Letts Lake Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 30 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $6From, per site
- Sites
- 4542 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Once on-site, you are able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. In order to utilize Scan & Pay on site, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Keep reading
Recreation
The main feature of the area is a 35-acre lake for non-motorized vessels, trout fishing and swimming. A one-mile accesible trail leads along the lake shore. There are accessible restrooms and a popular fully-accessible fishing pier.
Facilities
42 campsites equipped with toilets, tables, fire rings, and water system ( only during summer months). Access road and camps suitable for up to 30 foot camping trailers. Trash service only avaliable during summer months.
Natural Features
There is a 35-acre lake filled with trout located within a mixed conifer stand. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 963-3128.
Nearby Attractions
Across the lake is Big Springs Picnic Area.
What the agency tells you
Leave No Trace: Pack out all trash garbage, including food scraps.
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.
OHV riding is not allowed in the campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 45
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Facilities 42 campsites equipped with toilets, tables, fire rings, and water system ( only during summer months).”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Paddling
- Picnicking
- Swimming
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:34 UTC
recreation.gov lists 42 of the 45 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.
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, $6 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
45 sites · the site map
All 45 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 45 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. 42 of the 45 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Main Letts | 01 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 02 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 03 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 04 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 05 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 06 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 07 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 08 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 09 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 10 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 11 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 12 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 13 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 14 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 15 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 16 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 17 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Main Letts | 18 | standard nonelectric | 450 ft | 257 ft | $6 |
| Saddle Camp Loop | 19 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Saddle Camp Loop | 20 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Saddle Camp Loop | 21 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Saddle Camp Loop | 22 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Saddle Camp Loop | 23 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Saddle Camp Loop | 24 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Saddle Camp Loop | 25 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Saddle Camp Loop | 26 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Saddle Camp Loop | 27 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | type not stated | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 4 | type not stated | |||
| Spillway Loop | 34 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Spillway Loop | 35 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Spillway Loop | 36 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Spillway Loop | 37 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Spillway Loop | 38 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Spillway Loop | 39 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Spillway Loop | 40 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Spillway Loop | 41 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Spillway Loop | 42 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Stirrup Loop | 28 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Stirrup Loop | 29 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Stirrup Loop | 30 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Stirrup Loop | 31 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Stirrup Loop | 32 | standard nonelectric | $6 | ||
| Stirrup Loop | 33 | standard nonelectric | $6 |
25 of 45 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Mill Valley CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 1.1 mi
Dixie Glade CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 2.3 miCedar Camp CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 2.7 miOld Mill CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 3.4 mi
Mill Creek - Mendocino National ForestMendocino National Forest · 4.6 miMill Creek CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 4.6 miLocated 19 miles west of Stonyford.
The weather
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
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
Letts 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.