Lupine
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 18 mi
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:03 UTC
- A night
- $52When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 51In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lupine Campground is located next to Bass Lake. Cedar Bluff Campground is adjacent to Lupine. Lupine is quieter and set further back from the lake than Cedar Bluff, and each site offers more privacy. Keep reading
Recreation
Bass Lake offers a beach and boat ramp. Popular activities include swimming, motorized boating, canoeing, kayaking, water skiing, sailing and fishing for bass, trout, bluegill and catfish. Nearby hiking trails include Willow Creek, Goat Mountain, Spring Cove and Way-of-the-Mono Interpretive Trail. A variety of educational programs are offered on weekends during the summer.
Facilities
Each campsite has a picnic table, grill, campfire ring and paved parking spur. Lupine Campground provides accessible flush toilets and drinking water. Most parking spurs are large enough to accommodate boat trailers.
Natural Features
Huge Ponderosa pines create a majestic setting for this camp, which is situated within the Sierra National Forest on the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada. The forest is known for its spectacular mountain scenery and abundant natural resources. The terrain includes rolling, oak-covered foothills, heavily forested middle elevation slopes and the starkly beautiful alpine landscape of the High Sierra. Lupine Campground is located in the Bass Lake Ranger District at an elevation of 3,400 feet. Bass Lake is a very popular area known for its variety of fish, as well as the bald and golden eagles that make their home here.
Nearby Attractions
Lupine is located 24 miles from the entrance of Yosemite National Park's South Entrance.
Charges & Cancellations
Rules & Reservation Policies As you make travel plans that include reservations on Recreation.gov, there are standard policies that apply to most locations of which you should be aware. Do keep in mind, however, that there are many exceptions, so it is best to review reservation information listed on individual facility pages for those policies and procedures that pertain to your specific locations. Any location or activity requiring a permit or lottery will have unique requirements and policies. Please check individual facility pages for pertinent information for those sites. Booking Window For most locations, you can reserve six months in advance of your stay for individual sites and 12 months in advance for group sites. There are some exceptions, so it is best to check with each facility. Change and Cancellation Policies and Fees Overnight and Day Use Facilities: To ensure fairness, reservation arrival or departure dates may not be changed beyond the booking window until 18 days after booking the reservation. Camping / Day Use: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation (including campsites, cabins, lookouts, group facilities, etc.). The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amount. You can cancel or change reservations through Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. Tours & Tickets: You may request changes to tour dates at no cost before the arrival date. If you cancel before your tour date, you may be eligible for a refund. Cancellation fees apply. Please check the tour facility description details page for cancellation policies. Permits: Varies by location. Please check the permit details for the permit location. Late Cancellations Overnight and Day Use Facilities: Late cancellations are those cancelled between 12:01 a.m. (Eastern) on the day before arrival and check out time on the day after arrival. Individual Campsites: If a customer cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival they will be charged a $10.00 service fee and will also forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a single night's reservation will forfeit the entire use fee but no cancellation fee will apply. Cabins / Lookouts: Customers will be charged a $10.00 cancellation fee and forfeit the first night's use fee if a cabin or lookout reservation is cancelled within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date. Cancellations for a single night's use will not be assessed a service fee. Group Facility: If a customer cancels a group overnight facility reservation within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date they will be charged the $10.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's use fee. Cancellations for a single night's use will not be assessed a service fee. Group Day Use Area: If a customer cancels a group day use facility reservation within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date, they will forfeit the total day use fee with no service fee charge. No-Shows Camping / Day Use: A camping no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Reserved campsites and group overnight facilities will be held until check-out time on the day following your scheduled arrival. Group day-use facilities will be held until check-in time on your scheduled arrival date. If a customer does not arrive at the campground or group facility by check-out time the day after arrival or does not cancel the reservation by the times listed under "Late Cancellations" above, the customer may be assessed a $20.00 service fee and forfeit use fees. Tours: A tour or ticket no-show is one who does not cancel a ticket before arrival and does not arrive for the tour. Tour no-shows are not entitled to a refund. Refunds Customers must request refunds no later than 14 days after the scheduled departure date. Recreation.gov will not grant refund requests after 14 days of departure. Reservation Fee: For some facilities, tours or permits an additional reservation fee is charged. For some overnight and day-use facilities, an additional non-refundable reservation fee may apply. The non-refundable reservation fee for tours and tickets is $1.00. The non-refundable reservation fee for permits varies by location. Refunds for Bankcard Purchases: Refunds for bank card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank card. Refunds for Check or Cash Purchases: Refunds for Recreation.gov payments made by check or money order, and cash payments at selected campgrounds will be issued a check refund. A refund will be processed within 30 days of receipt and approval. 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 team will attempt to notify users and offer alternate dates (as appropriate). If this is not possible, reservations will be cancelled and all fees paid will be refunded. Reservation fees for free tickets are non-refundable in the event of an emergency closure. Recreation.gov Billing Information Reservation transaction will appear on customer's credit card statements as "Recreation.gov 877-444-6777." Changes to Policies and Procedures Recreation.gov reserves the right, when necessary, to modify reservation policies. These policies were last updated July
What the agency tells you
Please register at the Bass Lake Camp Store.
No more than 2 pets per site and leashed at all times.
This campground has a security guard on patrol and an on-site host
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent site. 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.
Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. For current fire conditions or weather closures contact the Sierra National Forest Headquarters, (559) 297-0706.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) 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.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
Click here for more information about Sierra National Forest
Be bear aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating; always keep a clean camp and do not feed any wild animals.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 51 · 12 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 39 of 51
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- 39 of 48 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 45 of 51 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 48 of 51 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 931st darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:03 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
“Camping / Day Use: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation (including campsites, cabins, lookouts, group facilities, etc.). The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amount.” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 5
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Lupine closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Cedar BluffSierra National Forest · 0.0 mi · 22 sites
- Recreation PointSierra National Forest · 2.2 mi · 4 sites
- Crane ValleySierra National Forest · 2.7 mi · 7 sites
- Nelder Grove CampgroundSierra National Forest · 8.6 mi · walk-up
recreation.gov availability, read 16:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
51 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 50 mapped sitesAll 51 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 50 of the 51 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. 51 of the 51 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| 63-75 | 063 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 59 ft | 357 ft | 637 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 064 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 40 ft | 417 ft | 565 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 065 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 314 ft | 665 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 066 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 27 ft | 379 ft | 598 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 067 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 23 ft | 402 ft | 600 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 068 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 28 ft | 349 ft | 688 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 069 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 24 ft | 400 ft | 638 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 070 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 34 ft | 412 ft | 573 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 071 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 21 ft | 449 ft | 588 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 072 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 62 ft | 511 ft | 480 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 073 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 26 ft | 464 ft | 518 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 074 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 48 ft | 507 ft | 473 ft | $52 |
| 63-75 | 075 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 32 ft | 499 ft | 478 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 076 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $52 | |||
| 76-93 | 077 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | 21 ft | 446 ft | 598 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 078 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 23 ft | 420 ft | 590 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 079 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 38 ft | 374 ft | 616 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 080 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 87 ft | 290 ft | 703 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 081 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 204 ft | 794 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 082 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 235 ft | 800 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 083 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 28 ft | 326 ft | 717 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 084 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 55 ft | 365 ft | 705 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 085 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 70 ft | 272 ft | 798 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 086 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 24 ft | 377 ft | 658 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 087 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 70 ft | 302 ft | 759 ft | $52 |
| 76-93 | 088 | tent only nonelectric | 65 ft | 481 ft | 356 ft | $52 | |
| 76-93 | 089 | tent only nonelectric | 65 ft | 546 ft | 293 ft | $52 | |
| 76-93 | 090 | tent only nonelectric | 56 ft | 597 ft | 275 ft | $52 | |
| 76-93 | 091 | tent only nonelectric | 56 ft | 576 ft | 328 ft | $52 | |
| 76-93 | 092 | tent only nonelectric | 69 ft | 630 ft | 337 ft | $52 | |
| 76-93 | 093 | tent only nonelectric | 34 ft | 541 ft | 436 ft | $52 | |
| 94-113 | 094 | tent only nonelectric | 51 ft | 474 ft | 512 ft | $52 | |
| 94-113 | 095 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 473 ft | 542 ft | $52 | |
| 94-113 | 096 | tent only nonelectric | 54 ft | 452 ft | 588 ft | $52 | |
| 94-113 | 097 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 408 ft | 647 ft | $52 | |
| 94-113 | 098 | tent only nonelectric | 61 ft | 338 ft | 695 ft | $52 | |
| 94-113 | 099 | tent only nonelectric | 61 ft | 289 ft | 717 ft | $52 | |
| 94-113 | 100 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 14 ft | 480 ft | 531 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 101 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 56 ft | 419 ft | 582 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 102 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 40 ft | 377 ft | 602 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 103 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 27 ft | 405 ft | 572 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 104 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 26 ft | 437 ft | 544 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 105 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 54 ft | 452 ft | 543 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 106 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 46 ft | 476 ft | 545 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 107 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 34 ft | 444 ft | 547 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 108 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 40 ft | 391 ft | 555 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 109 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 86 ft | 375 ft | 499 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 110 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 74 ft | 460 ft | 425 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 111 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 56 ft | 533 ft | 382 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 112 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 582 ft | 397 ft | $52 |
| 94-113 | 113 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 32 ft | 524 ft | 457 ft | $52 |
25 of 51 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cedar BluffSierra National Forest · 0.0 mi
Spring Cove0.6 mi
Wishon Bass LakeSierra National Forest · 1.1 miWishon Point CampgroundSierra National Forest · 1.1 mi
Forks Campground (Sierra)Sierra National Forest · 1.3 mi
Recreation PointSierra National Forest · 2.2 miFrom Highway 41, take Bass Lake turnoff, head southeast approximately 3.5 miles to the Bass Lake office. Continue approximately 2.75 miles to the Lupine Cedar Bluff Campground.
The 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 October night 41°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 28°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
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
Lupine 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 →