Patterson Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Patterson Campground is located on the southern end of the South Warner Wilderness area. This is an ideal site to begin one's hike of the Summit Trail. Patterson is a family camp with only 6 sites for tents and small campers and trailers. Equestrian camping is not advisable in Patterson Campground, consider staying at East Creek Campground instead. Patterson Guard Station Directly adjacent to Patterson Campground is Patterson Guard Station. Built in 1921 and renovated in 2022, this cabin is now available for overnight rentals through Rec.gov Reserve Now
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, and a night costs $15 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 ($15), 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
Patterson Guard StationModoc National Forest · 0.1 miEmerson CampgroundModoc National Forest · 5.2 mi
Blue Lake Campground Group Site - Modoc NF (CA)Modoc National Forest · 6.2 miMill Creek Falls CampgroundModoc National Forest · 7.6 mi
Dodge Reservoir CampgroundEagle Lake Field Office · 16 miPepperdine CampgroundModoc National Forest · 18 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Eagleville, 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
Patterson Campground is in California’s 1st congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Doug LaMalfa for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.