Lower Twin Lakes at Bridgeport
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $34From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lower Twin Lakes Campground is located just 10 miles from Bridgeport, California. The Twin Lakes area is close by, offering boating, fishing, hiking and horseback riding opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Robinson Creek offers good rainbow trout fishing and can be easily accessed from within the campground. Numerous hiking trails are in the vicinity, including the popular Robinson Creek Trail.
Facilities
The campground contains several single-family sites with picnic tables, food storage lockers and fire rings with grills. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. Roads and parking spurs are paved. Robinson Creek South Campground is nearby, where educational programs are held at its amphitheater on weekends from July 4 through Labor Day.
Natural Features
The campground is situated next to Robinson Creek, just below Lower Twin Lake, at an elevation of 7,000 feet. Massive Jeffrey pines tower over the site, offering partial shade. Aspens, sagebrush and summer wildflowers dot the landscape.
Nearby Attractions
Upper and Lower Twin Lakes are within walking distance, offering beautiful mountain scenery, boating, canoeing and fishing for Kokanee salmon and rainbow and brown trout. A public boat ramp and beach are half-mile from the campground. The rugged and scenic Hoover Wilderness Area can be accessed from the Twin Lakes area and offers additional trails for hiking and horseback riding.
Charges & Cancellations
Reservation sites will be held until check out time (12 pm) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the Campground Manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
This is Lower Twin Lakes near Bridgeport, not Twin Lakes at Mammoth Lakes
Be Bear Aware; Keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle (windows up). All ice chests must be stored and remove all food from area after eating always keep a clean camp and do not feed any wildlife.
Reserved Sites will be held until checkout time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of the second day to hold a reservation, or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Please call the office at 760-932-7092 if you need to inform the campground of an arrival greater than 24 hours after your arrival date, or if you will not use your reservation whatsoever. This campground also has FCFS (First Come First Serve- non reservation) sites. Reservations are site specific. Changing campsites after arrival is prohibited and will require cancelling the original reservation and paying cash/check for the desired campsite at the time of occupancy. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither Recreation.gov contact center nor the campground host/manager will be able to modify the reservation (change sites).
Everything else this campground posts · 10
One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent site is included in your reservation. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground. Extra vehicle must fit on the parking spur at the site.
PETS: All pets must be kept on a leash and under their owner's control at all times. Aggressive or disruptive pets are not permitted. For the safety and enjoyment of all campers, management reserves the right to require an aggressive pet to the leave the campground.
Click here for more info about the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forests
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Pass Discounts: If you use a pass discount you must provide your pass and photo identification upon check in or upon Camp Host request. If you received a pass discount for which you weren't eligible you must pay the difference in price upon arrival.
Fire Restrictions may be imposed at any time due to; hot, dry weather conditions or red flag warnings at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. Please check with Camp Host.
Single campsites have a 6-person max. If there are more than 6 people in your campsite, please purchase two (2) sites, spread your group and equipment out evenly between campsites. This is to protect natural resources and minimize noise levels. Double sites have a 12-person max. Triple sites have an 18-person max.
Water disposal- Do not dump grey water on the ground or at the water spigots.
Falling objects - don't linger under dead, cracked, or broken branches. Run if you hear cracks or snapping from tree roots, trunks, or branches (know that sometimes there is no sound or very little time to react). Report falling branches or trees to a Ranger.
Do not build additional fire rings. Glass, aluminum, and food are prohibited in fire rings. Logs must fit within the fire ring. Chainsaws are not allowed. Fires must be extinguished completely with water and be cool to the touch before leaving the campsite or going to bed.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15 · 1 tent-only, 3 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…lockers and fire rings with grills. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…fire rings with grills. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Firewood is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Fishing
- Night sky · 120th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 2.5 km away
- Patchy 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 · 16
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee of $6 per vehicle per night is due at kiosk in campground upon arrival.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $34 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.
“Reservation sites will be held until check out time (12 pm) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov C…” · 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 · 7
rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 15 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 14 of the 15 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LOWE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $34 | |||
| LOWE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 70 ft | 121 ftRobinson Creek | 66 ft | $34 |
| LOWE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 70 ft | 86 ftRobinson Creek | 135 ft | $34 |
| LOWE | 004 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 107 ft | 136 ftRobinson Creek | 161 ft | $34 |
| LOWE | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 24 ft | 107 ft | 190 ftRobinson Creek | 54 ft | $34 |
| LOWE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 31 ft | 124 ftRobinson Creek | 364 ft | $34 |
| LOWE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 31 ft | 118 ftRobinson Creek | 389 ft | $34 |
| LOWE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 51 ft | 122 ftRobinson Creek | 412 ft | $34 |
| LOWE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 51 ft | 126 ftRobinson Creek | 362 ft | $34 |
| LOWE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 63 ft | 151 ftRobinson Creek | 282 ft | $34 |
| LOWE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 55 ft | 162 ftRobinson Creek | 220 ft | $34 |
| LOWE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 55 ft | 179 ftRobinson Creek | 165 ft | $34 |
| LOWE | 013 | walk to | 70 ft | 107 ftRobinson Creek | 172 ft | $34 | |
| LOWE | 014 | walk to | 54 ft | 122 ftRobinson Creek | 121 ft | $34 | |
| LOWE | 015 | walk to | 54 ft | 167 ftRobinson Creek | 67 ft | $34 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lower Twin Lake CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 0.1 mi
PahaToiyabe National Forest · 0.6 mi
Robinson Creek NorthToiyabe National Forest · 1.2 mi
Robinson Creek SouthToiyabe National Forest · 1.2 mi
Crags CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 1.5 mi
Honeymoon FlatToiyabe National Forest · 2.1 miFrom Bridgeport, California, take Highway 395 and turn south at Twin Lakes Road and travel 9.6 miles. Turn left onto South Twin Road and travel approximately 0.6 miles across the bridge to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Twin Lakes, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 24°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 10°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Lower Twin Lakes at Bridgeport 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 →