Robinson Creek North
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $32–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 29All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Robinson Creek North Campground is located just 9 miles from Bridgeport, California, next to Robinson Creek at an elevation of 7,000 feet. The Twin Lakes area is close by, offering boating, fishing, hiking and horseback riding opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Robinson Creek offers good rainbow trout fishing and can be easily accessed from within the campground. Numerous hiking trails are in the vicinity, including the popular Robinson Creek Trail.
Facilities
The campground contains single sites with picnic tables, food storage lockers and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. Educational programs are held next door at Robinson Creek South Campground's amphitheater on weekends from July 4 through Labor Day.
Natural Features
The campground is situated alongside its namesake creek, where a forest of massive Jeffrey pines towers over the site, offering partial shade. Lodgepole pines, sagebrush and summer wildflowers dot the landscape.
Nearby Attractions
Upper and Lower Twin Lakes are nearby, offering beautiful mountain scenery, boating, canoeing and fishing for Kokanee salmon and rainbow and brown trout. The rugged and scenic Hoover Wilderness Area can be accessed from the Twin Lakes area and offers additional trails for hiking and horseback riding.
What the agency tells you
Caution: black bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in approved containers
This campground has first-come, first-served sites as well as reservation sites.
Click here for more info about the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forests
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Reserved sites will be held until checkout (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of the second day to hold a reservation, or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Please call the office at 760-932-7092 if you need to inform the campground of an arrival time greater than 24 hours after your arrival date, or if you will not use your reservation whatsoever.
Fire Restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions (or red flag warnings), at which point campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. Please check with Camp Host before starting a campfire.
6-person limit- there is a max of 6 people per Single campsite. If you exceed this number, purchase two sites and spread your group and equipment out evenly between campsites. This is to protect the natural resources and minimize noise levels. Double site has 12-person max. Triple site has 18-person max.
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither Recreation.gov contact center nor the Camp Host or Campground Manager will be able to modify your reservation. If you no longer want the site you have reserved you will need to cancel that reservation and pay for the site you prefer. There is no exchanging sites.
Generators may be used from 6am-10pm. Quiet hours in the campground are 10pm-6am.
Falling objects: Don't linger under dead, cracked, or broken branches. Run if you hear cracks or snapping from tree roots, trunks or branches (know that sometimes there is no sound and very little time to react). Report falling branches and trees to the Ranger.
Fire Rings: Do not build additional fire rings. Glass, aluminum and food are prohibited in fire rings. Logs must fit within the fire ring. Chainsaws are not allowed. Fires must be extinguished with water and be cool to the touch before leaving campsite or going to bed.
Pass Discounts: If you use a pass discount you must provide your pass and photo identification upon check in or upon Camp Host request. If you received a pass discount for which you weren't eligible you must pay the difference in price upon arrival.
Pets must be on a leash and under their owners' control while in the campground. Owners are responsible for any damage the pet causes. Aggressive pets may be asked to leave the campground for campers' safety and enjoyment. Please pick up and dispose of pet waste in dumpsters.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 29
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…lockers and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings with grills. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Firewood is…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 126th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 3.3 km away
- Patchy color
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 rates for this season, $32–$50 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 Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
53 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 8 mapped sitesAll 53 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 8 of the 53 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. 29 of the 53 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 30 ft | $32 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX1 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX10 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX11 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX12 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX13 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX14 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX15 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX16 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX17 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX18 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX19 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX2 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX20 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX21 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX22 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX23 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX3 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX4 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX5 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX6 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX7 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX8 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX9 | unnamed record | $32 | ||||
| ROBI | 026 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 027 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 76 ft | 245 ft | 312 ft | $32–$50 |
| ROBI | 028 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 76 ft | 319 ft | 359 ft | $32–$50 |
| ROBI | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 030 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 101 ft | 300 ft | 370 ft | $32–$50 |
| ROBI | 031 | standard nonelectric | $32–$50 | ||||
| ROBI | 032 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 161 ft | 296 ft | 201 ft | $32–$50 |
| ROBI | 033 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 101 ft | 217 ft | 280 ft | $32–$50 |
| ROBI | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 113 ft | 168 ft | 364 ft | $32–$50 |
| ROBI | 035 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 128 ft | 44 ft | 330 ft | $32–$50 |
| ROBI | 036 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 126 ft | 100 ft | 210 ft | $32–$50 |
| ROBI | 037 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 038 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 039 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 040 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 041 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 042 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 043 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 044 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 045 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 046 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 047 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 048 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 049 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 050 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 051 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 052 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 053 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $32–$50 | |||
| ROBI | 054 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $32–$50 |
The agency files 24 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 53 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Robinson Creek SouthToiyabe National Forest · 0.0 mi
PahaToiyabe National Forest · 0.6 mi
Honeymoon FlatToiyabe National Forest · 1.1 mi
Crags CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 1.1 mi
Lower Twin Lake CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 1.1 mi
Lower Twin Lakes at BridgeportToiyabe National Forest · 1.2 miTake U.S. Highway 395 through Bridgeport. Turn south on Twin Lakes Road at the Shell gas station. Travel 9.3 miles on Twin Lakes Road, then turn left into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Twin Lakes, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 24°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 10°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Robinson Creek North 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 →