Pine Point (Shasta Lake, CA)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 151 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pine Point Campground is situated along the McCloud Arm of Shasta Lake and offers sites to both tent and RV campers. Visitors to this area can enjoy boating and fishing at the nearby Shasta Lake or hiking around the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
The nearest public boat ramp is 4 miles away at Hirz Bay. Nearby lakeside resorts offer boat rentals and fuel. Shasta Lake is popular for power and non-motorized boating, fishing and water skiing. Anglers can fish for trout, catfish, Chinook salmon, crappie, bluegill, white sturgeon, brown bullhead and bass.
Facilities
All campsites have picnic tables, grills, fire rings, tent pads, bear boxes and paved parking spurs. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
Shasta-Trinity is the largest national forest in California with a diverse landscape encompassing five wilderness areas, hundreds of mountain lakes and 6,278 miles of streams and rivers. Lake Shasta sits at an elevation of 1,067 feet, with 365 miles of shoreline punctuated by steep mountains blanketed in manzanita and evergreens. A snow-capped Mount Shasta, the second-tallest mountain in the Cascade Range, looms in the distance.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby Hirz Mountain Lookout offers panoramic views of Mt. Shasta, Mt. Lassen and the surrounding area.
What the agency tells you
Group reservation holders must contact Shasta Recreation Office 530-275-8113 at least 1 week prior to arrival to receive the combination code to access campground; failure to do so could result in the inability to reach campground without a refund
Maximum group size is 100
Average maximum trailer size is 24 feet
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Keep food in bear-proof containers
Poison oak is abundant in the area
Click here for more information on this campground
Click here to learn more about the Shasta-Trinity National Forest
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.
Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out time 12 P.M.
No Amplified Sound!
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 15
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…bear boxes and paved parking spurs. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…paved parking spurs. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features Shasta-Trinity is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Water sports
- Night sky · 438th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 15 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 · 25
What you actually pay
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
16 records · the site map
All 16 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. 15 of the 16 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.
| AREA PINE POINT | 001 | type not stated | 249 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 002 | type not stated | 199 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 003 | type not stated | 148 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 004 | type not stated | 119 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 005 | type not stated | 82 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 006 | type not stated | 121 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 007 | type not stated | 112 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 008 | type not stated | 196 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 009 | type not stated | 170 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 010 | type not stated | 184 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 011 | type not stated | 195 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 012 | type not stated | 323 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 013 | type not stated | 315 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | 014 | type not stated | 246 ft | $150 | |
| AREA PINE POINT | GS | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 179 ft | $170 |
| AREA PINE POINT | XXX | unnamed record | 40 ft | $150 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. 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
Where it is
McCloud BridgeWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.8 mi
Ellery CreekWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 0.9 mi
Hirz Mountain Lookout1.2 mi
Moore CreekWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.4 mi
Dekkas RockWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 3.7 miFrom Redding, California: Take I-5 to Gilman Road. (From the north, take Salt Creek exit to Gilman Road). Take Gilman Road east for 18 miles to the entrance of Pine Point Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lakehead, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°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
Pine Point (Shasta Lake, CA) 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.