Mono Creek
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 22 mi
Reservable everywhere but bookable nowhere.Ask the agency →
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $37–$77Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 13None on recreation.gov
- Season
- June 1 – September 30Open June 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mono Creek Campground is located in the High Sierras above Kaiser Pass. This quiet, remote campground is situated in a peaceful meadow near Mono Hot Springs at an elevation of 7,500 feet. Visitors enjoy hiking, fishing, boating and horseback riding. Keep reading
Recreation
Most recreational activities are centered around nearby Edison Lake and Mono Hot Springs. Interpretive programs, hiking, trout fishing, boating and horseback riding are popular pastimes. Hot mineral baths can be enjoyed at Mono Hot Springs.
Facilities
Each campsite has a picnic table, grill and bear-proof food storage locker. No water source is available on-site, but potable water is available at the High Sierra Ranger Station. Accessible vault toilets are provided.
Natural Features
Campsites are spacious, private and shaded by mature Ponderosa pines within the Sierra National Forest on the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada. The forest is known for its spectacular mountain scenery and abundant natural resources. The terrain includes rolling, oak-covered foothills, heavily forested middle elevation slopes and the starkly beautiful alpine landscape of the High Sierra. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (559) 893-2308.
Nearby Attractions
The Mono Creek Trail, which can be accessed at Edison Lake, leads hikers and horseback riders to the network of trails within the John Muir Wilderness. This includes the scenic Pacific Crest Trail, which spans from Mexico to Canada.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
RVs and motor homes over 25 feet are not recommended on Kaiser Road due to single-lane road with blind curves.
No water source available
Be bear aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating; always keep a clean camp and do not feed any wild animals.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Two pets per site and leashed at all times.
Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle for single site or one vehicle for single tent camping. Two RV’S with tow vehicle per double site or two vehicles for double tent only camping. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests.
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
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.
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Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 13
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 2 of 13
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…High Sierra Ranger Station. Accessible vault toilets are provided. Natural Features Campsites are…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Lake, Creek, Meadow
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Ranger programs
- Night sky · 318th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 30 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system
recreation.gov lists none of the 13 campsites the agency files here. Whatever these sites are, a reservation isn’t how you get one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $37–$77 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.
“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
13 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sites8 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 13 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 13 of the 13 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 11 of the 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA MONO CREEK | FS1- 301 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 237 ft | 768 ft | $37 | |
| AREA MONO CREEK | FS1- 302 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 251 ft | 749 ft | $37 | |
| AREA MONO CREEK | FS1-401 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 224 ft | 697 ft | $37 | |
| AREA MONO CREEK | FS1-402 | standard nonelectric | 201 ft | 679 ft | $37 | ||
| AREA MONO CREEK | FS1-403 | standard nonelectric | 201 ft | 679 ft | $37 | ||
| AREA MONO CREEK | FS1-404 | standard nonelectric | 178 ft | 680 ft | $37 | ||
| AREA MONO CREEK | FS1-405 | standard nonelectric | 178 ft | 680 ft | $37 | ||
| AREA MONO CREEK | FS1-406 | standard nonelectric | 157 ft | 684 ft | $37 | ||
| AREA MONO CREEK | FS1-407 | standard nonelectric | 157 ft | 684 ft | $37 | ||
| AREA MONO CREEK | FS1-408 | standard nonelectric | 139 ft | 695 ft | $37 | ||
| AREA MONO CREEK | FS1-409 | standard nonelectric | 139 ft | 695 ft | $37 | ||
| AREA MONO CREEK | Scan & Pay 1 | type not stated | 40 ft | 235 ft | 712 ft | ||
| AREA MONO CREEK | Scan & Pay 2 | type not stated | 30 ft | 233 ft | 731 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
VermillionSierra National Forest · 1.8 mi
Mono Hot SpringsSierra National Forest · 2.3 miBolsillo CampgroundSierra National Forest · 3.7 miWard Lake CampgroundSierra National Forest · 3.8 miPortal Forebay CampgroundSierra National Forest · 4.6 mi
Jackass MeadowSierra National Forest · 5.5 miFrom Clovis, California, take Highway 168 north 70 miles to Huntington Lake Campground office at Eastwood. Take Kaiser Pass Road to Mono Creek Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mammoth Lakes, CA
Typical weather
Typical June night 43°F, day 66°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 43°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August 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
Mono Creek is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record marks Mono Creek reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its campsites. The draft asks why, and what it would take to fix it.
- The member who votes the moneyTom McClintockU.S. Representative · California’s 5th 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
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Mono Creek is reservable and not bookable
Dear Tom McClintock, I’m a constituent in California’s 5th district. Mono Creek, Sierra National Forest, California is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 13 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Mono Creek on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Mono Creek (Sierra National Forest, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Mono Creek is reservable and not bookable
Dear Adam B. Schiff, I’m a constituent in California. Mono Creek, Sierra National Forest, California is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 13 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Mono Creek on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Mono Creek (Sierra National Forest, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Mono Creek is reservable and not bookable
Dear Alex Padilla, I’m a constituent in California. Mono Creek, Sierra National Forest, California is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 13 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Mono Creek on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Mono Creek (Sierra National Forest, California) via campanac.com