Minersville Campground
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $22–$60Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 14All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
This campground, located 17 miles north of Weaverville, CA, off Highway 2, is situated on the Stuart Fork Arm of Trinity Lake. Minersville is one of the more popular campgrounds on Trinity Lake due to its easy access to the lake and scenic views. At 2,400 foot elevation, it is nestled in a stand of mixed conifers and deciduous trees. Trinity Lake is one of three Forest Service-managed lakes in the Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, offering excellent opportunities for houseboating, water skiing, tubing and wakeboarding. Keep reading
Recreation
The area offers excellent opportunities for fishing, kayaking, hiking and wildlife viewing. Directly adjacent to the campground is the Minersville Boat Ramp. Informal mooring of boats is possible off some of the campsites. Rainbow trout are abundant, and brown and brook trout are common. This is a good lake for a float tube and excellent fly fishing. The area offers wonderful wildlife viewing opportunities. Hikers can access the 4-mile Trinity Lakeshore Trail at nearby Clark Springs Campground.
Facilities
The first section of the campground is well-developed with paved, level parking aprons and amenities. The second section is mostly walk-in with good privacy between campsites, and more primitive with a wilderness feel. There are six walk-in campsites (four single, two double). In addition, there are two accessible campsites 8 & 4 . Sites have picnic tables and campfire rings with grills. Two flush toilets and one vault toilet are available. Drinking water is provided, and bear-proof containers are available. Showers are available at the neighboring Bushy Tail Campground.
Natural Features
Minersville Campground is noted for a "campground with a view." Many campsites are located on the bank of Trinity Lake with views of the Trinity Alps, noted for their scenic views and alpine environment. The Trinity Alps are situated within the Klamath Mountains, which lies between the Pacific Coast Ranges to the west and the Cascade Range farther to the east.
What the agency tells you
Average maximum trailer size is 36 feet
Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.
Site 1 is the only electrical site within the facility
Everything else this campground posts · 4
There is a $12 fee for Minersville Boat Ramp
Learn more about Shasta-Trinity National Forest
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.
Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out time 2 P.M.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 14
- Hookups
- 1 electric
- Longest rig
- 36 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire rings with grills. Two flush toilets and one vault toilet are available. Drinking water…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Showers are available at the neighboring Bushy Tail Campground.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and one vault toilet are available. Drinking water is provided, and bear-proof containers are…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 291st darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:11 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
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.
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 make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 29
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle fee is $12 per night.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$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.
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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:11 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 14 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 14 of the 14 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard electric | 36 ft | 100 amp | 85 ft | 260 ft | $38 |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 85 ft | 321 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 87 ft | 234 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 77 ft | 174 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 46 ft | 134 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 46 ft | 179 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 137 ft | 209 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 74 ft | 345 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 74 ft | 387 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 111 ft | 536 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 139 ft | 591 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 87 ft | 471 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 123 ft | 368 ft | $22–$60 | |
| MINERSVILLE CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 87 ft | 518 ft | $22–$60 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
BushytailWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.5 miRidgeville Boat-In CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.8 miFawn Group CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.7 mi
FawnWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.7 miStoney Creek Group CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.0 miFrom Weaverville: take Highway 3 north for 15 miles. Turn right on Minersville/Bushtail Road for 1 mile.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Weaverville, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 32°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Minersville Campground 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 →