North Pines Campground
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $16–$48Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 9981 on recreation.gov
- Season
- April 21 – October 26Open April 21 through October 26
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
For the 2026 season, North Pines campground utilized a one-time Early Access Lottery that allowed successful applicants to make a reservation within the entire 2026 season. Additional information may be found on Yosemite’s website. Any remaining availability will be released during normal on-sale dates beginning with the February 15 on-sale. When not on a lottery, campsites at North Pines are available up to five months in advance on the 15th of each month at 7:00 a.m. (PT). Keep reading
For example, on February 15, arrival dates for the time period June 15 to July 14 become available to reserve, and therefore, the full arrival date window would be from season opening to July 14. North Pines Campground is located in breathtaking Yosemite National Park in Central California's rugged Sierra Nevada Mountain Range at an elevation of 4000 feet. The site is situated in the heart of Yosemite Valley, an awe-inspiring landscape containing many of the famous features for which Yosemite National Park is known. Within Yosemite, visitors can gaze upon waterfalls, sheer granite cliffs, deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, vast wilderness areas and so much more. Reservation tips! Campsites in Yosemite are extremely popular and typically sell out in minutes on the regular on-sale dates. Login to your account or create a new account before the 7:00 a.m. (PST) release time. You may only add reservations to your cart and proceed with your reservation if you are logged into your account. The recreation.gov call center does NOT have access to additional sites or additional information beyond what is published on recreation.gov. Yosemite National Park Campground Reservation Dates Recreation Yosemite's trails, cliffs, roads and rivers provide endless recreational activities for any kind of visitor. Hiking, biking, rock climbing, fishing, horseback riding, rafting, auto touring, and photography are all very popular activities within the park. Hiking trails range from the easy paved, two-mile roundtrip walk to Mirror Lake/Meadow, to the grueling but rewarding 14- to 16-mile trek to Half Dome (permit required). Both of these trails begin near the Pines Campgrounds, and many additional trailheads are within Yosemite Valley. Rafting the Merced River is a fun way to cool down on a summer day when water levels are sufficient. Yosemite Valley also offers numerous guided bus tours, educational programs, museums, ranger-led activities,and an art center with workshops.
Facilities
North Pines Campground is one of the three reservation campgrounds in Yosemite Valley. It offers paved roads and parking spurs, flush toilets, and drinking water. Each campsite contains a picnic table, fire ring, and a food storage locker. Yosemite's free shuttle bus stops near the campground entrance. Nearby, historic Curry Village offers showers (for a fee), a general store, restaurants and bar, amphitheater, and a tours and activities desk.
Natural Features
Yosemite Valley is forested with a diverse mix of California black oak, Ponderosa pine, Incense-cedar, White fir, and Whiteleaf Manzanita, which offers a pleasant combination of sun and shade. Through the trees, Yosemite's telltale granite cliff faces are visible, and the gentle, refreshing Merced River flows nearby. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (209) 372-8502.
Nearby Attractions
Within one to two hours, visitors can drive or ride a shuttle bus to some of Yosemite's most grand viewpoints and historic sites. Glacier Point offers sweeping views of Yosemite Valley, Little Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, Vernal and Nevada Falls, and Clouds Rest, among other notable landmarks. A visit to Wawona and the Pioneer Yosemite History Center is like stepping back in time. The Tioga Road offers a 39-mile scenic drive past forests, meadows, lakes, and granite domes. Tuolumne Meadows embodies the high-country of the Sierra Nevada, with its broad sub-alpine meadows and granite domes and peaks. Beautiful Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is home to spectacular scenery and numerous wilderness trailheads.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations more than 48 hours in advance of arrival date only incur a $10 transaction fee. Within 48 hours, $10 and the first night's fee are charged (Exception: 1 night reservations do not incur an additional $10 fee, but do not receive a refund). No-shows will be assessed a $20 service fee along with the loss of the first night's fee.
What the agency tells you
You are responsible for reading the site alerts and booking a site that will accommodate your equipment.
If arriving one or more days late, call (209) 372-8502; your reservation will be cancelled if we do not hear from you within 24 hours of your arrival date.
You must check-in at the campground kiosk upon arrival. After-hours arrivals must sign-in and return to the kiosk to complete check-in the following morning or your reservation may be cancelled.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Bears and other wildlife live here! Food and toiletries must be properly stored 24 hours/day. - Food storage lockers are provided in all campsites and measure 43 inches wide, 28 inches high and 35 inches deep. - Absolutely no food stored in vehicles. - Dispose of garbage immediately in bear-proof dumpsters.
There are no electric, water or sewer hook-ups available at individual campsites, although a free dump station and drinking water are located nearby at Upper Pines.
Your camping reservation does NOT get you into Yosemite for free. You must pay an additional fee per vehicle at the park entrance or buy a pass ahead of time on recreation.gov.
Road conditions can change at any time; before arrival, please call (209) 372-0200 for road and weather conditions inside Yosemite, and 1-800-427-ROAD for conditions outside the park.
For additional park information, visit www.nps.gov/yose
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Help Yosemite be a Zero Landfill park! Leave excess packaging at home. Use refillable water bottles, food containers and travel mugs. Place all of your recyclable waste in designated recycling containers. For more information go to: https://www.nps.gov/yose/getinvolved/zlf.htm
Resale or auction of advance reservations is prohibited.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 99
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 63 of 99
- Accessible sites
- 5
- Pets
- Allowed at 92 of 93 sites
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 7 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Reservoir, Lake, River, Meadow
- Night sky · 357th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 39 km away
- Peak color
Full this Saturdayread 14:46 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
1 campground has sites open within 30 miles, read 15:00 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 81 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 19. read 14:46 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 18
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$48 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.
“Cancellations more than 48 hours in advance of arrival date only incur a $10 transaction fee. Within 48 hours, $10 and the first night's fee are charged (Exception: 1 night reservations do not incur an additional $10 fee, but do not receive a refund).” · this campground’s own no-show 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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 1
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 15:00 UTC
- Recreation PointSierra National Forest · 29 mi · 6 of 7 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 14:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
99 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 81 mapped sitesAll 99 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 82 of the 99 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. 81 of the 99 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.
| Backpacker's | Backpacker's 1 person | type not stated | 24 ft | |||||
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| Backpacker's | Backpacker's 3 people | type not stated | 24 ft | |||||
| Backpacker's | Backpacker's 4 people | type not stated | 24 ft | |||||
| Backpacker's | Backpacker's 5 people | type not stated | 24 ft | |||||
| Backpacker's | Backpacker's 6 people | type not stated | 24 ft | |||||
| North Pines | 101 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 28 ft | 102 ftMerced River | 234 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 103 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 25 ft | 93 ftMerced River | 213 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 105 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 25 ft | 95 ftMerced River | 190 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 107 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 34 ft | 95 ftMerced River | 160 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 109 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 46 ft | 76 ftMerced River | 140 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 111 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 59 ft | 74 ftMerced River | 113 ft | $36 |
| North Pines | 113 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 62 ft | 59 ftMerced River | 126 ft | $36 |
| North Pines | 115 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 33 ft | 172 ftMerced River | 93 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 116 | type not stated | 24 ft | |||||
| North Pines | 118 | type not stated | 24 ft | |||||
| North Pines | 119 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | yes | 46 ft | 198 ftMerced River | 132 ft | $36 |
| North Pines | 120 | type not stated | 24 ft | |||||
| North Pines | 122 | type not stated | 24 ft | |||||
| North Pines | 123 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 37 ft | 231 ftMerced River | 187 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 125 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 37 ft | 261 ftMerced River | 217 ft | $36 |
| North Pines | 126 | type not stated | 24 ft | |||||
| North Pines | 128 | type not stated | 40 ft | 306 ft | 248 ft | |||
| North Pines | 129 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 49 ft | 319 ft | 190 ft | $36 |
| North Pines | 131 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 45 ft | 273 ft | 144 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 132 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 58 ft | 254 ft | 202 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 134 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 58 ft | 196 ft | 170 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 135 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | 30 ft | 230 ft | 107 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 136 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 84 ft | 123 ft | 126 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 200 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 37 ft | 224 ft | 52 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 201 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | 30 ft | 240 ft | 93 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 203 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 37 ft | 314 ft | 158 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 204 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 34 ft | 309 ft | 138 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 206 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | 34 ft | 343 ft | 172 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 207 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 37 ft | 339 ftMerced River | 187 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 208 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | 30 ft | 316 ftMerced River | 173 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 209 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 36 ft | 299 ftMerced River | 176 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 210 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 30 ft | 288 ftMerced River | 148 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 212 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 33 ft | 257 ftMerced River | 114 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 213 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 36 ft | 265 ftMerced River | 153 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 214 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 50 ft | 217 ftMerced River | 72 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 215 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 31 ft | 201 ftMerced River | 138 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 217 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 31 ft | 180 ftMerced River | 153 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 218 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | 94 ft | 133 ftMerced River | 58 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 219 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 29 ft | 155 ftMerced River | 172 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 301 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 36 ft | 196 ft | 35 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 303 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 35 ft | 179 ft | 59 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 305 | rv nonelectric | 24 ft | 35 ft | 212 ft | 83 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 306 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 43 ft | 288 ft | 196 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 307 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 56 ft | 268 ft | 124 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 308 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | 37 ft | 332 ft | 166 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 309 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 45 ft | 319 ft | 155 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 310 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 30 ft | 354 ftMerced River | 167 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 311 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 37 ft | 337 ftMerced River | 197 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 312 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 27 ft | 334 ftMerced River | 139 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 313 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 37 ft | 302 ftMerced River | 180 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 314 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 27 ft | 308 ftMerced River | 126 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 315 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 47 ft | 241 ftMerced River | 139 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 316 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 62 ft | 246 ftMerced River | 137 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 318 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 22 ft | 189 ftMerced River | 142 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 319 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 19 ft | 197 ftMerced River | 128 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 320 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 22 ft | 167 ftMerced River | 157 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 321 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 19 ft | 178 ftMerced River | 117 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 322 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 23 ft | 137 ftMerced River | 192 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 323 | rv nonelectric | 38 ft | 33 ft | 145 ftMerced River | 113 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 400 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 32 ft | 179 ftMerced River | 136 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 401 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 64 ft | 241 ftMerced River | 46 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 402 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 35 ft | 149 ftMerced River | 152 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 403 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 33 ft | 184 ftMerced River | 104 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 404 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | 33 ft | 112 ftMerced River | 180 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 405 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 33 ft | 167 ftMerced River | 129 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 500 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 142 ft | 333 ft | 105 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 501 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | 32 ft | 159 ftMerced River | 168 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 502 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 46 ft | 141 ft | 298 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 503 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | 29 ft | 170 ftMerced River | 209 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 504 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 46 ft | 118 ftMerced River | 306 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 505 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | 29 ft | 150 ftMerced River | 207 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 506 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 82 ft | 69 ftMerced River | 294 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 507 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | 36 ft | 127 ftMerced River | 203 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 509 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 46 ft | 88 ftMerced River | 218 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 511 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 33 ft | 79 ftMerced River | 212 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 513 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 32 ft | 118 ftMerced River | 190 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 515 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 23 ft | 114 ftMerced River | 203 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 517 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 37 ft | 113 ftMerced River | 102 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 519 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 49 ft | 131 ftMerced River | 53 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 520 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 63 ft | 34 ftMerced River | 134 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 522 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 40 ft | 27 ftMerced River | 180 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 524 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 33 ft | 37 ftMerced River | 205 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 525 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 23 ft | 145 ftMerced River | 199 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 526 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 33 ft | 35 ftMerced River | 234 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 527 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 23 ft | 145 ftMerced River | 186 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 529 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 54 ft | 119 ftMerced River | 148 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | 531 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 33 ft | 141 ftMerced River | 91 ft | $36 | |
| North Pines | C | type not stated | 38 ft | |||||
| North Pines | D | type not stated | 38 ft | |||||
| North Pines | E | type not stated | 24 ft | |||||
| North Pines | F | type not stated | 32 ft | |||||
| North Pines | G | type not stated | 32 ft | |||||
| North Pines | U | type not stated | 24 ft |
25 of 99 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lower Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 0.1 mi
Upper Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 0.4 mi
Camp 4Yosemite National Park · 2.1 mi
Porcupine Flat CampgroundYosemite National Park · 4.6 mi
Yosemite Creek CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.1 mi
Bridalveil Creek CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.2 miTake Highway 41 north from Fresno, Highway 140 east from Merced, or Highway 120 east from Manteca into Yosemite National Park. Follow signs to Yosemite Valley and the campgrounds.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Yosemite Valley, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 71°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical April night 38°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 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 · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
North Pines Campground 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 · 4
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The office that runs itYosemite National ParkNational Park Service unit
- 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
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks the National Park Service to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up, and to post what that share is.
Subject Hold back a share of sites at North Pines Campground for campers who drive up
To the National Park Service, Yosemite National Park: I tried to camp at North Pines Campground in California and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 81 of the 99 campsites the agency files at North Pines Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 81 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. North Pines Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m asking for one specific thing: set aside a published share of the sites at North Pines Campground as first-come, first-served, and post what that share is so it can be checked. Somebody who drives up has no way in, and no way to find out whether they might have had one. Sent about North Pines Campground (Yosemite National Park, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at North Pines Campground, Yosemite National Park, California
Dear Tom McClintock, I’m a constituent in California’s 5th district. I tried to camp at North Pines Campground, Yosemite National Park, California, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 81 of the 99 campsites the agency files at North Pines Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 81 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. North Pines Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run North Pines Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the National Park Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about North Pines Campground (Yosemite National Park, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at North Pines Campground, Yosemite National Park, California
Dear Adam B. Schiff, I’m a constituent in California. I tried to camp at North Pines Campground, Yosemite National Park, California, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 81 of the 99 campsites the agency files at North Pines Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 81 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. North Pines Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run North Pines Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the National Park Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about North Pines Campground (Yosemite National Park, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at North Pines Campground, Yosemite National Park, California
Dear Alex Padilla, I’m a constituent in California. I tried to camp at North Pines Campground, Yosemite National Park, California, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 81 of the 99 campsites the agency files at North Pines Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 81 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. North Pines Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run North Pines Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the National Park Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about North Pines Campground (Yosemite National Park, California) via campanac.com