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U.S. Forest Service · Lassen National Forest · CA

Merrill Campground

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 15 opens May 15.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
A night
$35–$60Across the site types the agency prices
Sites
172168 on recreation.gov
Season
May 1 – October 31Open May 1 through October 31
Photos · .
178 ftLongest rig
5,140 ftElevation
1,795 ftWater · Eagle Lake
10.8 miNW of Susanville, CA
41%Tree cover
Open May 1 through October 31Today

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices

In the agency’s own words

Merrill Campground is located in the Eagle Lake Recreation Area of the Lassen National Forest. This recreation area has five campgrounds, three designated day use areas and a marina on the south shore of Eagle Lake. All of these recreation facilities are connected by a 5.2 mile paved hiking/bike trail. The Osprey Overlook, another day use area in the recreation area, can be hiked or driven to for a scenic view of the southern end of Eagle Lake and the surrounding forest basin. The Lassen National Forest offers a variety of lakes, streams and wilderness areas for recreational opportunities. The forest offers miles of trails that are used for hiking, mountain biking, off-highway vehicle riding and in the winter months, snowmobiling. Keep reading

Recreation

Fishing for the Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout, a California Heritage Trout, is the primary recreational activity on Eagle Lake, but the 3rd largest natural lake in California (22,000 acres), provides for plenty of room for swimming, kayaking, skiing and all other boating activities by motor or sail. There are no 2-cycle restrictions for outboard boat motors or PWCs.

Facilities

Merrill Campground is a unique US Forest Service facility. Totally rebuilt in the early 2000s, it is the prototypical RV park in a Forest Service campground. With 57 full hook-up sites, 64 partial hook-up sites and 51 standard, no hook-up sites, Merrill offers whatever type of site you prefer. Partial hook-up sites have water and electric, no sewer. All electric hook-up sites have a 50, a 30 and two 20 amp outlets provided. All site camping/parking spurs are at least 45 feet, but most are 55 to 75 feet in length, and are essentially double wide. Each site is equipped with a table and a campfire ring with grill. The campground has flush toilets, potable water points, grey water dumps, limited WIFI and firewood is available for purchase. An RV Dump Station Facility is conveniently located just outside the campground with a $5 dump fee. Forty-five sites, #15-#42 and #57-#75, are designated walk-in sites, the other 125 are reservation sites. The paved bike path runs through the campground. The Eagle Lake Marina store with gas, propane, fishing and camping supplies, shower and laundry facilities and boat launch are located 2.5 miles from the campground.

Natural Features

Eagle Lake is located where the Sierras meet the Cascades at the southwestern end of the lake, and the Modoc Plateau of the Great Basin at the northeastern end. This unique location offers diverse landscapes, geology, wildlife and vegetation. Merrill Campground is located in a mature conifer forest of pines and firs on the southern shoreline of Eagle Lake, at an elevation of 5,100 feet.

Nearby Attractions

The Lassen National Forest has many other recreational opportunities and the Lassen Volcanic National Park is an easy day’s drive to and from Eagle Lake Recreational Area.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground

Rule

Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.

Rule

Fire Restrictions: 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.

Everything else this campground posts · 3
Rule

Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.

Rule

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.

Rule

Click here for more information on the Lassen National Forest

Read them on the agency’s own page →
Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
172 · 2 group
Hookups
117 electric, 120 water, 57 sewer
Longest rig
178 ft
Paved pads
171 of 172
Accessible sites
8
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets
“…ring with grill. The campground has flush toilets, potable water points, grey water dumps, limited…”
Drinking water
Yes
“…grill. The campground has flush toilets, potable water points, grey water dumps, limited WIFI and firewood…”
Dump station
Yes
Boat ramp
Yes
Firewood
Sold here
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Creek, Beach
Biking
Swimming
Night sky · 236th darkest of 1,201 in CA
Bortle 2
Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 33 km away
Peak color
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (33 km) · Oct 4, 2026

Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:08 UTC

recreation.gov lists 168 of the 172 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 15, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 15, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
A night$35–$60plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$78–$128DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Sat, May 15 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, per site$35–$60
No Hook-Up/Dry Camp Site$35
Partial Hook-Up Site$50
Full Hook-Up Site$60
Group area, a night$80
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Sep 8, 2026 to Oct 31, 2026.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
One nightDerived$43–$68
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$78–$128

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $35–$60 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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
Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026
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
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: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:08 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

302 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 167 mapped sites
39 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Most room157 185 ft098 138 ft158 120 ft122 102 ft164 99 ft
Least room036 13 ft037 13 ft005 15 ft
Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 302 records

171 of 302 records located
Standard51RV / electric114Group2Type not stated4
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Aerial · Esri World Imagery
Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026
Imagery: Esri World Imagery
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The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 172 of the 302 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.

MERRILL CAMPGROUND001standard electric74 ft50 amp36 ft1,501 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND002standard electric79 ft50 amp36 ft1,467 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND003standard electric69 ft50 amp32 ft1,484 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND004standard electric83 ft50 amp32 ft1,455 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND005standard electric71 ft50 amp15 ft1,466 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND006standard electric68 ft50 amp15 ft1,451 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND007standard electric62 ft50 amp26 ft1,459 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND008standard electric75 ft50 amp26 ft1,435 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND009standard electric61 ft50 amp25 ft1,449 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND010standard electric70 ft50 amp25 ft1,424 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND011standard electric66 ft50 ampyes42 ft1,443 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND012standard electric75 ft50 amp42 ft1,413 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND013standard electric76 ft50 amp49 ft1,409 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND015type not stated69 ft50 amp1,537 ft$50
MERRILL CAMPGROUND016standard electric80 ft50 ampyes62 ft1,559 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND017group standard electric172 ft50 amp62 ft1,591 ft$80
MERRILL CAMPGROUND018standard electric74 ft50 amp44 ft1,571 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND019standard electric74 ft50 amp44 ft1,608 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND020standard electric75 ft50 amp96 ft1,590 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND021standard electric77 ft50 amp96 ft1,641 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND022standard electric80 ft50 amp41 ft1,612 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND023standard electric75 ft50 amp41 ft1,651 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND024standard electric64 ft50 amp48 ft1,617 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND025standard electric79 ft50 ampyes48 ft1,648 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND026standard electric74 ft50 ampyes71 ft1,606 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND027standard electric61 ft50 amp90 ft1,127 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND028standard electric50 ft50 amp49 ft1,152 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND029standard electric60 ft50 amp49 ft1,109 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND030standard electric56 ft50 amp25 ft1,129 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND031standard electric53 ft50 amp25 ft1,104 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND032standard electric52 ft50 amp20 ft1,112 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND033standard electric48 ft50 amp20 ft1,093 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND034standard electric54 ft50 amp28 ft1,107 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND035standard electric55 ft50 amp28 ft1,078 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND036standard electric47 ft50 amp13 ft1,088 ft$50–$60
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MERRILL CAMPGROUND047standard electric57 ft50 amp96 ft1,241 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND048standard electric51 ft50 amp27 ft1,227 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND049standard electric55 ft50 amp27 ft1,251 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND050standard electric53 ft50 amp33 ft1,240 ft$50–$60
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MERRILL CAMPGROUND053standard electric51 ft50 amp41 ft1,282 ft$50–$60
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MERRILL CAMPGROUND056standard electric43 ft50 amp82 ft1,253 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND057standard nonelectric59 ft58 ft818 ft$35
MERRILL CAMPGROUND058standard nonelectric50 ft46 ft804 ft$35
MERRILL CAMPGROUND059standard nonelectric56 ft46 ft830 ft$35
MERRILL CAMPGROUND060standard nonelectric53 ft59 ft763 ft$35
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MERRILL CAMPGROUND126standard electric58 ft50 amp28 ft1,341 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND127standard electric51 ft50 amp37 ft1,367 ft$50–$60
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MERRILL CAMPGROUND130standard electric55 ft50 amp43 ft1,330 ft$50–$60
MERRILL CAMPGROUND131standard electric52 ft50 amp37 ft1,362 ft$50–$60
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The agency files 130 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

The records with no site name: Derived by CAMPANAC from the agency’s own campsite records: recreation.gov files some overnight records with no site name, only a row of X characters. A block is read as the campground’s own sites, filed without names, only where the agency types those records as campsites rather than MANAGEMENT, gives each one a coordinate, and their numbering continues the campground’s own numbered sites with no gap. Everything else is left uncounted, and where the evidence doesn’t decide the record is counted as no kind of site rather than guessed at · Sep 12, 2026
Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

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 302 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Coordinate40.54812, -120.81201
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near hereEagle CampgroundLassen National Forest · 1.5 miWest Eagle CampgroundLassen National Forest · 1.6 miChristie CampgroundLassen National Forest · 1.9 miAspen Grove Campground (CA)Lassen National Forest · 2.0 miGoumazLassen National Forest · 9.6 miRoxie Peconom CampgroundLassen National Forest · 13 mi
Getting there

From Susanville, California, take Highway 36 west for 2 miles to County Road A-1. Turn north and continue 14 miles to the Eagle Lake Recreation Area. Continue past Gallatin Road, the first highway you will come to in the lake basin, and follow the signs to Merrill Campground. Located on County Road A-1.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon68°Sunny
Tonight37°Mostly Clear
Saturday73°Sunny
Saturday Night34°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Spaulding, CA

Source: National Weather Service, REV forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 36°F, day 67°F.

Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 36°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°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: SUSANVILLE 2SW, CA (USC00048702), 12 miles away and 928 ft lower
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Merrill 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.

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now. Its own recreation database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 168 of the 172 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026
Season: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.058 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 1,201 rated federal campgrounds in California · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (33 km) · Oct 4, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported peak color · Oct 4, 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: Spaulding, CA, 6.6 mi S (a census designated place). Straight line.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026