Indian Scotty Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 40 mi
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 1 of the next 3 nights; a database flag says not open read 16:27 UTC
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 28All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Indian Scotty Group Site is located next to the Wild and Scenic Scott River in Klamath National Forest. Visitors enjoy swimming, tubing, whitewater boating. and fishing on the river. Several trailheads for the Marble Mountains Wilderness are nearby. Keep reading
Recreation
During summer, when flows in the Scott River are low, campers can fish, swim, or go tubing in the river. During the higher flows of spring, the Scott River offers class IV-V whitewater runs through the Scott River canyon. Several Marble Mountain Wilderness trailheads are easily accessed from the camground, including Boulder, Kelsey, and Lovers Camp.
Facilities
Indian Scotty is set in an open grassy area surrounded by trees. The site is particularly suited for RVs up to 30 feet in length because of its configuration. Some campsites have views of the river. A campfire circle and grill are provided. A playground is available on-site.
Natural Features
The riverside group site sits in a forest of cedar, Douglas fir and Pondarosa pine at an elevation of 2,400 feet. Mount Shasta, not part of the Klamath, is visible from some areas within the compound. The Klamath National Forest encompasses nearly 2 million acres of land straddling the California and Oregon border. The Klamath encompasses a vast array of mountains, streams and lakes and, at elevations ranging from 450 to 8,900 feet, is home to diverse plant life and nearly 400 animal species.
What the agency tells you
This is bear country; all food must be kept in approved containers
Reservations are required; no walk-ins allowed
No pack stock permitted
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Call the Salmon-Scott River Ranger District at 530-468-5351 for more information
Click here to learn more about the Klamath 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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 28 · 2 walk-in, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Whitewater rafting
Something open on 1 of the next 1 bookable nightsread 16:27 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBookedNot reservable
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 · 13
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 16:27 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
28 sites · the site map
All 28 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. 28 of the 28 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| 1 | 001 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 1 | 002 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 1 | 003 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 1 | 004 | walk to | $10 | |
| 1 | 005 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 1 | 006 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 1 | 007 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 1 | 008 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 1 | 009 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 1 | 010 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 1 | 011 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 1 | 012 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 013 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 014 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 015 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 016 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 017 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 018 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 019 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 021 | walk to | $10 | |
| 2 | 022 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 023 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 024 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 025 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 026 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 027 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| 2 | 028 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| AREA INDIAN SCOTTY GROUP SITE | 001 | group standard area nonelectric | 164 ft | $50 |
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.
25 of 28 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sarah Totten Campground11 miNorcross CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 12 miONeil Creek CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 12 miSulphur Springs CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 13 mi
Grider Creek CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 14 miTake I-5 to Yreka, CA. Take the south Yreka exit for Highway 3 to Fort Jones for 18 miles. Turn right (west) on Scott River Road, between the Forest Service Office and grocery store, and go approximately 14 miles. At the Indian Scotty Campground sign, turn left (south) on the 44N45 Road and cross the Scott River. Go approximately 300 feet and turn right on the 44N53 Road toward the campground. Go past the campground entrance and next campground loop to the group site entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Greenview, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 27°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
Indian Scotty 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.