Jones Valley Inlet West Dispersed Area (CA)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 212 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Jones Valley Inlet West Dispersed/Day Use Area is located on the Pit River Arm of Shasta Lake, it has trash and portable restrooms provided in season. This is a shoreline area and doesn't have designated sites. This Campground is on a First Come - First Serve Basis, vistors are required to physically be at the campground to purchase and claim a site. You must also occupy the area the day you pay for it, no advance payments. We encourage our visitors to download the recreation.gov app to take advantage of the Scan & Pay Option. There is also a Iron Ranger on site that you can pay with cash or check. Dispersed Area has no facilities and is pack in/pack out in winter months typically Mid September to Mid May - no fees are due during that time. Keep reading
Recreation
A public boat ramp is located approximately 1 mile away at Jones Valley (dependent on water level), but informal mooring is allowed if the water levels are sufficient. This area is popular for water skiing and jet skiing. Lake Shasta offers excellent fishing for trout, catfish, Chinook salmon, crappie, bluegill, white sturgeon, brown bullhead and bass.
Facilities
Provided trash service and portable toilets in season. This is a shoreline area with no formal sites.
Natural Features
Shasta-Trinity is the largest national forest in California with a diverse landscape encompassing five wilderness areas, hundreds of mountain lakes and 6,278 miles of streams and rivers. Lake Shasta sits at an elevation of 1,067 feet, with 365 miles of shoreline punctuated by steep mountains blanketed in manzanita and evergreens. A snow-capped Mount Shasta, the second-tallest mountain in the Cascade Range, looms in the distance. Wildlife is abundant in the area.
Nearby Attractions
There are several attractions in the area for a list of a few view our website: Local Attractions Charges & Cancellations Refunds for Check or Cash Purchases: Refunds for cash payments will be issued a check or cash refund. A refund will be processed within 30 days of receipt and approval. For cash or check refunds please call us at 530-275-8113. Please Note! Refund requests made during or after departure can only be processed when approved by the facility management staff based upon local policy. Refunds for Emergency Closures: In the event of an emergency closure the Recreation.gov will attempt to notify users and offer alternate dates and sites (as appropriate). If this is not possible, reservations will be canceled and all fees paid will be refunded. Refunds for Naturally Occurring Events: Refunds will not be issued for naturally occurring events like rain, snow, wind, smoke, extreme temperature, low lake level, etc. If you are requesting a refund for a walk-up site, please contact the host on-site or call us 530-275-8113. All refunds must be approved and issued through our office or processed though Recreation.gov.
What the agency tells you
Poison oak is abundant throughout the forest
Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit: Firewood Information
Please place trash inside cans and shut lid after use.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Trash and portable toilets provided in season
This area is vehicle specific and charges for each vehicle.
Wildlife is frequent in the area; all food must be kept in approved containers: Wildlife Info
If applicable, the holder of the Golden Pass must be present; Must bring card to the area
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 21
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Portable Toilets
- “…Facilities Provided trash service and portable toilets in season. This is a shoreline area with no formal…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Paddle Boating
- Paddling
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Tubing
- Water access
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:27 UTC
recreation.gov lists 2 of the 21 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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.
“Refunds for Check or Cash Purchases: Refunds for cash payments will be issued a check or cash refund. A refund will be processed within 30 days of receipt and approval. For cash or check refunds please call us at 530-275-8113. Please Note! Refund requests made during or after departure can only be processed when app…” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:27 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
42 records
All 42 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 21 of the 42 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Day Use | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 1 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 10 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 11 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 12 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 13 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 14 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 15 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 16 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 17 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 18 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 19 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 2 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 20 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 3 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 4 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 5 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 6 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 7 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 8 | day use | $10 |
| Day Use 9 | day use | $10 |
| Dispersed Camping | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 1 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 10 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 11 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 12 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 13 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 14 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 15 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 16 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 17 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 18 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 19 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 2 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 20 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 3 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 4 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 5 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 6 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 7 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 8 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Dispersed Camping 9 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
The agency files 21 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 42 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Jones Valley Inlet Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.0 mi
Lower Jones Valley (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.1 mi
Mariners Point Group CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.0 mi
Bailey CoveWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 5.7 mi
Bailey Cove CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 6.8 mi
Hirz BayWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 9.6 miJones Valley Inlet Dispersed Area is located 16 miles north of Redding from I-5.
Going Northbound I-5 exit at the Oasis Road exit. Take a right at the stop sign from the ramp follow road for about 3 miles. Turn right onto Bear Mountain Rd for about 5 miles, turn left at the stop sign to stay on Bear Mtn Rd. Turn right onto Jones Valley Rd follow to the dispersed area entrance on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Jones Valley, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Jones Valley Inlet West Dispersed Area (CA) 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.