Moore Creek
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 10 – September 12Open May 10 through September 12
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Moore Creek Campground is situated on the McCloud Arm of Shasta Lake. This cozy campground is partially shaded and can accommodate both tents and RVs. Camping at Moore Creek provides easy access to a variety of water sports, as well as the opportunity to enjoy scenic views and abundant wildlife. Keep reading
Recreation
The nearest public boat ramp is 4 miles away at Hirz Bay. Boat rentals and fuel are available at nearby lakefront resorts. Shasta Lake is popular for power and non-motorized boating, fishing and water skiing. Anglers can fish for trout, catfish, Chinook salmon, crappie, bluegill, white sturgeon, brown bullhead and bass.
Facilities
All campsites have picnic tables, fire rings, tent pads, bear boxes and paved parking spurs. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
Shasta-Trinity is the largest national forest in California with a diverse landscape encompassing five wilderness areas, hundreds of mountain lakes and 6,278 miles of streams and rivers. Lake Shasta sits at an elevation of 1,067 feet, with 365 miles of shoreline punctuated by steep mountains blanketed in manzanita and evergreens. A snow-capped Mount Shasta, the second-tallest mountain in the Cascade Range, looms in the distance.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby Hirz Mountain Lookout offers panoramic views of Mt. Shasta, Mt. Lassen and the surrounding area at an elevation of 3,500 feet.
What the agency tells you
Group reservation holders must contact Shasta Recreation Office at least 1 week prior to arrival for a combination code to access campground; failure to do so could lead to a locked facility without access for a night or longer and no refund
Maximum group size is 90
Average maximum trailer size is 16 feet
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Bears frequent the area; Keep food in bear-proof containers
Poison oak is abundant in the area
There is a $16 daily use fee for Hirz Bay public boat ramp
Click here for further information on this campground
Click here for more information 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 12 P.M.
No Amplified Sound!
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…bear boxes and paved parking spurs. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…paved parking spurs. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features Shasta-Trinity is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Water sports
- Night sky · 501st darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
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 · 25
What you actually pay
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 records · the site map
All 14 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 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.
| AREA MOORE CREEK | 001 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 196 ftShasta Lake | $170 |
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX | unnamed record | 40 ft | $140 | |
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX1 | unnamed record | $140 | ||
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX10 | unnamed record | $140 | ||
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX11 | unnamed record | $140 | ||
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX12 | unnamed record | $140 | ||
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX2 | unnamed record | $140 | ||
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX3 | unnamed record | $140 | ||
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX4 | unnamed record | $140 | ||
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX5 | unnamed record | $140 | ||
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX6 | unnamed record | $140 | ||
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX7 | unnamed record | $140 | ||
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX8 | unnamed record | $140 | ||
| AREA MOORE CREEK | XXX9 | unnamed record | $140 |
The agency files 13 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
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
Where it is
Hirz CabinWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.2 mi
Dekkas RockWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.2 mi
Hirz BayWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.2 mi
Hirz Bay Group 1Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.2 mi
Hirz Bay Group 2Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.2 mi
Ellery CreekWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.5 miThe campground is 250 miles north of San Francisco. Travel I-5 through Sacramento and Redding. Go ten miles north of Redding and cross Shasta Lake. Remain on I-5 to Gilman Road (From north, take Salt Creek exit to Gilman Road). Take Gilman Road east for 14 miles to the campground entrance on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lakehead, CA
Typical weather
Typical May night 55°F, day 79°F.
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 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
Moore Creek 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.