Rogers Cow Camp
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 47 mi
- Right now
- ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Recently redeveloped, this campground is located off 23N15 road, northwest of the Oro-Quincy Highway (Highway 162). The campground features 6 sites, a hand pump drinking water well, vault toilet, picnic tables, and fire rings. Popular motorcycle staging area. Single Track trails.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…sites, a hand pump drinking water well, vault toilet, picnic tables, and fire rings. Popular motorcycle…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…162). The campground features 6 sites, a hand pump drinking water well, vault toilet, picnic tables,…”
Nothing to book until it reopens
Rogers Cow Camp Area Closure.
The closure above is the reading. We hold no availability snapshot for this campground, so there’s no thirty-night strip to draw under it.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 3
What the agency said · 1
Rogers Cow Camp Area Closure. An area around Rogers Cow Camp is under a Forest Closure Order starting Thursday, September 17 due to public health and safety issues associated with an ongoing investigation.
U.S. Forest Service · posted Sep 17, 2026
Filed as emergency from the agency’s own words “public health and safety”. That reading is ours.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Potato Patch CampgroundLassen National Forest · 31 mi · walk-up
- Legacy CampgroundLassen National Forest · 32 mi · walk-up
- Salmon CreekTahoe National Forest · 39 mi · 32 sites
- Warner Creek CampgroundLassen National Forest · 41 mi · walk-up
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Grizzly Creek Campground (CA)Plumas National Forest · 8.8 mi
HutchinsPlumas National Forest · 9.9 miLower Bucks CampgroundPlumas National Forest · 11 miBucks Lake Recreation AreaPlumas National Forest · 11 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Berry Creek, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 30°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Rogers Cow Camp is in California’s 1st congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Doug LaMalfa for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.