Pinyon Flat Campground (San Bernardino National Forest)
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 3 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 41 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Once on-site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. If this option is available, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (760) 862-9984.
What the agency tells you
This campground is First Come, First Served only. The campground is lightly used, and rarely is busy.
Fire Restrictions may be in effect, check in with the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument by calling (760) 862-9984 to confirm. Wood and charcoal fires are permitted. Cooking stoves or fireplaces using gas, jellied petroleum, or pressurized liquid fuel are still allowed.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 4
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 4 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.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 9
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 sites · the site map
All 4 sites
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Pinyon Flat CampgroundSanta Rosa And San Jacinto National Monument · 0.0 mi
Ribbonwood Equestrian CGSanta Rosa And San Jacinto National Monument · 0.6 miAtáxam Mámta’ash CampgroundCleveland National Forest · 20 miIndian Flats CampgroundCleveland National Forest · 20 mi
Marion MountainSan Bernardino National Forest · 21 mi
Fern BasinSan Bernardino National Forest · 21 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Palm Springs, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 57°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 40°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Pinyon Flat Campground (San Bernardino National Forest) is in California’s 41st congressional district. Its representative, Ken Calvert (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →