U.S. Forest Service · San Gabriel Mountains National Monument · CA
Mt. Pacifico Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 9 mi
Wildfire
Lac-373293 fire · 9.4 mi away · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Lac-373787 fire · 11 mi away · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Lac-374825 fire · 13 mi away · updated Oct 17, 2026
Wildfire
Lac-373835 fire · 16 mi away · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Norma fire · 17 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 17, 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
7,100 ftElevation
1.9 miWater · West Fork Alder Creek
6.8 miSE of Acton, CA
0%Tree cover
Bortle 5Night sky · 1164th darkest of 1,201 in CA
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Hike-in only, 3N17 is closed from Mill Creek to Alder Saddle. Open seasonally, campgound will close for the season when the first winter storm is projected. General Camping Info : Find helpful guidance and tips for an enjoyable trip to the forest! Know Fire & Other Restrictions Before You Go! : These conditions can affect your entire trip. For example, Extreme and Critical fire use restrictions mean no campfires and no portable cooking systems/stoves. Bring cold food and no S'mores. Be Bear Aware! : Bear safety is critical, for the safety of your group and/or you, as well as our bears. Keep reading
Help keep bears wild by following these tips. Overview of Site Located near the western boundary of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, the campground is accessed by driving the 3N17 FS road from Mill Creek Summit side. Both road 3N17, and the access road to Mt. Pacifico Campground, are open to street legal and off-highway vehicles, while road 3N90 (aka "Roundtop Road") is only open to street-legal vehicles. Campsites are first-come-first-served. Interagency Pass or Adventure Pass required for vehicles parked at this campground. The Pacific Crest Trail passes 1/2 mile north downslope of the campground. Not RV accessible. 7100' elevation. 10 tent-only sites.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- 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 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Adventure Pass Required $5/day or $30/year.
Interagency Passes also accepted.
For more information, please visit our recreation pass page .
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
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
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The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today61°Mostly Sunny
Tonight49°Partly Cloudy
Sunday61°Sunny
Sunday Night49°Clear
NWS forecast for Acton, CA
Source: National Weather Service, LOX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 30, 2026
Who answers for this land
Mt. Pacifico Campground is in California’s 28th congressional district. Its representative, Judy Chu (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →
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.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
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.