Leavitt Meadows
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $28From, per site
- Sites
- 16All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Leavitt Meadows campground is nestled amidst Jeffrey Pines alongside the West Walker River. Nearby Leavitt Meadows Trailhead is the starting point for a horse or foot trail along the West Walker River into an area of lake-filled basins. Many climbers use this trail to approach Tower Peak, which offers both technical climbs and scrambles. Campground elevation is 7800. Keep reading
Recreation
Leavitt Meadows campground is popular for fishing, hiking, and backpacking. The campground sits along a scenic river in an open meadow area. It's positioned at a trailhead that serves as a gateway to the wilderness areas of the eastern Sierra Nevada. The location offers easy access to multiple hiking trails while providing the convenience of developed camping facilities with running water and restrooms. Its riverside setting makes it popular for both overnight camping and as a starting point for backcountry adventures. Flyfishing is often popular in the river.
Facilities
The Leavitt Meadows campground has small RV (less than 24 feet in length) and tent friendly sites. All sites offer picnic tables, campfire rings, and food storage lockers. The campground has vault toilets, drinking water, and garbage service. Firewood is available for purchase from the host.
Natural Features
Leavitt Meadows is at an elevation of 7200 feet.
What the agency tells you
Leavitt Meadows Campground is nestled amidst Jeffrey Pines alongside the West Walker River. Nearby Leavitt Meadows Trailhead is the starting point for a horse or foot trail along the West Walker River into an area of lake-filled basins. Many climbers use this trail to approach Tower Peak, which offers both technical climbs and scrambles. Campground elevation is 7800. Season is mid May to mid September. Campground offers primitive sites with picnic tables and fire rings. Vault toilets, garbage collection, and drinking water available at the campground. Sites are first come first serve and suitable for tent camping and small rigs (no larger than 24 ft). Firewood is available to purchase from the camphost.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 16
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…food storage lockers. The campground has vault toilets, drinking water, and garbage service. Firewood is…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…The campground has vault toilets, drinking water, and garbage service. Firewood is available for…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Meadow
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 29 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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $28 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
16 sites
All 16 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. 16 of the 16 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Leavitt Meadows | 10 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 11 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 12 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 13 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 14 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 15 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 16 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 17 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 2 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 3 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 4 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 5 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 6 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 7 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 8 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
| Leavitt Meadows | 9 | standard nonelectric | $28 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sonora BridgeToiyabe National Forest · 4.4 mi
ObsidianToiyabe National Forest · 6.3 mi
Chris FlatToiyabe National Forest · 6.6 mi
BootlegToiyabe National Forest · 7.8 miDeadman CampgroundStanislaus National Forest · 11 miBaker CampgroundStanislaus National Forest · 11 mi1. From Highway 395 south in Bridgeport, drive approximately 17 miles to Highway 108 Sonora Junction.
2. Turn left on Highway 108 and go approximately six miles. The campground is on left hand side of highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Walker, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 24°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 10°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
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
Leavitt Meadows 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 →