Red Feather California
1Heads up1 fire 42 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $36From, per site
- Sites
- 59All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Red Feather Campground is located on the eastern shore of Little Grass Valley Reservoir, providing visitors with ample opportunity to fish, swim, boat, and enjoy nature. It is one of eight campgrounds in the area, providing access to a beautiful mountain lake and various hiking trails that meander through the scenic hills and valleys. Keep reading
Recreation
The 1,615-acre lake provides ample opportunities for visitors to fish, boat, swim, and water ski. Anglers can expect a catch of a variety of trout and kokanee salmon, among other species of fish. Fishing licenses are required. The Lakeshore Trail, which loops 13.5 miles around the lake, is available for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. The trail connects to the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, which stretches from 2,650 miles, across three states from Canada to Mexico. The Lakeshore Trail is popular among day hikers.
Facilities
The campground offers dozens of single-family campsites, available for tent and RV camping. More than a handful of the sites overlook the beautiful lake, while others are surrounded by characteristic mixed-conifer forest and alpine meadows. The Maidu boat launch ramp is located nearby, adjacent to Little Beaver Campground and the Maidu Amphitheater. Campsites are equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Utility hookups are not available. All sites have paved parking spurs. Bear-resistant trash collection bins are located throughout the campground.
Natural Features
The campground is located in the Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California at an elevation of about 5,100 feet. It is on the eastern shore of the Little Grass Valley Reservoir, which was formed by dam construction and subsequent flooding of the valley in the 1960s. The campground and the lake are surrounded by thick stands of pine and fir trees. Several public campgrounds are located around the lake, as well as private cabins on the south side.
Nearby Attractions
About 12 miles northeast of the lake at an elevation of 5,446 feet lies a small, natural lily pond, called Fowler Lake. This beautiful site is perfect for day hikes and picnics.
What the agency tells you
Bears frequent the area; use appropriate containers for food and garbage
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground
For more information on the Plumas National Forest, visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/plumas
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 59
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 57 of 59 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 58 of 59 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 58 of 59 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 21 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 418th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $36 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.
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
59 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 59 mapped sitesAll 59 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 59 of the 59 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LP1 | 001 | standard nonelectric | 145 ft | under 10 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 002 | standard nonelectric | 145 ft | 57 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 148 ft | 172 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 225 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 321 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 006 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 420 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 007 | standard nonelectric | 238 ft | 94 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 212 ft | 142 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 196 ft | 303 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 196 ft | 494 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 201 ft | 399 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 012 | standard nonelectric | 150 ft | 772 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 013 | standard nonelectric | 124 ft | 629 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 124 ft | 637 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 015 | standard nonelectric | 115 ft | 370 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 016 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 484 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 403 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 018 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 305 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 019 | standard nonelectric | 138 ft | 213 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 020 | standard nonelectric | 138 ft | 148 ft | $36 | |
| LP1 | 022 | standard nonelectric | 119 ft | 317 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 023 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 432 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 024 | standard nonelectric | 114 ft | 545 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 025 | standard nonelectric | 104 ft | 535 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 026 | standard nonelectric | 114 ft | 656 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 027 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 648 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 028 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 751 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 029 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 788 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 030 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 850 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 031 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 68 ft | 961 ft | $36 |
| LP2 | 032 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 880 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 033 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 956 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 034 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 857 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 035 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 813 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 036 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 744 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 037 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 555 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 038 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 596 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 039 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 807 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 040 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 858 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 041 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 878 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 042 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 931 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 043 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 893 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 044 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 850 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 045 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 818 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 046 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 730 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 047 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 730 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 048 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 694 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 049 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 626 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 050 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 616 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 051 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 582 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 052 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 669 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 053 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 570 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 054 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 543 ftLittle Grass Valley Reservoir | $36 | |
| LP2 | 055 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 499 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 056 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 411 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 057 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 484 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 058 | standard nonelectric | 128 ft | 366 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 059 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 411 ft | $36 | |
| LP2 | 060 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 734 ft | $36 |
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.
25 of 59 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Horse Campground0.0 mi
Running Deer Campground0.0 miLittle Beaver Campground1.1 miLittle Grass Valley Recreation Area1.9 mi
Little Beaver A CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 2.0 mi
Wyandotte A CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 2.0 miFrom Oroville, California, travel east on Highway 162 to Olive Highway. Turn right and continue 5 miles to Forbestown Road. Turn right and go 16 miles to La Porte Road. Turn left and travel 27 miles to La Porte, then 2 miles to signs for the recreation area. Turn right and continue just over 2 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Little Grass Valley, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
Red Feather California is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →