Redwood Meadow
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 9 of the next 9 nights; a database flag says not open read 16:04 UTC
- A night
- $36From, per site
- Sites
- 1412 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Redwood Meadow Campground located within Sequoia National Forest, in the southern portion of Giant Sequoia National Monument. The area is named for the giant sequoia, the world's largest tree, which grows in more than 30 groves on the forest's lower slopes. Keep reading
Recreation
Touring the Sequoia National Monument is the area's most popular activity. Hikers enjoy the Trail of a Hundred Giants as it wanders through the ong Meadow Giant Sequoia Grove. Other points of interest within the sourthern section include the Belknap Grove and the Freeman Grove.
Facilities
Redwood Meadow offers 6 singles sites and 6 yurts which can accommodate up to 6 people. No hookups or water available. Vault toilets are provided. This facility is operated by ExplorUS and comments are welcome; comment forms are available from campground hosts or online.
Natural Features
Sequoiia National Forest comprises about 1.1 million acres. Elevations range from about 1,000 to 12,000 feet, creating precipitous canyons and mountain streams with spectacular waterfalls such as Salmon Creek Falls and Grizzly Falls. The campground sits at an evelvation of 6,400 feet, near trails that wind through gian sequoia groves, climb up mountains and meander along wild rivers. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 455-6010.
Nearby Attractions
Trail of a Hundred Giants
What the agency tells you
Water is not available at this campground this season. Water has not been available for over 2 years due to the system breaking down. Please bring all water necessary for the duration of your stay. This would include drinking water, water to clean dishes and put out your campfire, etc. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience and understanding.
Pets must be leashed at all times.
All equipment must fit on the site pad and parked in developed areas only.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
No all-terrain or off-highway vehicle use in the campground.
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.
This is bear country; please take precautions and do not leave unattended food, garbage or other attractants. Use bear resistant food storage lockers or bear resistant trash cans where available. Visit www.sierrawild.gov/bears/food-storage/ for more information about food storage in bear country.
There is an extra vehicle fee of $8.00/night on the 2nd vehicle in each single campsite and on the 3rd & 4th vehicle in any double campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the 1st vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site. In the case of motorcycles, the 1st and 2nd are considered to be one vehicle and the 3rd and 4th are also considered to be one vehicle. So the fee would be a single $8.00/night of stay for the 3rd/4th motorcycle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 14 · 1 tent-only, 6 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- 6
- Pets
- Allowed at 1 of 7 sites
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…6 people. No hookups or water available. Vault toilets are provided. This facility is operated by ExplorUS…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, River, Creek, Meadow
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Night sky · 735th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
Full this Saturdayread 16:04 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
1 campground has sites open within 30 miles, read 16:23 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 10 sites on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 12 are free on Mon, Oct 19. read 16:04 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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 · 15
What you actually pay
“There is an extra vehicle fee of $8.00/night on the 2nd vehicle in each single campsite and on the 3rd & 4th vehicle in any double campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the 1st vehicle by a hitch and tow…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
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 · 6
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 1
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:23 UTC
- TuleSuccess Lake · 19 mi · 110 of 184 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 16:04 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 14 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 12 of the 14 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. 12 of the 14 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 001 | yurt | 20 ft | yes | 44 ft | 240 ft | 824 ft | $116 |
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 002 | yurt | 20 ft | yes | 44 ft | 264 ft | 821 ft | $116 |
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 003 | yurt | 20 ft | yes | 53 ft | 319 ft | 850 ft | $116 |
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | 53 ft | 369 ftLong Meadow Creek | 879 ft | $36 | |
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 005 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 59 ft | 380 ftLong Meadow Creek | 928 ft | $36 | |
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 006 | yurt | 20 ft | 71 ft | 310 ftLong Meadow Creek | 940 ft | $116 | |
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 007 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $36 | ||||
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 48 ft | 266 ftLong Meadow Creek | 1,130 ft | $36 | |
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 009 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 48 ft | 245 ftLong Meadow Creek | 1,140 ft | $36 | |
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 010 | yurt | 20 ft | yes | 76 ft | 322 ftLong Meadow Creek | 1,062 ft | $116 |
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 011 | standard nonelectric | 14 ft | 74 ft | 255 ftLong Meadow Creek | 1,135 ft | $36 | |
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 012 | yurt | 20 ft | yes | 76 ft | 368 ftLong Meadow Creek | 1,022 ft | $116 |
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 013 | type not stated | 20 ft | yes | 350 ftLong Meadow Creek | 1,055 ft | ||
| AREA REDWOOD MEADOW | 015 | type not stated | 20 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Long Meadow GroupGiant Sequoia National Monument · 0.7 mi
Holey MeadowGiant Sequoia National Monument · 2.1 mi
Brush Creek Dispersed CampingSequoia National Forest · 6.5 mi
Limestone CampgroundSequoia National Forest · 6.6 mi
Fairview CampgroundSequoia National Forest · 6.7 miLeavis Flat CampgroundGiant Sequoia National Monument · 8.2 miFrom Highway 99 turn east on J22. Travel on J22 through California Hot Springs to the "T" intersection and turn left on M50. Travel on M50, 10 miles. Turn left at M107 and travel approximately 4 more miles to the campground entrance on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for California Hot Springs, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 17°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 · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Redwood Meadow is in California’s 20th congressional district. Its representative, Vince Fong (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyVince FongU.S. Representative · California’s 20th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAdam B. SchiffU.S. Senator · California
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAlex PadillaU.S. Senator · California
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Redwood Meadow, Giant Sequoia National Monument, California
Dear Vince Fong, I’m a constituent in California’s 20th district. I tried to camp at Redwood Meadow, Giant Sequoia National Monument, California, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 12 of the 14 campsites the agency files at Redwood Meadow, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 10 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Redwood Meadow keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Redwood Meadow. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Redwood Meadow (Giant Sequoia National Monument, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Redwood Meadow, Giant Sequoia National Monument, California
Dear Adam B. Schiff, I’m a constituent in California. I tried to camp at Redwood Meadow, Giant Sequoia National Monument, California, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 12 of the 14 campsites the agency files at Redwood Meadow, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 10 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Redwood Meadow keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Redwood Meadow. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Redwood Meadow (Giant Sequoia National Monument, California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Redwood Meadow, Giant Sequoia National Monument, California
Dear Alex Padilla, I’m a constituent in California. I tried to camp at Redwood Meadow, Giant Sequoia National Monument, California, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 12 of the 14 campsites the agency files at Redwood Meadow, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 10 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Redwood Meadow keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Redwood Meadow. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Redwood Meadow (Giant Sequoia National Monument, California) via campanac.com