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Putah Canyon Campground- Napa, CA (BOR)

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Gates fire · 23 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
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Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026
ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 1 opens May 1.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$45–$55Across the site types the agency prices
Sites
161160 on recreation.gov
Photos · N/A
420 ftElevation
under 10 ftWater · Lake BerryessaTidal flat · 25.9 mi
10.5 miE of Angwin, CA
n/aTree cover · water-masked cell
Bortle 4Night sky · 1028th darkest of 1,201 in CA

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices

In the agency’s own words

Located in beautiful Napa County, Putah Canyon Campground is approximately 1/2 mile north of Pope Canyon Road, on Berryessa Knoxville Road, Napa, CA. It takes about 45 minutes from both Winters and Napa. Perfect for a quick getaway. Keep reading

Recreation

Boating Fishing Swimming Stand-up Paddleboarding (SUPs) Kayaking Natural Features Putah Canyon Campground is located on the Northwestern shore of Lake Berryessa in Napa County, a resorvior created by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in 1957. The lake has 165 miles of shoreline and some of the best lake fishing in the state. Three quarters of the campsites at Putah Canyon are waterfront sites, giving campers the option to moor their watercraft below their site and enjoy easy lake access. Contact Info This location is staffed. Please call (707) 966-9051 to speak with local staff.

Charges & Cancellations

There is a $10 cancellation fee when you cancel within the 4-day window prior to the start of your reservation If you cancel after the start of your reservation, you will be charged a $10 cancellation fee + the first nights camping fees Requested changes to reservations dates cannot be guaranteed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Watercraft and Boat rentals are offered at this location

Rule

Annual Season Passes can be purchased online through recreation.gov (coming soon)

Rule

After the first 2 people, there is a $5/person per night (Tent Sites: 4 people max; RV Sites 8 people max)

Everything else this campground posts · 6
Rule

Pet fee: $5/night per pet

Rule

Extra Vehicles: $10/night

Rule

Boat launch fee (while camping): $10/day

Rule

Boat Launch Fee (non-camping): $30

Rule

RV Dump Station fee: $25

Rule

You must be checked in by 10pm. Gates close and you will not be permitted until 6am the following morning.

Read them on the agency’s own page →
Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
161 · 54 tent-only, 1 group
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Camp host
On site
recreation.gov lists “Host”
Source: recreation.gov facility record · Sep 9, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Beach
Boating
Fishing
Jet Skiing
Kayaking
Motor Boat
Non-Motorized Boating
Paddle Boating
Picnicking
Swimming
Water Skiing
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:34 UTC

recreation.gov lists 160 of the 161 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 1, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 1, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
A night$45–$55plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$98–$118DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itBureau of ReclamationBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Sat, May 1 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 17

What you actually pay

The sign priceBureau of Reclamation
A night, per site$45–$55
Tent only sites$45
RV & Tent sites$50
RV Sites$55
Group area, a night$300
These are next season’s rates, Oct 2, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026. The campground is between seasons now.
Additional Fees: After the first 2 people, there is a $5/person per night (Tent Sites: 4 people max
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note

“RV Sites: 8 people max) Pet Fee: $5/night per pet Extra Vehicles: $10/night per vehicle Boat Launch Fee (while camping): $10/day Boat Launch Fee (non-camping): $30/day RV Dump Station: $25” · the Bureau of Reclamation’s own fee record

What a stay costs
One nightDerived$53–$63
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$98–$118

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $45–$55 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

“- There is a $10 cancellation fee when you cancel within the 4-day window prior to the start of your reservation - If you cancel after the start of your reservation, you will be charged a $10 cancellation fee + the first nights camping fees - Requested changes to reservations dates cannot be guaranteed” · this campground’s own terms

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 · 7
Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026
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
What this campground adds: The Bureau of Reclamation’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Sep 9, 2026
This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · 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: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 15:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

161 sites

All 161 sites

SleepsUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 160 of the 161 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Putah001tent only nonelectric$45
Putah002tent only nonelectric$45
Putah003tent only nonelectric$45
Putah004tent only nonelectric$45
Putah005tent only nonelectric$45
Putah006tent only nonelectric$45
Putah007tent only nonelectric$45
Putah008tent only nonelectric$45
Putah009tent only nonelectric$45
Putah010tent only nonelectric$45
Putah011tent only nonelectric$45
Putah012tent only nonelectric$45
Putah013tent only nonelectric$45
Putah014tent only nonelectric$45
Putah015tent only nonelectric$45
Putah016tent only nonelectric$45
Putah017tent only nonelectric$45
Putah018tent only nonelectric$45
Putah019tent only nonelectric$45
Putah020tent only nonelectric$45
Putah021tent only nonelectric$45
Putah022tent only nonelectric$45
Putah023tent only nonelectric$45
Putah024tent only nonelectric$45
Putah025tent only nonelectric$45
Putah026rv nonelectric$55
Putah027rv nonelectric$55
Putah028rv nonelectric$55
Putah029rv nonelectric$55
Putah030rv nonelectric$55
Putah031rv nonelectric$55
Putah032rv nonelectric$55
Putah033type not stated
Putah034rv nonelectric$55
Putah035rv nonelectric$55
Putah036tent only nonelectric$45
Putah037tent only nonelectric$45
Putah038tent only nonelectric$45
Putah039tent only nonelectric$45
Putah040tent only nonelectric$45
Putah041tent only nonelectric$45
Putah042tent only nonelectric$45
Putah043tent only nonelectric$45
Putah044tent only nonelectric$45
Putah045tent only nonelectric$45
Putah046tent only nonelectric$45
Putah047tent only nonelectric$45
Putah048tent only nonelectric$45
Putah049tent only nonelectric$45
Putah050rv nonelectric$55
Putah051rv nonelectric$55
Putah052rv nonelectric$55
Putah053rv nonelectric$55
Putah054rv nonelectric$55
Putah055rv nonelectric$55
Putah056rv nonelectric$55
Putah057rv nonelectric$55
Putah058rv nonelectric$55
Putah059rv nonelectric$55
Putah060rv nonelectric$55
Putah061rv nonelectric$55
Putah062rv nonelectric$55
Putah063rv nonelectric$55
Putah064rv nonelectric$55
Putah065rv nonelectric$55
Putah066rv nonelectric$55
Putah067rv nonelectric$55
Putah068rv nonelectric$55
Putah069rv nonelectric$55
Putah070rv nonelectric$55
Putah071rv nonelectric$55
Putah072rv nonelectric$55
Putah073rv nonelectric$55
Putah074rv nonelectric$55
Putah075rv nonelectric$55
Putah076rv nonelectric$55
Putah077standard nonelectric$50
Putah078standard nonelectric$50
Putah079standard nonelectric$50
Putah080tent only nonelectric$45
Putah081tent only nonelectric$45
Putah082tent only nonelectric$45
Putah083standard nonelectric$50
Putah084standard nonelectric$50
Putah085standard nonelectric$50
Putah086standard nonelectric$50
Putah087standard nonelectric$50
Putah088standard nonelectric$50
Putah089standard nonelectric$50
Putah090standard nonelectric$50
Putah091standard nonelectric$50
Putah092standard nonelectric$50
Putah093standard nonelectric$50
Putah094standard nonelectric$50
Putah095standard nonelectric$50
Putah096standard nonelectric$50
Putah097standard nonelectric$50
Putah098standard nonelectric$50
Putah099standard nonelectric$50
Putah100standard nonelectric$50
Putah101standard nonelectric$50
Putah102standard nonelectric$50
Putah103standard nonelectric$50
Putah104standard nonelectric$50
Putah105standard nonelectric$50
Putah106standard nonelectric$50
Putah107standard nonelectric$50
Putah108standard nonelectric$50
Putah109standard nonelectric$50
Putah110standard nonelectric$50
Putah111standard nonelectric$50
Putah112standard nonelectric$50
Putah113tent only nonelectric$45
Putah114tent only nonelectric$45
Putah115tent only nonelectric$45
Putah116tent only nonelectric$45
Putah117tent only nonelectric$45
Putah118tent only nonelectric$45
Putah119tent only nonelectric$45
Putah120tent only nonelectric$45
Putah121standard nonelectric$50
Putah122standard nonelectric$50
Putah123standard nonelectric$50
Putah124standard nonelectric$50
Putah125standard nonelectric$50
Putah126standard nonelectric$50
Putah127standard nonelectric$50
Putah128standard nonelectric$50
Putah129standard nonelectric$50
Putah130standard nonelectric$50
Putah131standard nonelectric$50
Putah132standard nonelectric$50
Putah133standard nonelectric$50
Putah134standard nonelectric$50
Putah135standard nonelectric$50
Putah136standard nonelectric$50
Putah137standard nonelectric$50
Putah138standard nonelectric$50
Putah139standard nonelectric$50
Putah140standard nonelectric$50
Putah141standard nonelectric$50
Putah142standard nonelectric$50
Putah143standard nonelectric$50
Putah144standard nonelectric$50
Putah145standard nonelectric$50
Putah146standard nonelectric$50
Putah147standard nonelectric$50
Putah148tent only nonelectric$45
Putah149tent only nonelectric$45
Putah150tent only nonelectric$45
Putah151standard nonelectric$50
Putah152standard nonelectric$50
Putah153standard nonelectric$50
Putah154standard nonelectric$50
Putah155standard nonelectric$50
Putah156standard nonelectric$50
Putah157standard nonelectric$50
Putah158standard nonelectric$50
Putah159standard nonelectric$50
Putah160standard nonelectric$50
PutahGroup Sitegroup tent only area nonelectric$300
Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 161 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate
Coordinate38.58297, -122.22603
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight61°Clear
Saturday85°Sunny
Saturday Night57°Clear
Sunday78°Sunny

NWS forecast for Moskowite Corner, CA

Source: National Weather Service, MTR forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 47°F, day 79°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 36°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°30°

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.

Measured at: MARKLEY COVE, CA (USC00045360), 8 miles away and 60 ft higher
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Mike Thompson, official portrait

Putah Canyon Campground- Napa, CA (BOR) is in California’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Mike Thompson (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Bureau of Reclamation publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 160 of the 161 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.69 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 1,201 rated federal campgrounds in California · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Cell signal: the Bureau of Reclamation’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.
Nearest place of any size: Moskowite Corner, CA, 8.8 mi N (a census designated place). Straight line.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026