U.S. Forest Service · Los Padres National Forest · CA
Pine Springs Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 9 mi
Wildfire
Pinos fire · 8.7 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Danny fire · 20 mi away · 150 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 13, 2026
Wildfire
Shore fire · 20 mi away · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Cornell fire · 25 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Wildfire
Lac-374499 fire · 27 mi away · updated Oct 17, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 17, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
5,830 ftElevation
2.3 miWater · Piru CreekOcean · 28.7 mi · to the Pacific Ocean
8.4 miS of Pine Mountain Club, CA
13%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 974th darkest of 1,201 in CA
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
Pinyon pine shaded camp. 12 campsites.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
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.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Adventure Pass Required per vehicle per night or the Annual Interagency Pass, Senior Interagency Pass, or Interagency Access Pass can be used in lieu of the Adventure Pass.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near hereThorn Meadows CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 4.6 miHalfmoon CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 4.7 miChula Vista Walk-in CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 8.4 mi
Mt. Pinos CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 8.6 mi
McGill Campground and Group CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 8.7 miDutchman CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 9.0 mi
Mt. Pinos CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 8.6 miMcGill Campground and Group CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 8.7 miDutchman CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 9.0 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight44°Mostly Clear
Saturday72°Sunny
Saturday Night41°Mostly Clear
Sunday72°Sunny
NWS forecast for Pine Mountain Club, CA
Source: National Weather Service, LOX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
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.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 30, 2026
Who answers for this land
Pine Springs Campground is in California’s 26th congressional district. Its representative, Julia Brownley (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.