U.S. Forest Service · Sierra National Forest · CA
Rock Creek Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 19 mi
Wildfire
Wildfire Training fire · 19 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 15, 2026
Wildfire
Dome fire · 24 mi away · 6,788 acres · 95% contained · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Land fire · 48 mi away · 20 acres · updated Oct 11, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 15, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
4,390 ftElevation
311 ftWater · Rock Creek
6.1 miNE of North Fork, CA
0%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 703rd darkest of 1,201 in CA
Open May 1 through September 30Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Sitting on a large, sandy flat under a grove of oak, pine and cedar trees, Rock Creek Campground is divided into three sections, with Rock Creek running through the middle. One section of the camp sits nearest the access road; the other two sections can be reached via a bridge over Rock Creek. On this side, the largest section is located in closest to the swimming holes and rock water slide in the area. Each campsite has a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Parking spurs are paved and dirt-surfaced. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Swimming holes can be found along Rock Creek. Keep reading
Rock Creek Campground is located close to Mammoth Pool Reservoir near the Ansel Adams Wilderness and provides more recreational activities, including fishing, boating and hiking. This area is known for its jagged peaks, including 13,157-foot Mt. Ritter, and numerous lakes and streams. FOR RESERVATIONS CLICK HERE
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…spurs are paved and dirt-surfaced. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Swimming holes can…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and dirt-surfaced. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Swimming holes can be found along…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note
“$23.62 ($26.22)* per night, single site $47.24 ($52.44)* per night, double site $7.00 per night, per additional vehicle *(taxes included)” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 5
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. · Aug 24, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · 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: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Rock Creek (Sierra National Forest, CA)Sierra National Forest · 0.1 miFish Creek (CA)Sierra National Forest · 2.1 mi
Mammoth PoolSierra National Forest · 3.9 miWhisky Falls CampgroundSierra National Forest · 4.4 mi
SweetwaterSierra National Forest · 5.1 miPlacer CampgroundSierra National Forest · 5.4 mi
Rock Creek (Sierra National Forest, CA)Sierra National Forest · 0.1 miFish Creek (CA)Sierra National Forest · 2.1 miMammoth PoolSierra National Forest · 3.9 miWhisky Falls CampgroundSierra National Forest · 4.4 miSweetwaterSierra National Forest · 5.1 miPlacer CampgroundSierra National Forest · 5.4 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today76°Sunny
Tonight56°Clear
Saturday72°Sunny
Saturday Night54°Clear
NWS forecast for North Fork, CA
Source: National Weather Service, HNX forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical May night 37°F, day 63°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
90°32°20°
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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.
Measured at: SO ENTRANCE YOSEMITE NP, CA (USC00048380), 21 miles away and 657 ft higher
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
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
Rock Creek Campground is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it out of season. The season it publishes is the bar below.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
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.