U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · CA

North Tule Campground

2Heads up2 fires, nearest 41 mi
Wildfire
Land fire · 41 mi away · 20 acres · updated Oct 11, 2026
Wildfire
Carrier fire · 42 mi away · updated Oct 17, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Drawn from the record · 720 ft · 0% tree cover · Lake Success within reach · Bortle 4 sky
720 ftElevation
1,057 ftWater · Lake Success
3.3 miNE of East Porterville, CA
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 1061st darkest of 1,201 in CA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

This recreation area is part of Success Lake

Around the campground

On the water
Lake
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe agency’s record
Runs itU.S. Army Corps of Engineersthe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 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.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
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

rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight63°Clear
Saturday89°Sunny1% rain
Saturday Night61°Clear1% rain
Sunday88°Sunny

NWS forecast for East Porterville, CA

Typical weather

Typical October night 53°F, day 82°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 39°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

110°30°

Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more

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.

Measured at: PORTERVILLE, CA (USC00047077), 7 miles away and 327 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Watch
Giant Sequoia National Monumentclimate, logging · 20 mi
Roadless
Black Mtn.15,102 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 9, 2026

Who answers for this land

Vince Fong, official portrait

North Tule Campground is in California’s 20th congressional district. Its representative, Vince Fong (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 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.
Cell signal: the Army Corps’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.