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

Milsap Bar Campground

1Heads up1 fire 44 mi away
Wildfire
Old fire · 44 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
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$15From, per site
Drawn from the record · 1,750 ft · 42% tree cover · South Branch Middle Fork Feather River within reach · Bortle 3 sky
1,750 ftElevation
279 ftWater · South Branch Middle Fork Feather River
14.9 miNE of Kelly Ridge, CA
42%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 564th darkest of 1,201 in CA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

This location is closed (Affected reservations have been cancelled and refunds have been issued.) Local managers are committed to the health and safety of recreational visitors and our staff. We are following the guidelines from our department and the CDC regarding COVID-19, closely monitoring the situation and responding to current conditions. 12 sites available; this campground lies on the south shore of the Middle Fork Feather River on Forest route 22N62 at the confluence of the Little North Fork of the Middle Fork Feather River and South Branch Feather River. Keep reading

Access is via Brush Creek or Mountain Spring House off Lumpkin Ridge Road. The facility has no water or garbage collection. Pack it in, pack it out for your trash. Road access is not recommended for RVs and trailers . A vault toilet, dedicated campsites, and fire rings are provided. Campfires are prohibited when fire restrictions are in effect. Propane or white gas stoves and lanterns are permitted during fire restrictions with a valid California campfire permit. The vault toilet is currently closed, pending availability of pumping service. Please be prepared to dispose of human waste properly by bringing wag bags or portable sanitation units. Please respect closed areas for protection of natural resources.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…not recommended for RVs and trailers . A vault toilet, dedicated campsites, and fire rings are provided.…”
Drinking water
None, bring your own
“…off Lumpkin Ridge Road. The facility has no water or garbage collection. Pack it in, pack it out for…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
River, 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
A night$15Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$30DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 5

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$15
Night$15
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
One night, fromDerived$15
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$30

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($15), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
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

Today84°Sunny
Tonight58°Clear
Saturday76°Sunny
Saturday Night58°Clear

NWS forecast for Berry Creek, CA

Typical weather

Typical October night 54°F, day 74°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 40°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: PARADISE, CA (USC00046685), 19 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
Bald Rock4,675 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area

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

Who answers for this land

Milsap Bar 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: Berry Creek, CA, 4.5 mi NE (a census designated place). Straight line.