Manzanita Lake Group Campground
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The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Manzanita Lake Group Campground is located at the west end of Loop B in Manzanita Lake Campground, the largest campground in Lassen Volcanic National Park. It is within walking distance of scenic Manzanita Lake, a popular fishing and family destination, and offers impressive views of Lassen Peak, the largest volcano in the park at 10,457 feet. Keep reading
Recreation
Manzanita Lake is popular with fly fishermen who enjoy the catch-and-release policy. Non-motorized boating is also permitted and kayak rentals are available nearby. The park boasts more than 150 miles of hiking trails, a variety of which can be accessed from the campground. Many family-friendly hikes are available, as well as those for more experienced hikers.
Facilities
The group campground is equipped with picnic tables, campfire rings and food storage lockers. Flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided. A camp host is on-site. This facility is conveniently located one mile south of the northern park entrance, close to the Loomis Museum, Loomis Ranger Station and popular hiking trails. Campfire and educational programs are presented at the museum and amphitheater.
Natural Features
The campground is situated at an elevation of 5,900 feet, adjacent to Manzanita Lake, surrounded by towering Jeffrey and ponderosa pines. The national park is known for its volcanic history, as well as its diversity of more than 950 species of animals and flowering plants. The park is at the junction of the Cascade Mountains, the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Great Basin, thus providing many unique habitats. Lassen contains 300 active volcanic domes, as well as many hydrothermal features, such as mud pots and steam vents. Lassen Peak is the southernmost active volcano in the Cascades, and the second most recent to erupt in the lower 48 states, after Mount St. Helens.
What the agency tells you
No motorized boats permitted on the lake
Reservation cards may be posted by the park for park sponsored groups in Loops B and D
Be bear aware; food and scented products must be stored in the bear lockers provided at each site
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Pets require a 6 foot leash and may not be left unattended; pets are not allowed on park trails
No hookups available
An entrance fee of $30 per vehicle is required or an Educational Fee Waiver must be obtained before entering the park and a copy must be displayed in each vehicle. We highly recommend visitors purchase the park's digital 1-7 day entrance fee or the parks annual pass throught recreation.gov prior to visiting park.
Click here for more information on Lassen Volcanic National Park
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Campsite capacity is 15 persons per site and a maximum of 4 vehicles.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 5 · 5 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal · Vault Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Ranger programs
- Visitor center
- Night sky · 158th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 36 km away
- Peak 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
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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.
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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 · 12
What you actually pay
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
5 sites
All 5 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. 5 of the 5 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MANZANITA LAKE GROUP CAMPGROUND | B20,22 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $72 |
| MANZANITA LAKE GROUP CAMPGROUND | B24,25,27 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $72 |
| MANZANITA LAKE GROUP CAMPGROUND | B28,30 | group standard nonelectric | 26 ft | $72 |
| MANZANITA LAKE GROUP CAMPGROUND | B31,32 | group standard nonelectric | 27 ft | $72 |
| MANZANITA LAKE GROUP CAMPGROUND | B33,34 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $72 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Manzanita LakeLassen Volcanic National Park · 0.0 mi
Manzanita Lake Camping Cabins (CA)Lassen Volcanic National Park · 0.1 mi
Lost Creek GroupLassen Volcanic National Park · 3.4 miSouthwest Campground - Winter/SpringLassen Volcanic National Park · 6.6 mi
Southwest CampgroundLassen Volcanic National Park · 6.6 mi
Summit Lake NorthLassen Volcanic National Park · 7.7 miFrom Redding, California, take State Highway 48 miles east. Turn right into Lassen Volcanic National Park and continue one mile south to Manzanita Lake Campground. Proceed to Loop B and go west to the back side of the loop where the group campsites are located.
The agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mineral, CA
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
Manzanita Lake Group Campground 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.