Mt. Whitney Trailhead Campground
1Heads up1 fire 41 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $22From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Located in the "Ravine" on the east side of the overflow parking lot at Whitney Portal, all campsites are walk-in . Camping is not allowed in the parking lot. Sites have flat tent pads and bear proof food lockers. Restrooms are located at the parking lot. No water. One night stay limit.
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…are located at the parking lot. No water. One night stay limit.”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $22 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($22), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Whitney PortalInyo National Forest · 0.6 mi
Lone PineInyo National Forest · 3.1 mi
Tuttle Creek CampgroundBishop Field Office · 6.4 miCottonwood Lakes Walk in CampgroundInyo National Forest · 10 miCottonwood Pass Walk in CampgroundInyo National Forest · 10 mi
Grays MeadowsInyo National Forest · 13 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lone Pine, CA
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
Mt. Whitney Trailhead Campground is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →