonelectric	25 ft	89 ft	1,079 ft	736 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	005	standard nonelectric	25 ft	97 ft	1,235 ft	857 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	007	standard nonelectric	25 ft	132 ft	1,308 ft	968 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	008	tent only nonelectric	18 ft	97 ft	1,202 ft	792 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	009	standard nonelectric	28 ft	167 ft	1,219 ft	749 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	010 - Host Site	host pad	20 ft			Flush Toilets (seasonal) listed
HUME LAKE	011	standard nonelectric	25 ft			Flush Toilets (seasonal) listed	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	012 - Host Site	host pad	40 ft			Flush Toilets (seasonal) listed
HUME LAKE	013	standard nonelectric	28 ft	79 ft	624 ft	289 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	014	standard nonelectric	30 ft	70 ft	586 ft	400 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	015	standard nonelectric	30 ft	72 ft	557 ft	324 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	016	standard nonelectric	35 ft	70 ft	519 ft	394 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	017	standard nonelectric	20 ft	73 ft	538 ft	510 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	018	standard nonelectric	35 ft	73 ft	468 ft	505 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	019	standard nonelectric	30 ft	79 ft	500 ft	588 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	020	standard nonelectric	20 ft	73 ft	464 ft	658 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	021	standard nonelectric	30 ft	73 ft	398 ft	690 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	022	standard nonelectric	30 ft	84 ft	313 ft	673 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	023	standard nonelectric	30 ft	84 ft	260 ft	626 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	024	standard nonelectric	25 ft	129 ft	334 ft	496 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	025	standard nonelectric	25 ft			Flush Toilets (seasonal) listed	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	026	standard nonelectric	35 ft	93 ft	266 ft	445 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	027	standard nonelectric	35 ft	76 ft	341 ft	354 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	028	standard nonelectric	30 ft	107 ft	231 ft	414 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	029	standard nonelectric	30 ft	100 ft	240 ft	416 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	030	standard nonelectric	30 ft	81 ft	221 ft	380 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	031	standard nonelectric	30 ft	85 ft	312 ft	290 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	032	standard nonelectric	25 ft	81 ft	246 ft	327 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	033	standard nonelectric	15 ft	117 ft	390 ft	176 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	034	standard nonelectric	25 ft	88 ft	346 ft	219 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	035	tent only nonelectric	15 ft	88 ft	420 ft	186 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	036	standard nonelectric	25 ft	88 ft	462 ft	105 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	037	tent only nonelectric	20 ft	108 ft	529 ft	229 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	038	standard nonelectric	25 ft	108 ft	632 ft	290 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	039	standard nonelectric	28 ft	111 ft	729 ft	305 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	040	standard nonelectric	20 ft	116 ft	681 ft	155 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	041	tent only nonelectric	25 ft	110 ft	583 ft	144 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	042	standard nonelectric	35 ft	95 ft	362 ft	279 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	043	standard nonelectric	35 ft	76 ft	366 ft	291 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	044	standard nonelectric	35 ft	89 ft	744 ft	1,019 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	045	standard nonelectric	20 ft	85 ft	830 ft	1,002 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	046	standard nonelectric	22 ft	85 ft	875 ft	1,081 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	047	tent only nonelectric	18 ft	103 ft	934 ft	994 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	048	tent only nonelectric	20 ft	89 ft	964 ft	1,097 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	049	standard nonelectric	35 ft	97 ft	1,039 ft	1,061 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	050	standard nonelectric	18 ft	89 ft	981 ft	1,291 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	051	standard nonelectric	25 ft	89 ft	923 ft	1,205 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	052	tent only nonelectric	18 ft	121 ft	815 ft	1,219 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	053	tent only nonelectric	10 ft			Flush Toilets (seasonal) listed	$36
HUME LAKE	054	standard nonelectric	35 ft	69 ft	690 ft	1,215 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	055	standard nonelectric	35 ft	69 ft	665 ft	1,147 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	056	standard nonelectric	30 ft	69 ft	647 ft	1,079 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	058	tent only nonelectric	15 ft	72 ft	270 ft	1,257 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	059	standard nonelectric	25 ft	97 ft	324 ft	1,349 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	060	tent only nonelectric	25 ft	72 ft	212 ft	1,285 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	061	standard nonelectric	30 ft	66 ft	234 ft	1,309 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	062	tent only nonelectric	20 ft	74 ft	138 ft	1,274 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	063	standard nonelectric	30 ft	66 ft	169 ft	1,308 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	064	standard nonelectric	35 ft	84 ft	90 ft	1,338 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	065	tent only nonelectric	18 ft	86 ft	100 ft	1,083 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	066	standard nonelectric	25 ft	86 ft	151 ft	1,103 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	067	standard nonelectric	25 ft	76 ft	155 ft	978 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	068	standard nonelectric	20 ft	76 ft	221 ft	923 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	070	standard nonelectric	20 ft	88 ft	334 ft	918 ft	$36–$71
HUME LAKE	071	tent only nonelectric	20 ft	94 ft	315 ft	1,012 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	072	tent only nonelectric	20 ft	112 ft	418 ft	997 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	073	tent only nonelectric	15 ft	88 ft	419 ft	881 ft	$36
HUME LAKE	074 - District Managers campsite	tent only nonelectric	20 ft			Flush Toilets (seasonal) listed	$36

The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 71 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate36.79543, -118.90739

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone559-335-2232

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

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LandslideGiant Sequoia National Monument · 2.6 mi

Ten Mile Campground (CA)Giant Sequoia National Monument · 3.0 mi Convict Flat CampgroundSequoia National Forest · 4.4 mi

Getting there

From Fresno, take Highway 180 east to the Park Wye. Go left and continue on Highway 180, past Grant Grove for 12.25 miles. Turn right on Hume Road and continue 3 miles to Y intersection. Take the road to the left 0.5 mile to Hume Lake Campground entrance.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon73°Sunny

Tonight52°Clear

Saturday71°Sunny

Saturday Night51°Clear

NWS forecast for Wilsonia, CA

Source: National Weather Service, HNX forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Watch

Giant Sequoia National Monumentclimate, logging

Roadless

Kings River52,999 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

Agnew9,561 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

Monarch697 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 9, 2026

Who answers for this land

Hume Lake is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 68 of the 69 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 63 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.2 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 1,201 rated federal campgrounds in California · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Wilsonia, CA, 4.6 mi NNE (a census designated place). Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026