Markleeville
1Heads up1 fire 44 mi away
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 9All of them booked ahead
- Season
- April 1 – September 30Open April 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located on Markleeville Creek, in the shade of Jeffrey Pines and Cottonwood trees. Keep reading
Facilities
This campground has camping for tents and small RV (less than 24 ft in length). The campsites offer a picnic table, campfire ring, and food storage lockers. Vault toilets and garbage service is provided. There is currently no potable water.
Natural Features
The Markleeville campground sits along side Markleeville Creek in the small town of Markleeville, California. The campground is at an elevation of 5500.
What the agency tells you
Markleeville campground is located on Markleeville creek. The campground is at 5500 elevation. The campground is suitable for tent camping and rigs no larger than 24 ft. Markleeville campground offers vault toilets, garbage collection and bear boxes. At this time there is no potable water. Campground is open mid April to beginning of September.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire ring, and food storage lockers. Vault toilets and garbage service is provided. There is currently…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…service is provided. There is currently no potable water. Natural Features The Markleeville campground sits…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 16 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.
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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $26 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
9 sites
All 9 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. 9 of the 9 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Markleeville | 1 | standard nonelectric | $26 |
| Markleeville | 2 | standard nonelectric | $26 |
| Markleeville | 3 | standard nonelectric | $26 |
| Markleeville | 4 | standard nonelectric | $26 |
| Markleeville | 5 | standard nonelectric | $26 |
| Markleeville | 6 | standard nonelectric | $26 |
| Markleeville | 7 | standard nonelectric | $26 |
| Markleeville | 8 | standard nonelectric | $26 |
| Markleeville | 9 | standard nonelectric | $26 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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Silver CreekToiyabe National Forest · 7.5 mi
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Hope ValleyHope Valley Reservoir Site No. 41 Water Reserve Withdrawal · 8.6 miFrom Carson City or Minden, Nevada
1. Take Highway 88 approximately 14 miles to the junction with Highway 4/89 at Woodfords, California.
2. Turn left on Highway 4/89, proceed for approximately six miles to the Markleeville Campground entrance on the north side of highway (approximately 1/2 mile past the small town of Markleeville).
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Markleeville, CA
Typical weather
Typical April night 33°F, day 63°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical April night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Markleeville 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 →