Kaspian Campground
1Heads up1 fire 43 mi away
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 9All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – October 31Open May 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Kaspian Campground is located in a mature forest of pine trees overlooking the beautiful Lake Tahoe. Campers will be nestled in a sparse forest of pine trees and evergreen shrubs, just minutes from the bright blue water of Tahoe. The lake and its sandy beaches provides ample recreation opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Kaspian Campground is ideal for visitors planning a full day of biking around Lake Tahoe. Bike trails that traverse the western shores of the lake begin near the campground. Visitors enjoy water sports on the lake and relaxing on its sandy beaches.
Facilities
The campground offers multiple single-family sites for tent-only camping. Sites are equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Accessible flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a former picnic area, across the street from the lake. Campsites are spaced for privacy and surrounded by tall ponderosa pine and white fir trees. Some sites offer spectacular views of Lake Tahoe through the trees.
Nearby Attractions
Kaspian Campground is less than 10 miles from the popular Meeks Bay. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (530) 541-1537 for general information.
What the agency tells you
Please Note: One vehicle per single site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicles will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.
Bears frequent the area; use appropriate food containers
Forest Order No. 19-15-01: Prohibits camping for a combined total of no more than 14 days during a calendar year (January-December), forest-wide. Visitors may book campsites annually but the maximum stay may not exceed a total of 14 days each calendar year (January-December).
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Please keep boats clean, drained and dry, to avoid transport or introduction of aquatic invasive species
All campers must register with camp host
Off-road vehicles are prohibited in the campground
Limit of two pets per site; pets are not allowed on the beaches
Chainsaw use and hunting are prohibited in the area
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. For current fire conditions or weather closures click here Fire Restriction
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9 · 9 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…campfire rings with grills. Accessible flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with grills. Accessible flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Natural Features…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach, Coast
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 0.8 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
9 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 9 mapped sitesAll 9 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 9 of the 9 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 9 of the 9 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA KASPIAN CAMPGROUND | 001 | walk to | yes | 53 ft | 218 ft | 110 ft | $30 |
| AREA KASPIAN CAMPGROUND | 002 | walk to | yes | 41 ft | 204 ft | 162 ft | $30 |
| AREA KASPIAN CAMPGROUND | 003 | walk to | yes | 41 ft | 189 ft | 203 ft | $30 |
| AREA KASPIAN CAMPGROUND | 004 | walk to | 144 ft | 515 ft | 283 ft | $30 | |
| AREA KASPIAN CAMPGROUND | 005 | walk to | 144 ft | 658 ft | 418 ft | $30 | |
| AREA KASPIAN CAMPGROUND | 006 | walk to | 83 ft | 822 ft | 581 ft | $30 | |
| AREA KASPIAN CAMPGROUND | 007 | walk to | 83 ft | 810 ft | 581 ft | $30 | |
| AREA KASPIAN CAMPGROUND | 008 | walk to | 151 ft | 665 ft | 448 ft | $30 | |
| AREA KASPIAN CAMPGROUND | 009 | walk to | 152 ft | 514 ft | 298 ft | $30 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
William Kent CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 1.8 mi
Meeks Bay ResortEldorado National Forest · 5.5 mi
Silver Creek-TruckeeTahoe National Forest · 7.9 miPleasant CampgroundEldorado National Forest · 10 mi
Goose Meadows10 miUpper Hole CampgroundEldorado National Forest · 11 miThe campground is located 4 miles south of Tahoe City, on California Highway 89.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sunnyside-Tahoe City, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 59°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Kaspian 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 →