Junction Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $23From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Located near the Tioga Pass entrance of Yosemite National Park, Junction Campground is at the junction of Highway 120 and Saddlebag Lake Road. Set among pines at 9,600 ft. elevation, most of the 13 campsites have shade. Sites 1-5 can accommodate RV's or multiple vehicles with a maxim parking length of 40 ft. Sites 6-13 are suitable for single vehicles that do not exceed 18ft. The narrow gravel campground road is not recommended for trailers or large vehicles beyond site 5. Each site has a table, fire ring, and a food storage locker. There are no water spigots, bring your own water. Dirt paths lead to vault toilets located near sites 3 and 10. Maximum of 6 people per site. 14 day limit.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…bring your own water. Dirt paths lead to vault toilets located near sites 3 and 10. Maximum of 6 people…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…fire ring, and a food storage locker. There are no water spigots, bring your own water. Dirt paths lead to…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fall color · reported 11 days ago, 21 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $23 with nothing added. 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 · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($23), 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
Saddlebag Lake Trailhead Group CampInyo National Forest · 2.1 miBig Bend CampgroundInyo National Forest · 2.8 miAspen CampgroundInyo National Forest · 3.6 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lee Vining, CA
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
Junction Campground is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →