U.S. Forest Service · Tahoe National Forest · CA
Meadow Knolls Group Camp
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 33 mi
Wildfire
Old fire · 33 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Rock fire · 39 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 17, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 17, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Season
- July 1 – September 19Open July 1 through September 19
7,350 ftElevation
1,141 ftWater · Meadow Lake
11.5 miNW of Truckee, CA
48%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 708th darkest of 1,201 in CA
Open July 1 through September 19Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Meadow Knolls Group Campground is located on Meadow Lake. This is a beautiful high elevation lake at 7500 feet. Enjoy the views while boating, swimming or riding the nearby OHV trails. It is a popular spot for off-highway vehicle enthusiasts. Two group sites with space for 25 people each are provided. There are no hookups or showers at this campground.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There are no hookups or showers at this campground.”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
- Fall color · reported 11 days ago, 39 km away
- Patchy color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (39 km) · Oct 6, 2026
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note
“$25 per site $3 for extra vehicle $1 for pets” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 5
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near hereMeadow Lake Shoreline Campground0.7 miMeadow Lake CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 1.3 miSterling Lake CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 4.6 miFaucherie Group Campground4.7 mi
Little Lasier Meadows CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 5.2 miCanyon Creek CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 5.3 mi
Little Lasier Meadows CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 5.2 miCanyon Creek CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 5.3 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
This Afternoon64°Sunny
Tonight40°Clear
Sunday61°Sunny
Sunday Night39°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Kingvale, CA
Source: National Weather Service, STO forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical July night 49°F, day 75°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical September night 44°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
80°32°10°
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.
Measured at: DAGGET PASS, NV (USC00262119), 44 miles away and at about the same elevation
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Meadow Knolls Group Camp 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it out of season. The season it publishes is the bar below.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (39 km) · Oct 6, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported patchy color · Oct 6, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Kingvale, CA, 6.9 mi NNW (a census designated place). Straight line.