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Pyramid Lake - Los Alamos Campground

5Heads up5 fires, nearest 7 mi
Wildfire
Lac-374499 fire · 7.1 mi away · updated Oct 17, 2026
Wildfire
Lac-371632 fire · 7.1 mi away · updated Oct 15, 2026
Wildfire
Danny fire · 7.4 mi away · 150 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 13, 2026
Wildfire
Shore fire · 7.4 mi away · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Archer fire · 13 mi away · updated Oct 17, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 17, 2026
Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:00 UTC
Why it’s closed, and what’s open near hereTell me when it comes back
Right now
Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:00 UTC
A night
$26–$45When it reopens, per site
Sites
96In the agency’s record
Photos · ANF
35 ftLongest rig
2,580 ftElevation
26 ftWater · Pyramid Lake
11 miNW of Hasley Canyon, CA
n/aTree cover · water-masked cell

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices

In the agency’s own words

Los Alamos Campground is located 90 minutes from Los Angeles, offering a restful experience without the lengthy travel time. Guests enjoy the beauty of the nearby Pyramid Lake at the base of mountains, and the excitement of lake activities like jet skiing and wakeboarding. Water in Pyramid Lake takes a long journey from Plumas National Forest and Oroville Dam in northern California. An aqueduct carries the water down through the Tehachapi Mountains to its southern California resting point at Pyramid Lake. Keep reading

Recreation

Visitors can view lovely wildflowers and watch for birds. Jogging, mountain biking and motorcycle riding are enjoyable activities in the area. Various festivals take place at the lake throughout the year. Anglers can find striped, large, and smallmouth bass, rainbow trout, crappie and bluegill in Pyramid Lake. Boating and jet skiing are a big draw.

Facilities

The campground offers 90 single family sites and 3 group campsites. Each group site fits 40 guests and 10 vehicles. Volleyball courts are provided for extra camping entertainment and the area has flush toilets and fresh drinking water. Sites come with picnic tables and grills. Some parking aprons are paved, but most are sandy gravel. A dump station is available and a camp general store is also on-site.

Natural Features

Campsites are set back away from Pyramid Lake in the hills above the Santa Clarita Valley. The campsites are mostly open, but some trees offer limited shade to campers in Loop 3. Pyramid Lake spans 1,300 acres with 21 miles of shoreline. Pyramid Rock, the lake's namesake, is south of the lake's dam in Piru Gorge. A diverse variety of animal life exists in Angeles National Forest. Birds and squirrels are commonly seen. Other wildlife includes bobcat, mountain lion, bear and Nelson bighorn sheep.

Nearby Attractions

The Vista Del Lago Visitor Center offers sweeping views of Pyramid Lake on its wraparound viewing platform. It also provides a giant map room with intriguing facts about California's geology and water supply systems. The Hungry Valley Off-Road State Vehicular Recreation Area is just minutes away, offering opportunities for off-road vehicle riding.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in approved containers

Rule

No RV hookups available

Rule

Boat trailers are allowed in a campsite, but are considered part of the two vehicle maximum.

Everything else this campground posts · 5
Rule

Quagga Mussle Inspections at Pyramid Lake: Please be aware that these inspections are taking place at the entrance to Pyramid Lake for all vessels not previously inspected. Be prepared for inspections and always arrive with your vessel CLEAN, DRAINED AND DRY of all water. For more information visit: www.dfg.ca.gov/invasives/quaggamussel .

Rule

Campsite reservation fee covers 8 people and 2 vehicle. Maximum number of people per site is 8. Maximum number of vehicles per site is 2. Additional Vehicles require an addtional campsite reservation

Rule

For more information on Angeles National Forest, click here

Rule

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.

Rule

Standard Nonelectric sites cost $26/night for up to 8 people. There will be an additional fee of $10 per additional person. We apologize for any inconvenience but this facility does not accept the Interagency Access Pass or the Interagency Senior Pass.

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

Tents and rigs

Sites
96 · 3 group
Hookups
None
Longest rig
35 ft
Paved pads
3 of 96
Accessible sites
1
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets
“…camping entertainment and the area has flush toilets and fresh drinking water. Sites come with picnic…”
Drinking water
Yes
“…and the area has flush toilets and fresh drinking water. Sites come with picnic tables and grills. Some…”
Dump station
Yes
Store
Nearby
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Beach
Biking
Boating
Fishing
Hiking
Swimming
Water sports
Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 1076th darkest of 1,201 in CA
Bortle 4
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 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 · Sep 8, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:00 UTC

recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend

OpenBookedClosed

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
A night, when it reopens$26–$45plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
What’s open near here
Tell me when it reopens

Watch for it to come back

One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.

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 agency reopens it.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, when it reopens$26–$45
Standard Nonelectric$26
Standard Nonelectric-Premium$45
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Oct 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.
Standard Nonelectric sites cost $20/night for up to 6 people and 2 vehicles.
We also have Premium Sites/with Shade Ramada Standard Non Electric - Sites: 47, 49, 50, 53, 55 - FULL SHADE Nightly Rate: $35.00 per night for both Non Peak and Peak Season Holiday Weekends$40
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

“There will be an additional fee of $5 per additional person and $10.00 extra vehicle charge for Standard and Group Sites.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record

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

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
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 U.S. Forest Service’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
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
Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Pyramid Lake - Los Alamos Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.

Closure: U.S. Forest Service status record · Oct 17, 2026

There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.

Open within 60 miles · 4

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 17, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 15:00 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

96 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 93 mapped sites
73 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Most roomGSB 332 ftGSC 332 ftGSA 216 ftLoop 4 64 186 ftLoop 3 46 137 ft
Least roomLoop 2 41 51 ftLoop 2 44 51 ftLoop 2 43 52 ft
Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 96 sites

93 of 96 sites located
Standard90Group3
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Aerial · Esri World Imagery
Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026
Imagery: Esri World Imagery
SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 93 of the 96 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 93 of the 96 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Loop 101standard nonelectric35 ft71 ft3,028 ft143 ft$26–$45
Loop 102standard nonelectric35 ft61 ft3,097 ft114 ft$26–$45
Loop 103standard nonelectric35 ft75 ft3,033 ft70 ft$26–$45
Loop 104standard nonelectric35 ft61 ft3,126 ft86 ft$26–$45
Loop 105standard nonelectric35 ft74 ft3,103 ft94 ft$26–$45
Loop 106standard nonelectric35 ft98 ft3,238 ft224 ft$26–$45
Loop 107standard nonelectric35 ft98 ft3,203 ft267 ft$26–$45
Loop 108standard nonelectric35 ft89 ft3,063 ft211 ft$26–$45
Loop 109standard nonelectric35 ft69 ft3,041 ft126 ft$26–$45
Loop 110standard nonelectric35 ft69 ft2,999 ft94 ft$26–$45
Loop 111standard nonelectric35 ft72 ft2,878 ft193 ft$26–$45
Loop 112standard nonelectric35 ft69 ft2,942 ft122 ft$26–$45
Loop 113standard nonelectric35 ft108 ft2,815 ft248 ft$26–$45
Loop 114standard nonelectric35 ft120 ft2,828 ft281 ft$26–$45
Loop 115standard nonelectric35 ft74 ft2,933 ft274 ft$26–$45
Loop 116standard nonelectric35 ft71 ft2,971 ft200 ft$26–$45
Loop 217standard nonelectric35 ft97 ft3,518 ft288 ft$26–$45
Loop 218standard nonelectric35 ft73 ft3,448 ft242 ft$26–$45
Loop 219standard nonelectric35 ft70 ft3,468 ft167 ft$26–$45
Loop 220standard nonelectric35 ft70 ft3,498 ft97 ft$26–$45
Loop 221standard nonelectric35 ft106 ft3,601 ft73 ft$26–$45
Loop 222standard nonelectric35 ft$26–$45
Loop 223standard nonelectric35 ft108 ft3,711 ft159 ft$26–$45
Loop 224standard nonelectric35 ft71 ft3,610 ft84 ft$26–$45
Loop 225standard nonelectric35 ft102 ft3,783 ft270 ft$26–$45
Loop 226standard nonelectric35 ft105 ft3,887 ft359 ft$26–$45
Loop 227standard nonelectric35 ft125 ft3,956 ft470 ft$26–$45
Loop 228standard nonelectric35 ft125 ft3,847 ft420 ft$26–$45
Loop 229standard nonelectric35 ft80 ft3,680 ft295 ft$26–$45
Loop 230standard nonelectric35 ft78 ft3,692 ft233 ft$26–$45
Loop 231standard nonelectric35 ft56 ft3,620 ft222 ft$26–$45
Loop 232standard nonelectric35 ft56 ft3,579 ft277 ft$26–$45
Loop 233standard nonelectric35 ft56 ft3,529 ft251 ft$26–$45
Loop 234standard nonelectric35 ft56 ft3,578 ft176 ft$26–$45
Loop 235standard nonelectric35 ft74 ft3,455 ft147 ft$26–$45
Loop 236standard nonelectric35 ft67 ft3,558 ft111 ft$26–$45
Loop 237standard nonelectric35 ft72 ft3,490 ft77 ft$26–$45
Loop 238standard nonelectric35 ft74 ft3,378 ft176 ft$26–$45
Loop 239standard nonelectric35 ft68 ft3,305 ft255 ft$26–$45
Loop 240standard nonelectric35 ft72 ft3,445 ft109 ft$26–$45
Loop 241standard nonelectric35 ft51 ft3,282 ft348 ft$26–$45
Loop 242standard nonelectric35 ft68 ft3,369 ft199 ft$26–$45
Loop 243standard nonelectric35 ft51 ft3,371 ft338 ft$26–$45
Loop 244standard nonelectric35 ft51 ft3,329 ft300 ft$26–$45
Loop 245standard nonelectric35 ft51 ft3,377 ft293 ft$26–$45
Loop 346standard nonelectric35 ft137 ft4,165 ft272 ft$26–$45
Loop 347standard nonelectric35 ft137 ft4,229 ft136 ft$26–$45
Loop 348standard nonelectric35 ft58 ft4,249 ft141 ft$26–$45
Loop 349standard nonelectric35 ftyes71 ft4,250 ft66 ft$26–$45
Loop 350standard nonelectric35 ft57 ft4,193 ft136 ft$26–$45
Loop 351standard nonelectric35 ft58 ft4,201 ft194 ft$26–$45
Loop 352standard nonelectric35 ft64 ft4,137 ft240 ft$26–$45
Loop 353standard nonelectric35 ft57 ft4,139 ft193 ft$26–$45
Loop 354standard nonelectric35 ft74 ft4,039 ft298 ft$26–$45
Loop 355standard nonelectric35 ft65 ft4,097 ft217 ft$26–$45
Loop 356standard nonelectric35 ft54 ft3,973 ft348 ft$26–$45
Loop 357standard nonelectric35 ft54 ft3,923 ft394 ft$26–$45
Loop 458standard nonelectric35 ft89 ft4,481 ft406 ft$26–$45
Loop 459standard nonelectric35 ft75 ft4,569 ft439 ft$26–$45
Loop 460standard nonelectric35 ft68 ft4,425 ft144 ft$26–$45
Loop 461standard nonelectric35 ft68 ft4,486 ft185 ft$26–$45
Loop 462standard nonelectric35 ft75 ft4,644 ft495 ft$26–$45
Loop 463standard nonelectric35 ft85 ft4,569 ft261 ft$26–$45
Loop 464standard nonelectric35 ft186 ft4,796 ft556 ft$26–$45
Loop 465standard nonelectric35 ft72 ft4,647 ft332 ft$26–$45
Loop 466standard nonelectric35 ft72 ft4,698 ft262 ft$26–$45
Loop 467standard nonelectric35 ft67 ft4,774 ft191 ft$26–$45
Loop 468standard nonelectric35 ft67 ft4,822 ft227 ft$26–$45
Loop 469standard nonelectric35 ft78 ft4,887 ft165 ft$26–$45
Loop 470standard nonelectric35 ft78 ft4,840 ft94 ft$26–$45
Loop 471standard nonelectric35 ft$26–$45
Loop 472standard nonelectric35 ft67 ft4,982 ft153 ft$26–$45
Loop 473standard nonelectric35 ft60 ft5,042 ft219 ft$26–$45
Loop 474standard nonelectric35 ft125 ft5,167 ft337 ft$26–$45
Loop 475standard nonelectric35 ft60 ft5,028 ft231 ft$26–$45
Loop 476standard nonelectric35 ft75 ft5,073 ft303 ft$26–$45
Loop 477standard nonelectric35 ft65 ft4,966 ft198 ft$26–$45
Loop 478standard nonelectric35 ft56 ft4,903 ft134 ft$26–$45
Loop 479standard nonelectric35 ft78 ft4,961 ft258 ft$26–$45
Loop 480standard nonelectric35 ft56 ft4,881 ft79 ft$26–$45
Loop 481standard nonelectric35 ft83 ft4,848 ft178 ft$26–$45
Loop 482standard nonelectric35 ft102 ft4,714 ft181 ft$26–$45
Loop 483standard nonelectric35 ft76 ft4,741 ft94 ft$26–$45
Loop 484standard nonelectric35 ft81 ft4,646 ft198 ft$26–$45
Loop 485standard nonelectric35 ft76 ft4,667 ft169 ft$26–$45
Loop 486standard nonelectric35 ft75 ft4,570 ft266 ft$26–$45
Loop 487standard nonelectric35 ft79 ft4,611 ft235 ft$26–$45
Loop 488standard nonelectric35 ft75 ft4,526 ft310 ft$26–$45
Loop 489standard nonelectric35 ft102 ft4,605 ft290 ft$26–$45
Loop 490standard nonelectric35 ft71 ft4,413 ft104 ft$26–$45
Loop 491standard nonelectric35 ft72 ft4,454 ft149 ft$26–$45
Loop 492standard nonelectric35 ft$26–$45
Loop 493standard nonelectric35 ft108 ft4,351 ft83 ft$26–$45
PYRAMID LAKE - LOS ALAMOS CAMPGROUNDGSAgroup standard nonelectric25 ft216 ft4,504 ft610 ft
PYRAMID LAKE - LOS ALAMOS CAMPGROUNDGSBgroup standard nonelectric25 ft332 ft4,972 ft1,000 ft
PYRAMID LAKE - LOS ALAMOS CAMPGROUNDGSCgroup standard nonelectric25 ft332 ft4,747 ft1,056 ft
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 96 listed

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

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Coordinate34.65000, -118.76667
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near herePyramid Lake - Emigrant Landing Day Use AreaAngeles National Forest · 0.0 miOak Flat CampgroundAngeles National Forest · 4.3 miLos Alamos CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 4.4 miBear CampgroundAngeles National Forest · 8.8 miKings CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 10 miSawmill CampgroundAngeles National Forest · 12 mi
Getting there

From Valencia, California, drive 20 miles north on Interstate 5, then take the Smokey Bear exit west. Make a left on Pyramid Lake Road. Take a right at Hard Luck Road and continue 1.5 miles to the campground.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026
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

Today81°Mostly Sunny
Tonight56°Mostly Clear
Sunday81°Sunny
Sunday Night55°Clear

NWS forecast for Hasley Canyon, CA

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

Typical weather

Typical October night 53°F, day 77°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 37°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: FAIRMONT, CA (USC00042941), 20 miles away and 480 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

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Salt Creek11,022 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Sespe - Frazier4,254 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Fish Canyon29,886 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Who answers for this land

George Whitesides, official portrait

Pyramid Lake - Los Alamos Campground is in California’s 27th congressional district. Its representative, George Whitesides (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: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 15:00 UTC). U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 96 of the 96 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 14, 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: 1.1 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 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.
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