Mammoth Pool
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 21 mi
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $41From, per site
- Sites
- 5134 on recreation.gov
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mammoth Pool Campground is located half a mile from the recreation area at Mammoth Pool Reservoir. This primitive campground winds through a stand of Ponderosa pine and cedar trees along the San Joaquin River in the midst of a mountainous landscape. Keep reading
Recreation
Mammoth Pool Reservoir offers a variety of recreational activities, including fishing, boating, hiking and wildlife viewing. A boat ramp is available at the reservoir. Hikers can access the nearby French Trail, a 12.7-mile foot trail that provides access to the Ansel Adams Wilderness.
Facilities
Each campsite has a picnic table, grill and campfire ring. Vault toilets are provided, but campers must bring drinking water. Campers will find a pay phone, gas and camping supplies at nearby Wagner's Mammoth Pool Resort.
Natural Features
The Sierra National Forest, located on the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada, 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. Mammoth Pool Campground is located near the Ansel Adams Wilderness, known for its jagged peaks, including 13,157-foot Mt. Ritter, and numerous lakes and streams.
Nearby Attractions
A popular pastime in the area is to take a drive on the 83-mile Sierra Vista Scenic Byway.
What the agency tells you
Maximum RV length is 30 feet
This is bear country; please keep food in bear-proof lockers
The reservoir is closed for boating and fishing from May 1st to June 16th for deer migration
Everything else this campground posts · 6
In accordance with standard industry practices, Sierra Recreation will be assessing a $10 additional vehicle fee per day on the second vehicle in each single family campsite, and on the third and fourth vehicle in any double family campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site. In the case of motorcycles, the first two are considered as one vehicle for determining additional vehicle fees. The third and fourth motorcycle would also be considered as one vehicle. No additional vehicle fees are collected for bicycles.
This facility is operated by Sierra Recreation, A Division of California Land Management, and your comments are appreciated; comment forms are available from campground hosts or on CLM's website
Click here for more information about Sierra National Forest
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.
No more than two pets per site
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 51
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…a picnic table, grill and campfire ring. Vault toilets are provided, but campers must bring drinking…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “Vault toilets are provided, but campers must bring drinking water.”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 578th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 37 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 34 of the 51 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
“In accordance with standard industry practices, Sierra Recreation will be assessing a $10 additional vehicle fee per day on the second vehicle in each single family campsite, and on the third and fourth vehicle in any…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $41 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.
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
52 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 32 mapped sitesAll 52 records
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 52 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 001 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 20 ft | 741 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 002 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 20 ft | 721 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 003 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 25 ft | 723 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 004 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 25 ft | 700 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 11 ft | 705 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 10 ft | 669 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 007 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 23 ft | 640 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 008 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 35 ft | 630 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 009 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 938 ft | 890 ft | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 10 ft | 675 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 011 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 11 ft | 694 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 21 ft | 590 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 013 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 22 ft | 718 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 16 ft | 694 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 17 ft | 698 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 016 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 16 ft | 678 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 017 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 17 ft | 681 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 018 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 22 ft | 658 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 019 | type not stated | 20 ft | 653 ftChiquito Creek | $41 | |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 020 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 19 ft | 640 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 021 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 16 ft | 624 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 022 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 16 ft | 611 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 023 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 13 ft | 617 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 024 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 13 ft | 607 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 025 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 24 ft | 593 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 026 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 26 ft | 664 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 027 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 24 ft | 671 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 028 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 23 ft | 619 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 029 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 29 ft | 618 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 030 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 24 ft | 594 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 031 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 21 ft | 575 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 032 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $41 | ||
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 033 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $41 | ||
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 33 ft | 561 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 035 | type not stated | 30 ft | 566 ftChiquito Creek | $41 | |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 38 ft | 582 ftChiquito Creek | $41 |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 037 | type not stated | 30 ft | 604 ftChiquito Creek | $41 | |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 038 | type not stated | 30 ft | 651 ftChiquito Creek | $41 | |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 039 | type not stated | 30 ft | 661 ftChiquito Creek | $41 | |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 040 | type not stated | 30 ft | 675 ftChiquito Creek | $41 | |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 041 | type not stated | 30 ft | 659 ftChiquito Creek | $41 | |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 042 | type not stated | 30 ft | 675 ftChiquito Creek | $41 | |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 043 | type not stated | 30 ft | 687 ftChiquito Creek | $41 | |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 044 | type not stated | 30 ft | 691 ftChiquito Creek | $41 | |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 045 | type not stated | 30 ft | 572 ftChiquito Creek | $41 | |
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 046 | type not stated | 30 ft | $41 | ||
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | 047 | type not stated | 30 ft | $41 | ||
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | FS1-20 | type not stated | 20 ft | $41 | ||
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | FS1-20N | type not stated | 20 ft | $41 | ||
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | FS1-30 | type not stated | 30 ft | $41 | ||
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | FS1-30N | type not stated | 30 ft | $41 | ||
| AREA MAMMOTH POOL | XXX | unnamed record | 20 ft | $41 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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.
25 of 52 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
SweetwaterSierra National Forest · 1.8 miPlacer CampgroundSierra National Forest · 2.4 miLittle Jackass CampgroundSierra National Forest · 3.8 miRock Creek CampgroundSierra National Forest · 3.9 miSoda Springs CampgroundSierra National Forest · 4.0 mi
Rock Creek (Sierra National Forest, CA)Sierra National Forest · 4.0 miFrom Fresno, California, take Highway 41 north. Turn northeast on Forest Road 200 and pass through North Fork. Take Minarets Road east, follow it 37 miles, turn right on Mammoth Pool Road and follow it 4 miles to Mammoth Pool Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for North Fork, CA
Typical weather
Typical June night 51°F, day 81°F.
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
Mammoth Pool 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 →