Jackass Springs Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Located approximately 34 miles north of Weaverville on State Hwy 3, this campground offers 10 campsites that can accommodate up to a 32' trailer. There is no piped water.
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “There is no piped water.”
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. 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 · 4
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, 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 · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Preacher Meadow (CA)Shasta National Forest · 3.6 mi
Clear Creek Campground4.5 mi
Alpine View CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 7.5 miCaptains Point Boat-In CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 7.6 mi
Hayward FlatWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 8.3 miMariners Roost Boat-In CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 10 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Trinity Center, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 32°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
Jackass Springs Campground is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →