Paha
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $32–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2221 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Paha Campground is located just 10 miles from Bridgeport, California, next to Robinson Creek at an elevation of 7,000 feet. The Twin Lakes area is close by, offering boating, fishing, hiking and horseback riding opportunities. Reservations are non-transferable. Re-selling of reservations will render the reservation invalid. If you hold an invalid reservation, you will not be permitted to camp on the site. Keep reading
Recreation
Robinson Creek offers good rainbow trout fishing and can be easily accessed from within the campground. Numerous hiking trails are in the vicinity, including the popular Robinson Creek Trail.
Facilities
The campground contains several single-family sites, one of which is ADA accessible, and there are two double sites and one furnished yurt. All sites are equipped with picnic tables, food storage lockers and campfire rings with grills. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Firewood is available for purchase. Robinson Creek South Campground is nearby, where educational programs are held at its amphitheater on weekends from July 4 through Labor Day.
Natural Features
The campground is situated alongside Robinson Creek, where a forest of massive Jeffrey pines towers over the site, offering partial shade. Lodgepole pines, sagebrush and summer wildflowers dot the landscape.
Nearby Attractions
Upper and Lower Twin Lakes are nearby, offering beautiful mountain scenery, boating, canoeing and fishing for Kokanee salmon and rainbow and brown trout. The rugged and scenic Hoover Wilderness Area can be accessed from the Twin Lakes area and offers additional trails for hiking and horseback riding.
Charges & Cancellations
Reservation sites will be held until check out time (12 pm) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the Campground Manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
Caution: black bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in approved containers. All ice chests must be stored out of sight.
Click here for more info about the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forests
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Reserved sites: will be held until checkout time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of the second day to hold the reservation, or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Please call the office at 760-932-7092 if you need to inform the campground of an arrival time greater than 24 hours after your arrival date, or if you will not use your reservation whatsoever.
Vehicles: One RV with tow per single site or one vehicle per tent site is included with your reservation. Most sites can accommodate One (1) extra vehicle that is NOT included with the reservation fee. An Extra vehicle fee will be required per day to be paid at the time of arrival at the campground. Extra vehicles must fit on the parking spur.
Pass Discounts: If you use a pass discount you must provide your pass and photo identification upon check in or upon Camp Host request. If you received a pass discount for which you weren't eligible you must pay the difference in price upon arrival.
Six (6) Person limit for single sites. There is a max of 6 people per campsite. If you exceed this number, purchase a second site and spread your group and equipment out evenly between campsites. This is to protect natural resources and minimize noise levels.
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither Recreation.gov Contact center nor the Camp Host or Campground manager will be able to modify your reservation. If you no longer want the site, you have reserved you will need to cancel that reservation and pay at the campground for the site you desire. There is no exchange for sites.
Falling objects- don't linger under dead, cracked or broken branches. Run if you hear cracks or snapping from tree roots, trunks, or branches (know that sometimes there is no sound and very little time to react). Report falling branches and trees to a Ranger.
Do not build additional fire rings. Glass, aluminum, and food are prohibited in fire rings. Logs must fit within the fire ring. Chainsaws are not allowed. Fires must be extinguished completely with water and be cool to the touch before leaving campsite or going to bed.
Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions or red flag warnings. At which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. Please check with Camp host.
Pets must be on a leash and under the owners' control while in the campground. Owners are responsible for any damage the pet causes. Aggressive pets may be asked to leave the campground for campers' safety and enjoyment.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…lockers and campfire rings with grills. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings with grills. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Firewood is…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Night sky · 122nd darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 2.8 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 21 of the 22 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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
“Extra vehicle fee of $6 per vehicle per night is due at the kiosk in the campground.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $32–$50 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.
“Reservation sites will be held until check out time (12 pm) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov C…” · this campground’s own 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 · 7
rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 21 mapped sitesAll 22 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 21 of the 22 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. 22 of the 22 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.
| ADBL | 002 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 86 ft | 378 ft | 1,089 ft | $32–$50 | |
| ADBL | 004 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 79 ft | 358 ft | 958 ft | $32–$50 | |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 022 | type not stated | 45 ft | $32 | ||||
| PAHA | 001 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 86 ft | 292 ft | 1,063 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 003 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 71 ft | 279 ft | 928 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 243 ft | 859 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 77 ft | 290 ft | 822 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 007 | yurt | 30 ft | 95 ft | 181 ft | 705 ft | $60 | |
| PAHA | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 79 ft | 154 ft | 780 ft | $32–$50 |
| PAHA | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 57 ft | 47 ft | 695 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 010 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 57 ft | 49 ft | 641 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 66 ft | 77 ft | 579 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 012 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 66 ft | 73 ft | 524 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 82 ft | 14 ft | 442 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | under 10 ft | 394 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 015 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 119 ft | 19 ft | 440 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 016 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 77 ft | 98 ft | 822 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 017 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 73 ft | 73 ft | 940 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 24 ft | 991 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 019 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 71 ft | 104 ft | 1,104 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 020 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 71 ft | 145 ft | 1,051 ft | $32–$50 | |
| PAHA | 021 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 77 ft | 164 ft | 874 ft | $32–$50 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lower Twin Lake CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 0.5 mi
Lower Twin Lakes at BridgeportToiyabe National Forest · 0.6 mi
Robinson Creek NorthToiyabe National Forest · 0.6 mi
Robinson Creek SouthToiyabe National Forest · 0.6 mi
Crags CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 1.2 mi
Honeymoon FlatToiyabe National Forest · 1.6 miTake U.S. Highway 395 through Bridgeport. Turn south on Twin Lakes Road at the Shell gas station. Travel 9.6 miles on Twin Lakes Road. Turn left into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Twin Lakes, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 24°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 10°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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.
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.
Who answers for this land
Paha 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 →