U.S. Forest Service · Mendocino National Forest · CA
Little Doe Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 14 mi
Wildfire
Hill fire · 14 mi away · 2 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
West fire · 44 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
3,670 ftElevation
1,851 ftWater · Howard Creek
13.8 miNE of Covelo, CA
68%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 98th darkest of 1,201 in CA
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This is a popular campground for hunters in the fall. Little Doe Campground has 12 sites, including two walk-in sites. The campground has a large mix of conifer and oak trees, and there is a creek that runs through the campground. The campground has picnic tables and fire rings, and 3 vault toilets. This campground experienced damage during the 2020 August Complex fire, please avoid parking or camping under fire-damaged trees.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…has picnic tables and fire rings, and 3 vault toilets. This campground experienced damage during the 2020…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near hereHoward Meadows CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 1.2 mi
Hammerhorn CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 3.7 miSugar Spring CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 4.5 miWells Cabin CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 4.5 miGreen Springs CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 6.2 miEel River Campground7.1 mi
Hammerhorn CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 3.7 miSugar Spring CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 4.5 miWells Cabin CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 4.5 miGreen Springs CampgroundMendocino National Forest · 6.2 miEel River Campground7.1 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
This Afternoon76°Sunny
Tonight56°Mostly Clear
Saturday71°Sunny
Saturday Night53°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Covelo, CA
Source: National Weather Service, EKA forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Little Doe Campground is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.