Pearch Creek Campground
1Heads up1 fire 33 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 9All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Open mid-May through mid-October. Campsite List calendar is for the next reservable dates. Pearch Creek Campground lies just north of the small town of Orleans in the Klamath river valley of the Six Rivers National Forest. Lush foliage provides welcome shade and relative privacy for each of the campground's sites. Keep reading
Recreation
Salmon and steelhead fishing in the nearby Klamath River is considered some of the best in northern California. Both Klamath and Salmon Rivers are popular destinations for whitewater rafting, swimming and kayaking. Both are within a short drive.
Facilities
The campground offers 10 single-family campsites. All are suitable for tent camping, and RVs can access sites 1, 6-10. Each site has a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Many have vintage rock stoves as well. A vault toilet and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
The campground is located in a mature Douglas fir and hardwood forest. The sound of nearby Pearch Creek can be heard from most sites and the campground remains shady and cool during hot summer days. Moss-covered rocks and tree trunks add to the cooling atmosphere of Pearch Creek.
Nearby Attractions
Trailheads to the Marble Mountain Wilderness
What the agency tells you
This is bear country; bear-resistant food storage containers are a must.
Campsites 2, 3, 4 and 5 are not recommended for trailers and RVs due to road limitations
Fees apply for additional vehicles.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
There are no sewer, water, or electric hookups.
Some campsites are not located exactly where they are depicted on this campsite map.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
Click here to learn more about the Six Rivers National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 38 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Many have vintage rock stoves as well. A vault toilet and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rock stoves as well. A vault toilet and drinking water are provided. Natural Features The campground is…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 66th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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.
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
10 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sites5 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 10 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 9 of the 10 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA PEARCH CREEK CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 298 ft | $10 | |
| AREA PEARCH CREEK CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 346 ft | $10 | |
| AREA PEARCH CREEK CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 298 ft | $10 | |
| AREA PEARCH CREEK CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 73 ft | 379 ft | $10 |
| AREA PEARCH CREEK CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 25 ft | 311 ft | $10 |
| AREA PEARCH CREEK CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 130 ft | 168 ft | $10 |
| AREA PEARCH CREEK CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 346 ft | $10 | |
| AREA PEARCH CREEK CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 109 ft | 370 ft | $10 |
| AREA PEARCH CREEK CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 819 ft | 479 ft | $10 |
| AREA PEARCH CREEK CAMPGROUND | Host | host pad | 40 ft | 298 ft | $10 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Oak Bottom CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 5.9 mi
Nordheimer Group SitesKlamath National Forest · 8.2 miNordheimer Main CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 8.4 miAikens Creek West CampgroundSix Rivers National Forest · 8.9 miE-Ne-Nuck CampgroundSix Rivers National Forest · 8.9 mi
Fish Lake CampgroundSix Rivers National Forest · 9.1 miFrom Orleans, California, follow State Highway 96 north approximately 1.5 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Weitchpec, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 46°F, day 71°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 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
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
Pearch Creek Campground is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →