Mariners Point Group Campground
Reservable everywhere but bookable nowhere.Ask the agency →
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 2None on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mariners Point Campground is located where the Pit and Squaw arm of Shasta Lake come together and offers sites to both tent and RV campers. Visitors to this area can enjoy boating and fishing at the nearby Shasta Lake or hiking around the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
The nearest public boat ramp is six miles away in Jones Valley. Nearby lakeside resorts offer boat rentals and fuel. Shasta Lake is popular for power and non-motorized boating, fishing and water skiing. Anglers can fish for trout, catfish, Chinook salmon, crappie, bluegill, white sturgeon, brown bullhead and bass.
Facilities
All campsites have picnic tables, grills, fire rings, and parking spurs. Portable toilets are provided.
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.
What the agency tells you
There is no drinking water provided at this facility.
Call (530) 275- 8113 one week before arrival for entry gate code.
There is a 2-night minimum on weekends; 3-night minimum on holidays.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Click here to learn more about the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out time 12 P.M.
No Amplified Sound!
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 2
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Portable Toilets
- “…grills, fire rings, and parking spurs. Portable toilets are provided. Natural Features Shasta-Trinity is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Night sky · 908th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
Nothing on the booking system
recreation.gov lists none of the 2 campsites the agency files here. Whatever these sites are, a reservation isn’t how you get 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.
Every line of the receipt · 24
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
2 sites · the site map
All 2 sites
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Jones Valley Inlet West Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.0 mi
Jones Valley Inlet Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.0 mi
Lower Jones Valley (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.2 mi
Bailey CoveWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.7 mi
Bailey Cove CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 4.8 mi
Hirz BayWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 7.9 miFrom I-5 take the Mountain Gate/Wonderland Blvd. Exit and go east to Bear Mountain Road. At Dry Creek Road go left to Silverthorn Road (take left Y) Follow Silverthorn Road toward the resort and take the left turn prior to entering resort. Campground is behind gate.
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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Mariners Point 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.
Who can change it · 2
The agency’s own record marks Mariners Point Group Campground reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its campsites. The draft asks why, and what it would take to fix it.
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAdam B. SchiffU.S. Senator · California
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAlex PadillaU.S. Senator · California
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Mariners Point Group Campground is reservable and not bookable
Dear Adam B. Schiff, I’m a constituent in California. Mariners Point Group Campground, Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, California is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 2 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Mariners Point Group Campground on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Mariners Point Group Campground (Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Mariners Point Group Campground is reservable and not bookable
Dear Alex Padilla, I’m a constituent in California. Mariners Point Group Campground, Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, California is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 2 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Mariners Point Group Campground on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Mariners Point Group Campground (Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, California) via campanac.com