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Wildfire
River fire · 45 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 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
Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
Drawn from the record · 550 ft · 0% tree cover · Bortle 4 sky
550 ftElevation
1.3 miWater · Pine Creek
6.7 miNW of Chico, CA
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 859th darkest of 1,201 in CA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

There are 10 sites at Mill Creek Campground and some sites are reservable. Two of the sites are walk-in sites. All sites are on the shore of Bucks Lake. Hiking is immediately available along the Mill Creek Trail which leaves from this campground. This site has water, vault toilets, and is suitable for tents and small trailers. There are bear boxes at each site for food storage.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…this campground. This site has water, vault toilets, and is suitable for tents and small trailers.…”
Bear boxes
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description

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 16, 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 · 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
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
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
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 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 Afternoon91°Sunny
Tonight61°Clear
Saturday87°Sunny
Saturday Night60°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Cohasset, CA

Typical weather

Typical October night 51°F, day 80°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°30°

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: ORLAND, CA (USC00046506), 21 miles away and 296 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

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’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
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: Cohasset, CA, 4.1 mi W (a census designated place). Straight line.