Oak Flat Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 3 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
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. Help keep bears wild by following these tips. Overview of Site: Elevation: 2,800-feet in elevation Amenities: 20 campsites with picnic tables and campfire rings, vault toilets. Keep reading
There is currently no piped water available. Please bring enough water for cooking, cleaning, drinking, and extinguishing campfires. Fees: Camping - Adventure Pass/America the Beautiful Pass Required. Campsites are first come-first served. No reserving or holding of campsites allowed. Day use - Adventure Pass/America the Beautiful Pass Required. Hiking: A short walk to the trail behind the fire station leads to local Whitaker Peak. RV's: Maximum RV length is 22' - No hookups. Oak Flat Campground is located on the north west side of the forest with easy access off the I-5 freeway. With 20 campsites, grab the family and spend the weekend roasting marshmallows around the campfire, go on a hike to Whitaker Peak, or hop in your vehicle for a short drive to the cool waters of Piru Creek at Frenchmens Flat.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with picnic tables and campfire rings, vault toilets. There is currently no piped water available.…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “There is currently no piped water available.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Pyramid Lake - Emigrant Landing Day Use AreaAngeles National Forest · 4.3 mi
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the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hasley Canyon, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 53°F, day 77°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Oak Flat Campground is in California’s 27th congressional district. Its representative, George Whitesides (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →