Robinson Creek South
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $32From, per site
- Sites
- 25All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Robinson Creek South 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 at the campground's amphitheater on weekends from July 4 through Labor Day. Robinson Creek North Campground is adjacent.
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 hiking and horseback riding trails.
What the agency tells you
Caution: black bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in approved containers
Click here for more info about the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forests
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Reserved Sites will be held until checkout time (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.
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.
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 natural resources and minimize noise levels. Double sites have a 12-person max. Triple sites have an 18-person max.
Once your reservation start date has begun neither Recreation.gov contact center, Camp Host, or Campground Manager can modify your reservation. If you no longer want the site you have reserved you will need to cancel your original reservation and pay for the site you prefer at the campground. There are no exchanging sites.
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 the Camp Host.
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 completely with water and be cool to the touch before leaving campsite or going to bed.
Vehicles: One RV with tow per single site or one vehicle per tent site is included with reservation/camping fee. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle fee is per night per vehicle and is paid at the campground upon arrival. Extra vehicles must fit on the parking spur.
Falling object- 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 or trees to a Ranger.
Water disposal- do not dump grey water on the ground or at the water spigots.
All pets must be kept on a leash under their owners' control at all times 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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 25 · 1 tent-only, 7 walk-in
- 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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $32 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 25 mapped sitesAll 26 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 25 of the 26 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. 25 of the 26 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 | $32 | ||||
| ROBI | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 62 ft | 78 ft | 117 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 002 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 52 ft | 56 ft | 97 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 003 | rv nonelectric | 25 ft | 51 ft | 46 ft | 127 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 51 ft | 52 ft | 166 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 53 ft | 126 ft | 198 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 103 ft | 82 ft | 263 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 007 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 103 ft | 50 ft | 295 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 82 ft | 49 ft | 273 ft | $32 | |
| ROBI | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 53 ft | 150 ft | 177 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 010 | walk to | 81 ft | 94 ft | 349 ft | $32 | |
| ROBI | 011 | walk to | 63 ft | 112 ft | 424 ft | $32 | |
| ROBI | 012 | walk to | 63 ft | 91 ft | 408 ft | $32 | |
| ROBI | 013 | walk to | 54 ft | 133 ft | 294 ft | $32 | |
| ROBI | 014 | walk to | 56 ft | 163 ft | 308 ft | $32 | |
| ROBI | 015 | walk to | 54 ft | 186 ft | 249 ft | $32 | |
| ROBI | 016 | walk to | 121 ft | 136 ft | 215 ft | $32 | |
| ROBI | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 236 ft | 128 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 018 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 91 ft | 149 ft | 40 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 78 ft | 244 ft | 94 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 020 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 61 ft | 169 ft | 184 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 021 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 61 ft | 119 ft | 243 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 022 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 97 ft | 78 ft | 330 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 023 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 74 ft | 123 ft | 369 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 024 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 74 ft | 197 ft | 362 ft | $32 |
| ROBI | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 110 ft | 273 ft | 273 ft | $32 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Robinson Creek NorthToiyabe 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. 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 South 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 →