Lost Creek Group
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- 8All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lost Creek Group Campground (elevation 5,700 ft.) is approximately five miles south of Manzanita Lake, and close to the Lost Creek and Devastated areas. Located on the main park road, it is also in close proximity to the main attractions and hiking trails of Lassen Volcanic National Park, the general store, showers and other amenities. The Loomis Museum and educational programs are a within a short drive. Keep reading
Recreation
Within a short drive, campers can access several hiking trails and Manzanita Lake. The lake is popular with fly fishermen for catching trout; however, the area does maintain a catch-and-release policy and requires the use of artificial lures and single barb-less hooks only. Non-motorized boating is also permitted with kayak rentals nearby.
Facilities
There are eight group sites within the campground, each containing picnic tables, campfire rings, food storage lockers and parking. Drinking water is provided. The facility does not provide electric and water hookups. The closest dump station is at Manzanita Lake. For more information visit Campgrounds of Lassen Volcanic .
Natural Features
The Lost Creek area has a pleasant atmosphere dominated by large ponderosa pines. The national park is known for its volcanic history, as well as its diversity of plants and animals. It contains 300 active volcanic domes and many hydrothermal features, such as mud pots and steam vents. Lassen Peak is the southernmost active volcano in the Cascades, and the second most recent volcano to erupt in the lower 48 of the United States before Mount Saint Helens. Lassen National Park boasts over 700 species of flowering plants and 250 species of vertebrates, including birds, mammals, reptiles and fish. The park is at the junction of the Cascade Mountains, the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Great Basin, thus providing many unique habitats.
Nearby Attractions
The Loomis Museum is located about a fifteen minute drive away and the Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center is located about forty-five minute drive away.
What the agency tells you
Campsites can accommodate a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 25 people and up to 6 cars or 1 bus/RV per site.
An entrance fee of $30 per vehicle is required. Campers must have valid park entrance permit or pass before camping. We highly recommend purchasing a digital entrance permit through rec.gov.
There are no electricity, water or sewer hookups
Everything else this campground posts · 3
There are no flush toilets; vault toilets only
Please have a printed copy of your reservation with you.
Pets are not allowed on trails and must be on a 6-ft. leash
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 8 · 8 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Ranger programs
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 30 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
8 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 8 mapped sitesAll 8 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. 8 of the 8 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Lost Creek Group Sites | 001 | group standard nonelectric | 125 ft | 2,684 ft | $62 |
| Lost Creek Group Sites | 002 | group standard nonelectric | 125 ft | 2,561 ft | $62 |
| Lost Creek Group Sites | 003 | group standard nonelectric | 131 ft | 2,473 ft | $62 |
| Lost Creek Group Sites | 004 | group standard nonelectric | 131 ft | 2,508 ft | $62 |
| Lost Creek Group Sites | 005 | group standard nonelectric | 123 ft | 2,621 ft | $62 |
| Lost Creek Group Sites | 006 | group standard nonelectric | 123 ft | 2,744 ft | $62 |
| Lost Creek Group Sites | 007 | group standard nonelectric | 113 ft | 2,889 ft | $62 |
| Lost Creek Group Sites | 008 | group standard nonelectric | 113 ft | 2,930 ft | $62 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Manzanita Lake Camping Cabins (CA)Lassen Volcanic National Park · 3.3 mi
Manzanita LakeLassen Volcanic National Park · 3.4 mi
Manzanita Lake Group CampgroundLassen Volcanic National Park · 3.4 miBig Pine CampgroundLassen National Forest · 5.6 mi
Summit Lake NorthLassen Volcanic National Park · 6.7 mi
Summit Lake SouthLassen Volcanic National Park · 7.0 miFrom Redding, California drive 48 miles east on State Highway 44 to State Highway 89. Turn right into Lassen Volcanic National Park and continue five miles south to Lost Creek Group Campground. It is 1/8-mile south of Crags Campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Old Station, 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
Lost Creek Group 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.