Juanita Lake Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 2 of the next 2 nights read 15:34 UTC
- A night
- $15–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2322 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Juanita Lake campground offers 23 campsites adjacent to Juanita Lake on the Klamath National Forest. The lake offers a unique combination of recreation opportunities including many water-based activities like fishing and swimming. Site map located in photo stream above. Currently, there is non-potable water available for use. Keep reading
Recreation
The 55 acre Juanita Lake is excellent for small rowboats, rafts, and canoes. There is a paved boat launch ramp, a dock in the summer, and fish cleaning station. No motors are permitted on the lake. The lake is regularly stocked with trout and has a bass and catfish population. Those wanting to explore will enjoy the 1.5 mile paved, barrier free trail that circles the lake with two fishing jetties for easy lake access. For the more ambitious hiker, there is a 6 mile hike with a 2,700 foot elevation gain climbing up to Ball Mountain Lookout. Visitors interested in cooling off will delight in a swim or simply wading and water-play from the shoreline.
Facilities
The main campground offers 23 campsites with parking areas, picnic tables, campfire rings, grills, bear-proof trash cans, and vault toilets. All camp/tent areas have views of the lake. Two vehicles allowed per campsite including trailers.
Natural Features
The partially shaded campground sits at an altitude of 5,130 feet and is located on the shores of Juanita Lake surrounded by a ponderosa pine forest. The lake is a favorite bird watching area with bald eagles and osprey regularly fishing the lake. Sit among the pines and fish or watch a diverse array of wildlife that uses the area.
Nearby Attractions
The Butte Valley Wildlife Area is within four miles.
What the agency tells you
Dogs on leash
No off-highway vehicle use in the campground
Fire wood: anything dead and down may be gathered for campfires (no chainsaws)
Everything else this campground posts · 4
There is limited RV parking.
For more information call the Goosenest Ranger District at 530-398-4391 or visit 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 .
This is bear country; all food must be properly stored in approved containers.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 23
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…grills, bear-proof trash cans, and vault toilets. All camp/tent areas have views of the lake. Two…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
34 of 44 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:34 UTC
recreation.gov lists 22 of the 23 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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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 rates for this season, $15–$20 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 15:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
23 sites
All 23 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. 22 of the 23 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 1 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 11 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 12 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 13 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 14 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 15 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 16 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 17 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 18 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 19 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 2 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 20 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 21 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 22 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 23 | type not stated | |
| A | 3 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 4 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 5 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 6 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 7 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 8 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
| A | 9 | standard nonelectric | $15–$20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Juanita Lake Group CampsiteKlamath National Forest · 0.1 miMartins Dairy CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 4.4 miShafter CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 11 miOrr Lake CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 13 miStatelineRedding Field Office · 13 miKlamath River CampgroundLakeview Klamath Falls Field Office · 17 miFrom I-5 at Weed, CA travel northeast on State Hwy 97 approximately 35 miles to Ball Mtn Road. Turn west (left) on Ball Mtn Road and go approximately 4 miles to Forest Service Road 46N04. Turn right on 46N04 and continue to Juanita Lake and campground.
From the north, traveling south on Hwy 97, turn west (right) approximately 3.8 miles south of the town of Macdoel on the Ball Mtn. Road. Travel approximately 4 miles to Forest Service Road 46N04. Turn right on 46N04 and continue to Juanita Lake and campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Macdoel, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 23°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Juanita Lake 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.