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

Mill Creek Campground

4Heads up4 fires, nearest 30 mi
Wildfire
Rock fire · 30 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Rock 2 fire · 31 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
West fire · 33 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Hill fire · 40 mi away · 2 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Drawn from the record · 1,630 ft · 0% tree cover · Mill Creek within reach · Bortle 3 sky
1,630 ftElevation
133 ftWater · Mill Creek
17.7 miNE of Upper Lake, CA
0%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 380th darkest of 1,201 in CA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

The stream flow is best in winter and early spring. Small roadside campground.

Around the campground

On the water
Creek
OHV riding
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.

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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe agency’s record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3

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
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
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 · 4

rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon88°Sunny
Tonight58°Mostly Clear
Saturday85°Sunny
Saturday Night55°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Stonyford, CA

Typical weather

Typical October night 45°F, day 79°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 32°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°20°

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.

Measured at: EAST PARK RSVR, CA (USC00042640), 7 miles away and 425 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Roadless
Snow Mountain14,457 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Briscoe7,212 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 30, 2026

Who answers for this land

Mill Creek 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.

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
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: Stonyford, CA, 5.5 mi W (a census designated place). Straight line.