Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park
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- Right now
- ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
- Sites
- 145In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Sleep beneath towering maples and young redwoods. Access to Mill Creek, miles of varied hiking trails, and summer programs. Located in Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park. 7 miles south of Crescent City, CA turn east on the campground road. The camp is 2 miles east of the highway. Winter season: this campground is closed from early October to late May.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Coast
Nothing to book until it reopens
Winter season: this campground is closed from early October to late May.
The closure above is the reading. We hold no availability snapshot for this campground, so there’s no thirty-night strip to draw under it.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 2
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 3
What the agency said · 1
Winter season: this campground is closed from early October to late May. Open mid-May to early October Winter Hours 2026-10-01 to 2027-05-07
National Park Service · the source publishes no posting date
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Jedediah Smith Campground - Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park6.4 mi
Big Flat CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 9.6 mi
Panther Flat CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 13 miGrassy Flat CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 15 miPatrick Creek CampgroundSmith River National Recreation Area · 18 mi
Bear Basin Lookout and CabinSmith River National Recreation Area · 20 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bertsch-Oceanview, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 45°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 38°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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 Septembers are colder than the September line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 4
We read the agency’s notice and couldn’t get a reason out of it, so it’s filed as no reason we could read. That reading is ours. The draft to the agency asks what closed Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, what reopening it would cost and what date they’re working towards. The draft to Congress asks them to put the same question in writing and to fund the answer.
- The office that runs itRedwood National ParkNational Park Service unit
- The member who votes the moneyJared HuffmanU.S. Representative · California’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAdam B. SchiffU.S. Senator · California
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAlex PadillaU.S. Senator · California
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who found out at the gate, or a week before the trip. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks what remains to be done at Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, what it costs, and what date they’re working towards.
Subject Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park: what it would take to reopen
To the National Park Service: I was planning to camp at Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park in California and found it closed. The notice says: "Winter season: this campground is closed from early October to late May. Open mid-May to early October Winter Hours 2026-10-01 to 2027-05-07" (https://www.nps.gov/redw/planyourvisit/mill-creek-campground.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) Could you tell me what closed Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, what has to happen before it reopens, and what date you’re working towards? If the answer is funding or staffing you don’t have, please say so plainly. Sent about Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park (California) via campanac.com
Asks them to find out what reopening Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park is closed (California)
Dear Jared Huffman, I’m a constituent in California’s 2nd district. I went to camp at Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, California and found it closed. The notice says: "Winter season: this campground is closed from early October to late May. Open mid-May to early October Winter Hours 2026-10-01 to 2027-05-07" (https://www.nps.gov/redw/planyourvisit/mill-creek-campground.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) The notice doesn’t say what closed it, which is worth asking about on its own. A campground on public land going dark with no stated reason and no reopening date isn’t something the public should have to guess at. Please ask the National Park Service, in writing, what reopening Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 145 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park (California) via campanac.com
Asks them to find out what reopening Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park is closed (California)
Dear Adam B. Schiff, I’m a constituent in California. I went to camp at Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, California and found it closed. The notice says: "Winter season: this campground is closed from early October to late May. Open mid-May to early October Winter Hours 2026-10-01 to 2027-05-07" (https://www.nps.gov/redw/planyourvisit/mill-creek-campground.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) The notice doesn’t say what closed it, which is worth asking about on its own. A campground on public land going dark with no stated reason and no reopening date isn’t something the public should have to guess at. Please ask the National Park Service, in writing, what reopening Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 145 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park (California) via campanac.com
Asks them to find out what reopening Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park is closed (California)
Dear Alex Padilla, I’m a constituent in California. I went to camp at Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, California and found it closed. The notice says: "Winter season: this campground is closed from early October to late May. Open mid-May to early October Winter Hours 2026-10-01 to 2027-05-07" (https://www.nps.gov/redw/planyourvisit/mill-creek-campground.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) The notice doesn’t say what closed it, which is worth asking about on its own. A campground on public land going dark with no stated reason and no reopening date isn’t something the public should have to guess at. Please ask the National Park Service, in writing, what reopening Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 145 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Mill Creek Campground - Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park (California) via campanac.com