Little Beaver A Campground
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- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:57 UTC
- A night
- $23–$25When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 119In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Little Beaver Campground is located on the south-eastern shore of Little Grass Valley Reservoir, approximately four miles from the town of La Porte, CA. This campground is the largest campground at the reservoir and is adjacent to a swimming beach, boat launch ramp, amphitheater, and Lakeshore Trail. Keep reading
Recreation
Little Grass Valley Recreation Area offers opportunities for many recreation experiences. Three boat launch ramps provide access to the water for fishing, water-skiing, sailing, or simply touring on boats. There is a wheel chair accessible fishing ramp at the dam. Two beaches provide excellent swimming and picnicking opportunities - one of which is located adjacent to the Little Beaver Campground. The Lakeshore Trail (13.5 miles) winds around the entire lake and is open for hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking. Additional hiking trails abound in the area and include the nearby Pacific Crest Trail. Visitors may also enjoy watching wildlife, campfire programs, or exploring nearby historic gold mining towns.
Facilities
The facility offers 120 campsites, flush toilets, and drinking water. Each campsite has a picnic table and campfire ring. For RVs, a dump station and drinking water are available within one mile. For visitors wanting to experience the lake first-hand, a boat launch and beach day-use area are adjacent to the facility.
Natural Features
Located along a beautiful lakeshore and forested setting near a year-round creek, the area offers scenic views of the lake and Bald Mountain. Surrounding the facility, visitors may observe such wildlife as Osprey, bald eagles and other species of birds along with deer, bear, fisher and other mammals. Interesting geologic formations are also nearby.
Nearby Attractions
History buffs will enjoy the area's old mining sites, towns and cemeteries -- all within 10 miles for exploration and discovery. The town of La Porte is within four miles and has restaurants, groceries and gasoline.
Charges & Cancellations
Premium Lakeside sites are $25/site per night.
What the agency tells you
The facility is open from approximately Memorial Day through Labor Day, but is subject to delayed opening or early closing due to snow.
The facility is located at approximately 5,000 feet in elevation; summer evenings may be cold, especially early and late in the season.
The area has very poor cell phone coverage, communications may be challenging.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
The nearest pay phone is located at the La Porte Store four miles away.
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
- 119
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 85 of 117 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 114 of 119 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 118 of 119 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Water sports
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:57 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
“Premium Lakeside sites are $25/site per night.” · this campground’s own terms
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Little Beaver A Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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- Legacy CampgroundLassen National Forest · 34 mi · walk-up
- Potato Patch CampgroundLassen National Forest · 42 mi · walk-up
recreation.gov availability, read 16:57 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
119 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 119 mapped sitesAll 119 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. 119 of the 119 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Loop A | 001 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 368 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 002 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 414 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 003 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 430 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 004 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 462 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 005 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 389 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 006 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 471 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 007 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 384 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 008 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 451 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 009 | standard nonelectric | 114 ft | 336 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 010 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 436 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 011 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 361 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 012 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 488 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 013 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 438 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 014 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 535 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 015 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 426 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 016 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 543 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 017 | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 463 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 018 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | 342 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 019 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 380 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 020 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 256 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 021 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 364 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 022 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 242 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 023 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 231 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 024 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 231 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 025 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 154 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 026 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 225 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 027 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 134 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 028 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 141 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 029 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 246 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 030 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 187 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 031 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 297 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 032 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 250 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 033 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 371 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 034 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 359 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 035 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 316 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 036 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 316 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 037 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 260 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 038 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 238 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 039 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 188 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 040 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 200 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop A | 041 | standard nonelectric | 104 ft | 292 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 042 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 409 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 043 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 381 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 044 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 481 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 045 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 444 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 046 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 512 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 047 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 561 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 048 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 659 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 049 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 657 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 050 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 736 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 051 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 787 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 052 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 801 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 053 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 827 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 054 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 851 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 055 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 870 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 056 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 915 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 057 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 898 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 058 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 967 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 059 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 993 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 060 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 948 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 061 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 998 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 062 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 893 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 063 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 834 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 064 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 850 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 065 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 685 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 066 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 748 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 067 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 672 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 068 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 690 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 069 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 756 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 070 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 799 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 071 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 727 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 072 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 779 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 073 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 615 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 074 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 631 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 075 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 552 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 076 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 567 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 077 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 491 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 078 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 460 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop B | 079 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 411 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 080 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 771 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 081 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 840 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 082 | standard nonelectric | 112 ft | 828 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 083 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 923 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 084 | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 1,015 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 085 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 897 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 086 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 1,065 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 087 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 1,113 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 088 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 1,110 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 089 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 1,091 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 090 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 1,040 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 091 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 1,060 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 092 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 980 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 093 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 898 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 094 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 981 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 095 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 889 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 096 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 999 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 097 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 939 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 098 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 1,010 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 099 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 1,097 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 100 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 1,124 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 101 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 1,132 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 102 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 1,077 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 103 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 1,095 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 104 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 994 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 105 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 928 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 106 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 859 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 107 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 823 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 108 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 793 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 109 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 780 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 110 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 723 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 111 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 648 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 112 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 619 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 113 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 450 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 114 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 520 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 115 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 427 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 116 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 480 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 117 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 528 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 118 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 624 ft | $23–$25 |
| Loop C | 119 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 643 ft | $23–$25 |
25 of 119 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Wyandotte A CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 0.0 miTooms RV CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 0.3 miLittle Grass Valley Recreation Area1.1 mi
Horse Campground2.0 mi
Red Feather California2.0 mi
Running Deer Campground2.0 miTake the La Porte-Quincy Rd. west from SR70, or travel east on La Porte Rd. from Brownsville. Travel to the intersection of the La Porte-Quincy Rd. with Little Grass Valley Rd. and follow the signs toward the lake. Turn right on to Old Little Grass Valley Rd. and travel approximately 2 1/2 miles to the turn-off to Little Beaver Campground and Maidu Boat Launch.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Little Grass Valley, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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
Little Beaver A 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 →