Lower Jones Valley (CA)
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 221 on recreation.gov
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lower Jones Valley Campground is located on the Pit River Arm of Shasta Lake, it has trash service, vault toilets and potable water. This is campground has 9 single sites and 2 double sites with an average back in around 30'. This Campground is on a First Come - First Serve Basis, vistors are required to physically be at the campground to purchase and claim a site. You must also occupy the area the day you pay for it, no advance payments. We encourage our visitors to download the recreation.gov app to take advantage of the Scan & Pay Option. There is also a Iron Ranger on site that you can pay with cash or check. Keep reading
Recreation
A public boat ramp is located approximately 1 mile away at Jones Valley (dependent on water level). This area is popular for water skiing and jet skiing. Lake Shasta offers excellent fishing for trout, catfish, Chinook salmon, crappie, bluegill, white sturgeon, brown bullhead and bass.
Facilities
Trash Service, Vault Toilets and Potable Water Natural Features Shasta-Trinity is the largest national forest in California with a diverse landscape encompassing five wilderness areas, hundreds of mountain lakes and 6,278 miles of streams and rivers. Lake Shasta sits at an elevation of 1,067 feet, with 365 miles of shoreline punctuated by steep mountains blanketed in manzanita and evergreens. A snow-capped Mount Shasta, the second-tallest mountain in the Cascade Range, looms in the distance. Wildlife is abundant in the area.
Nearby Attractions
There are several attractions in the area for a list of a few view our website: Local Attractions Charges & Cancellations Refunds for Check or Cash Purchases: Refunds for cash payments will be issued a check or cash refund. A refund will be processed within 30 days of receipt and approval. For cash or check refunds please call us at 530-275-8113. Please Note! Refund requests made during or after departure can only be processed when approved by the facility management staff based upon local policy. Refunds for Emergency Closures: In the event of an emergency closure the Recreation.gov will attempt to notify users and offer alternate dates and sites (as appropriate). If this is not possible, reservations will be canceled and all fees paid will be refunded. Refunds for Naturally Occurring Events: Refunds will not be issued for naturally occurring events like rain, snow, wind, smoke, extreme temperature, low lake level, etc. If you are requesting a refund for a walk-up site, please contact the host on-site or call us 530-275-8113. All refunds must be approved and issued through our office or processed though Recreation.gov.
What the agency tells you
Poison oak is abundant throughout the forest
Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit: Firewood Information
Please place trash inside cans and close lid after use.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Wildlife is frequent in the area; all food must be kept in approved containers: Wildlife Info
If applicable, the holder of the Golden Pass must be present; Must bring card to the area
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…of Shasta Lake, it has trash service, vault toilets and potable water. This is campground has 9 single…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…it has trash service, vault toilets and potable water. This is campground has 9 single sites and 2 double…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Paddle Boating
- Tubing
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 14:16 UTC
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 22 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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.
“Refunds for Check or Cash Purchases: Refunds for cash payments will be issued a check or cash refund. A refund will be processed within 30 days of receipt and approval. For cash or check refunds please call us at 530-275-8113. Please Note! Refund requests made during or after departure can only be processed when app…” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 14:16 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 sites
All 22 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. 22 of the 22 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| S&P | S&P Double | type not stated | $30–$60 |
| S&P | S&P Single | type not stated | $30–$60 |
| Standard Double 1 | type not stated | $30–$60 | |
| Standard Double 2 | type not stated | $30–$60 | |
| Standard Overflow Single | standard nonelectric | $30 | |
| Standard Overflow Single 1 | standard nonelectric | $30 | |
| Standard Overflow Single 2 | standard nonelectric | $30 | |
| Standard Overflow Single 3 | standard nonelectric | $30 | |
| Standard Overflow Single 4 | standard nonelectric | $30 | |
| Standard Overflow Single 5 | standard nonelectric | $30 | |
| Standard Overflow Single 6 | standard nonelectric | $30 | |
| Standard Overflow Single 7 | standard nonelectric | $30 | |
| Standard Overflow Single 8 | standard nonelectric | $30 | |
| Standard Single 1 | type not stated | $30–$60 | |
| Standard Single 2 | type not stated | $30–$60 | |
| Standard Single 3 | type not stated | $30–$60 | |
| Standard Single 4 | type not stated | $30–$60 | |
| Standard Single 5 | type not stated | $30–$60 | |
| Standard Single 6 | type not stated | $30–$60 | |
| Standard Single 7 | type not stated | $30–$60 | |
| Standard Single 8 | type not stated | $30–$60 | |
| Standard Single 9 | type not stated | $30–$60 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Jones Valley Inlet Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.1 mi
Jones Valley Inlet West Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.1 mi
Mariners Point Group CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.2 mi
Bailey CoveWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 5.8 mi
Bailey Cove CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 6.9 mi
Hirz BayWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 9.7 miLower Jones Valley Campground is located 15 miles north of Redding from I-5.
Going Northbound I-5 exit at the Oasis Road exit. Take a right at the stop sign from the ramp follow road for about 3 miles. Turn right onto Bear Mountain Rd for about 5 miles, turn left at the stop sign to stay on Bear Mtn Rd. Turn right onto Jones Valley Rd follow to the campground entrance on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Jones Valley, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Lower Jones Valley (CA) 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.