Mono Hot Springs
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 19 mi
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $37–$74Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 23All of them booked ahead
- Season
- June 1 – September 30Open June 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mono Hot Springs Campground sits above Kaiser Pass in the High Sierra, on the South Fork of the San Joaquin River in an area known for its hot mineral baths. The camp is divided into two sections that are separated by Mono Hot Springs Resort, and some sites are shaded by aspen and lodgepole pine. The campground sits at an elevation of 6,700 feet with many cliffs in the area. It makes a great base for exploring the nearby Ansel Adams and John Muir Wilderness areas or for simply relaxing and enjoying the scenery. Keep reading
Recreation
The Mono Hot Springs area provides opportunities for fishing, birding, mountain biking, hiking and relaxing in the hot springs. Interpretive programs are offered at the campground on Friday nights during the summer. Wading is permitted in the San Joaquin River, which is known for its excellent fly fishing. Trailheads in the area include Devil's Table (5 miles) and Doris Lake (2 miles). The Mono Creek Trail connects Mono Hot Springs to Edison Lake, a hike of about 10 miles round-trip.
Facilities
Each campsite has a picnic table, grill and bear-proof food storage locker. Vault toilets are provided. Drinking water is not available at the camp but can be acquired along with other supplies at the general store at Mono Hot Springs Resort.
Natural Features
The Sierra National Forest, located on the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada, 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
Edison Lake is a popular recreation area nearby offering boating, fishing and horseback riding. From this area, hikers and horseback riders can access the John Muir Wilderness, and the Pacific Crest Trail, which extends 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.
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.
Two pets per site and must be leashed at all times.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
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.
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Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 23
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and bear-proof food storage locker. Vault toilets are provided. Drinking water is not available at…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…locker. Vault toilets are provided. Drinking water is not available at the camp but can be acquired along with other…”
- Store
- Nearby
- 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, River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 348th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 33 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $37–$74 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
23 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 23 mapped sitesAll 23 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 23 of the 23 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. 23 of the 23 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 42 ft | 80 ft | 699 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 26 ft | 141 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 755 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 46 ft | 143 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 877 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 50 ft | 157 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 1,009 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 68 ft | 218 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 1,037 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 007 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 44 ft | 188 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 1,091 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 008 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 44 ft | 150 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 1,114 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 67 ft | 98 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 1,180 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 101 ft | 119 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 1,110 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 50 ft | 126 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 981 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 120 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 849 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 26 ft | 119 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 777 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 42 ft | 97 ft | 738 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 42 ft | 99 ft | 576 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 42 ft | 137 ft | 569 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 55 ft | 190 ft | 556 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 125 ft | 75 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 278 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 136 ft | 148 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 363 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 233 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 458 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 026 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 63 ft | 172 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 485 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 49 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 378 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 031 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 63 ft | 46 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 350 ft | $37–$74 |
| AREA MONO HOT SPRINGS | 032 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 79 ft | 26 ftSouth Fork San Joaquin River | 315 ft | $37–$74 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Mono CreekSierra National Forest · 2.3 miWard Lake CampgroundSierra National Forest · 2.5 miPortal Forebay CampgroundSierra National Forest · 2.7 mi
VermillionSierra National Forest · 3.6 mi
Jackass MeadowSierra National Forest · 4.4 miFrom Clovis, California, take Highway 168 north 70 miles to Huntington Lake Campground office at Eastwood. Take Kaiser Pass Road to Mono Hot Springs Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Big Creek, 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
Who answers for this land
Mono Hot Springs 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 →