National Park Service · CA
Jedediah Smith Campground - Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
7Heads up4 park alerts · 3 fires, nearest 32 mi
Wildfire
West Side Rd 5565 fire · 32 mi away · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Tartar Gulch Rd fire · 37 mi away · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Crooks Creek Rd 3440 fire · 47 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Information
DeMartin Trail and Campground As part of CalTrans work to develop a new highway route that is more stable and safer, they will be undertaking geotechnical drilling this fall and winter. Hikers and campers in the area will likely see and hear heavy equipment at work and…
Caution
Prescribed Fire in the Bald Hills Area There will be smoke and firefighter activity from prescribed burns in the Bald Hills Area 10/22/2026 to 10/26/2026. There may be intermittent closures of the Lyon's Ranch Trail for prescribed burns during this period.
Caution
Delays along Highway 101 There are multiple traffic stops along Highway 101 from Orick, CA to Crescent City, CA due to road construction. Extra time may be needed to travel throughout the park. Delay times may vary. Please stay alert and drive cautiously.
Information
44 Creek Bridge Failure 44 creek bridge is closed due to damage identified by a Federal Highway inspection team. This bridge is north of 44 Camp, approximately 7 miles south of the Redwood Creek trailhead and about 1 mile north of the Tall Trees river crossing.…
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: all 86 sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 86All of them walk-up
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
Photos · NPS Photo
130 ftElevation
617 ftWater · Smith RiverOcean · 5.6 mi · to the Pacific Ocean
3.2 miNE of Bertsch-Oceanview, CA
67%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 605th darkest of 1,201 in CA
Open year-roundToday
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Situated in a magnificent old-growth redwood grove on the banks of the wild and scenic Smith River, this campground offers hiking trails, swimming, fishing, and seasonal campfire programs. Cabins available. From early October to mid-May, this campground switches to "First come, first served" sites. Head to campground kiosk upon arrival to check for availability.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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 · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
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 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate41.79573, -124.08645
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The phone1-800-444-7275
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near here
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Big Flat CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 12 miPatrick Creek CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 13 miNorth Fork CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 14 mi
Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park6.4 miPanther Flat CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 8.7 miGrassy Flat CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 11 miBig Flat CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 12 miPatrick Creek CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 13 miNorth Fork CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 14 miSource: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight46°Mostly Cloudy then Patchy Fog
Saturday68°Partly Sunny
Saturday Night47°Partly Cloudy
Sunday63°Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Hiouchi, CA
Source: National Weather Service, EKA forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 39°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
80°30°
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.
Measured at: CRESCENT CITY 3 NNW, CA (USC00042147), 7 miles away and 87 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Jedediah Smith Campground - Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now.
Season: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 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 · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Park 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: Hiouchi, CA, 0.2 mi W (a census designated place). Straight line.