Lower Chiquito Campground
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This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Shaded by cedar and pine trees, Lower Chiquito Campground is a small campground that offers campsites along Chiquito Creek. Each site has a table, grill and fire ring and the campground provides vault toilets. Closest service is Wagner's Store.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…fire ring and the campground provides vault toilets. Closest service is Wagner's Store.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 35 km away
- Peak color
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 · 4
What you actually pay
“$23.62 ($26.22)* per night, for single site $43.24 ($48.00) per night, for double site $7.00 per night, per additional vehicle *(taxes included)” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
SweetwaterSierra National Forest · 3.8 mi
Mammoth PoolSierra National Forest · 5.5 miGaggs Camp CampgroundSierra National Forest · 5.8 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bass Lake, CA
Typical weather
Typical June night 44°F, day 73°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 44°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Lower Chiquito Campground is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →