Long Valley Campground
1Heads up1 fire 18 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Long Valley Campground is a remote, primitive campground located within Chimney Peak Recreation Area and is cherry stemmed out of Domelands Wilderness. The campground contains 13 sites, picnic tables, fire rings, and primitive pit toilets. There is no potable water at the campground. The Volpe Trail, a 3-mile unmaintained route that provides access to the South Fork of the Kern River within Domelands Wilderness, starts at the end of the campground road near site 13.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…picnic tables, fire rings, and primitive pit toilets. There is no potable water at the campground. The…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…fire rings, and primitive pit toilets. There is no potable water at the campground. The Volpe Trail, a 3-mile…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Auto Touring
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Chimney Creek CampgroundBakersfield Field Office · 6.7 miHorse Meadow CampgroundSequoia National Forest · 12 mi
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the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Onyx, CA
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
Long Valley Campground is in California’s 20th congressional district. Its representative, Vince Fong (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →