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U.S. Forest Service · Plumas National Forest · CA

Lone Rock (CA)

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 23 opens May 23.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
A night: $36From, per site
Sites: 8785 on recreation.gov

Photos · OIP

53 ftLongest rig

5,040 ftElevation

512 ftWater · Indian Creek

5.2 miSW of Janesville, CA

55%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices

In the agency’s own words

Lone Rock Campground is one of three in the Antelope Lake Recreation Area. Nestled in the beautiful northern Sierra Nevada mountain range, it offers forested woods and scenic vistas as far as the eye can see. Antelope Lake is one of the more remote, quiet lakes in the Plumas National Forest, making it a popular destination for anglers and explorers of all abilities. Keep reading

Recreation

The campground's close proximity to the lake provides visitors with access to fishing, swimming, boating, water skiing and other water-related recreation activities. Anglers can look forward to a well-stocked trout, bass and catfish population. Educational programs are offered at the campground's amphitheater. Hiking and mountain biking opportunities abound. The Sunset Point trail begins near the campground.

Facilities

The campground offers multiple sites for both tent and RV camping, several of them adjacent to the lake, providing views of the lake. Space allows for two vehicles at each site; extra vehicles can be parked in nearby overflow parking at no extra charge. Tables and campfire rings with grills are provided, as well as vault toilets and drinking water.

Natural Features

Tall pine and fir trees provide plentiful shade to the area, which is situated at an elevation of 5,000 feet.

Nearby Attractions

The campground is 30 miles from the small town of Taylorsville. The drive along Janesville Grade has some terrific views.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Generally, campsites will accommodate 2 vehicles. The first vehicle is included in the site fee, the second vehicle fee will be collected onsite at the daily rate posted on the fee sign.

Rule

RV dump station is closed indefinitely.

Rule

Additional fees applies for boat launch; ramp is only access to lake

Everything else this campground posts · 6

Rule

Bears frequent the area; follow all food storage and garbage disposal regulations

Rule

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.

Rule

Firewood bundles can be purchased through campground host.

Rule

Check- In is 2:00pm and Check-Out is Noon

Rule

Campground Map

Rule

No Burn Damage

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 87 · 1 group
Hookups: 2 electric
Longest rig: 53 ft
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Vault Toilets; “…with grills are provided, as well as vault toilets and drinking water. Natural Features Tall pine and…”
Drinking water: Yes; “…provided, as well as vault toilets and drinking water. Natural Features Tall pine and fir trees provide…”

Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake; Biking; Boating; Fishing; Ranger programs; Swimming
Night sky · 347th darkest of 1,201 in CA: Bortle 2

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 85 of the 87 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 23, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 23, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$36plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$80DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

Watch for a cancellation

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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 12

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night$36

Standard Nonelectric$36

These are next season’s rates, May 23, 2027 to Aug 31, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$44

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$80

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $36 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

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: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

87 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 84 mapped sites

76 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

99%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most room038 121 ft012 114 ft087 109 ft056 107 ft031 106 ft

Least room085 47 ft086 47 ft044 53 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 87 sites

86 of 87 sites located

Standard82RV / electric1Group1Type not stated2

001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

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The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 83 of the 87 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


AREA LONE ROCK	001	type not stated	40 ft		390 ftAntelope Lake
AREA LONE ROCK	002	standard nonelectric	40 ft	100 ft	449 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	003	standard nonelectric	42 ft	97 ft	377 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	004	standard nonelectric	40 ft	90 ft	479 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	005	standard nonelectric	33 ft	75 ft	390 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	006	standard nonelectric	43 ft	75 ft	407 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	007	standard nonelectric	50 ft	94 ft	444 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	008	standard nonelectric	45 ft	75 ft	349 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	009	standard nonelectric	30 ft	70 ft	404 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	010	standard nonelectric	40 ft	70 ft	336 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	011	standard nonelectric	40 ft	87 ft	382 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	012	standard nonelectric	40 ft	114 ft	501 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	013	standard nonelectric	42 ft	77 ft	537 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	014	standard nonelectric	40 ft	77 ft	462 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	015	standard nonelectric	40 ft	104 ft	487 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	016	standard nonelectric	38 ft	67 ft	379 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	017	standard nonelectric	35 ft	67 ft	432 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	018	standard nonelectric	38 ft	102 ft	355 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	019	standard nonelectric	39 ft	87 ft	462 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	020	standard nonelectric	44 ft	87 ft	495 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	021	standard nonelectric	24 ft	73 ft	457 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	022	standard nonelectric	45 ft	73 ft	388 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	023	type not stated	38 ft		339 ftAntelope Lake
AREA LONE ROCK	024	standard nonelectric	42 ft	93 ft	296 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	025	standard nonelectric	53 ft	104 ft	171 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	026	standard nonelectric	40 ft	76 ft	160 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	027	standard nonelectric	44 ft	76 ft	234 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	028	standard nonelectric	38 ft	78 ft	250 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	029	standard nonelectric	40 ft	78 ft	172 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	030	standard nonelectric	40 ft	72 ft	242 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	031	standard nonelectric	45 ft	106 ft	171 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	032	standard nonelectric	28 ft	72 ft	216 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	033	standard nonelectric	47 ft	78 ft	140 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	034	standard nonelectric	30 ft	85 ft	204 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	035	standard nonelectric	50 ft	85 ft	119 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	036	standard nonelectric	50 ft	62 ft	137 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	037	standard nonelectric	50 ft	62 ft	130 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	038	standard nonelectric	46 ft	121 ft	161 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	039	standard nonelectric	25 ft	90 ft	276 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	040	standard nonelectric	44 ft	87 ft	299 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	041	standard nonelectric	41 ft	83 ft	197 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	042	standard nonelectric	41 ft	83 ft	279 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	043	standard nonelectric	22 ft	66 ft	232 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	044	standard nonelectric	31 ft	53 ft	291 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	045	standard nonelectric	42 ft	53 ft	316 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	046	standard nonelectric	23 ft	69 ft	249 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	047	standard nonelectric	45 ft	90 ft	325 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	048	standard nonelectric	42 ft	83 ft	245 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	049	standard nonelectric	43 ft	83 ft	328 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	050	standard nonelectric	30 ft	58 ft	296 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	051	standard nonelectric	40 ft	58 ft	310 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	052	standard nonelectric	33 ft	59 ft	353 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	053	standard nonelectric	43 ft	80 ft	302 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	054	standard nonelectric	41 ft	91 ft	307 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	055	standard nonelectric	43 ft	80 ft	374 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	056	standard electric	50 ft	107 ft	299 ftAntelope Lake
AREA LONE ROCK	057	standard nonelectric	43 ft	76 ft	245 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	058	group standard electric	43 ft	76 ft	182 ftAntelope Lake
AREA LONE ROCK	059	standard nonelectric	45 ft			$36
AREA LONE ROCK	060	standard nonelectric	36 ft	73 ft	116 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	061	standard nonelectric	41 ft	73 ft	184 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	062	standard nonelectric	40 ft	77 ft	132 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	063	standard nonelectric	36 ft	65 ft	197 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	064	standard nonelectric	40 ft	76 ft	144 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	065	standard nonelectric	33 ft	65 ft	179 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	066	standard nonelectric	39 ft	74 ft	108 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	067	standard nonelectric	37 ft	73 ft	106 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	068	standard nonelectric	50 ft	73 ft	116 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	069	standard nonelectric	30 ft	95 ft	194 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	070	standard nonelectric	50 ft	104 ft	96 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	071	standard nonelectric	50 ft	70 ft	169 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	072	standard nonelectric	40 ft	70 ft	108 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	073	standard nonelectric	42 ft	70 ft	176 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	074	standard nonelectric	34 ft	79 ft	123 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	075	standard nonelectric	48 ft	75 ft	152 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	076	standard nonelectric	42 ft	75 ft	81 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	077	standard nonelectric	35 ft	64 ft	121 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	078	standard nonelectric	40 ft	61 ft	40 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	079	standard nonelectric	33 ft	61 ft	94 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	080	standard nonelectric	48 ft	98 ft	15 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	081	standard nonelectric	35 ft	91 ft	110 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	082	standard nonelectric	38 ft	90 ft	29 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	083	standard nonelectric	38 ft	70 ft	92 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	084	standard nonelectric	38 ft	70 ft	75 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	085	standard nonelectric	40 ft	46 ft	137 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	086	standard nonelectric	39 ft	46 ft	183 ftAntelope Lake	$36
AREA LONE ROCK	087	standard nonelectric	50 ft	109 ft	261 ftAntelope Lake	$36

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.

25 of 87 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate40.19528, -120.61722

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone530-283-0555

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near hereBoulder Creek CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 0.3 mi

Boulder Creek (CA)Plumas National Forest · 0.9 mi Antelope Lake Recreation AreaPlumas National Forest · 1.7 mi

Long Point (CA)Plumas National Forest · 2.4 mi Laufman Family CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 15 mi Roxie Peconom CampgroundLassen National Forest · 15 mi

Getting there

Take Arlington Road off Highway 89 (near Crescent Mills) to Taylorsville Road, continuing on Genesee Road and Indian Creek Road to Antelope Lake.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight39°Mostly Clear

Saturday74°Sunny

Saturday Night37°Mostly Clear

Sunday71°Sunny

NWS forecast for Janesville, CA

Source: National Weather Service, REV forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 36°F, day 67°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°10°

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.

Measured at: SUSANVILLE 2SW, CA (USC00048702), 16 miles away and 828 ft lower

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Lone Rock (CA) 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 →

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Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 85 of the 87 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

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, taken as the median across the 86 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.083 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 1,201 rated federal campgrounds in California · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

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.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026