Sarah Totten Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 33 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sarah Totten Campground is located within the Klamath Wild and Scenic River corridor, about 33 miles east of the town of Happy Camp. The campground has nine family sites and two group sites. The group sites are reservable during the peak-use season, mid-May to mid-October. The family sites are first-come first-served. The campground's upper loop with four family sites and one group site is open year-round. A boat-launching area with a sandy surface provides river access for anglers with drift boats and whitewater boaters. Keep reading
Recreation
The class II-III Klamath River can be accessed from the campground, and lends itself to fishing, tubing, whitewater rafting and kayaking. Hiking trails are available in the vicinity.
Facilities
The campground offers two group sites and nine single-family sites. The group sites can accommodate a maximum of 30 people each. They feature an area for dispersed tent camping and several picnic tables and campfire rings with grills. Other amenities include accessible vault toilets, drinking water spigots, trash collection and a parking area for vehicles and trailers.
Natural Features
The campground sits in a shaded area next to the Klamath River at an elevation of 1,400 feet. The Klamath National Forest encompasses 1.7 million acres of land straddling the California-Oregon border. The Klamath contains a vast array of mountains, streams and lakes. With elevations ranging from 450 to 8,900 feet, the forest is home to diverse plant life and nearly 400 animal species.
Nearby Attractions
The campground is close to the historic town of Hamburg, once a stomping ground for wealthy fly fisherman and sportsmen, including author Zane Grey. Crumpled structures and rock foundations are all that remain of Hamburg's erstwhile structures, including Johnston's Store and Hotel, Bailey Post Office and Bucket of Blood Saloon.
What the agency tells you
Please call the Happy Camp Ranger District at 530-493-2243 for information about local conditions and recreational activities. Click here for more information on the Klamath National Forest
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; all food must be properly stored in approved containers.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 24 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Other amenities include accessible vault toilets, drinking water spigots, trash collection and a…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include accessible vault toilets, drinking water spigots, trash collection and a parking area for…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Whitewater rafting
- Night sky · 166th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:38 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 rate for this season, $10 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:38 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 11 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA SARAH TOTTEN CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 101 ft | 242 ft | $10 |
| AREA SARAH TOTTEN CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 101 ft | 143 ft | $10 |
| AREA SARAH TOTTEN CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 101 ft | 174 ft | $10 |
| AREA SARAH TOTTEN CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 28 ft | 205 ft | $10 |
| AREA SARAH TOTTEN CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 28 ft | 193 ft | $10 |
| AREA SARAH TOTTEN CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 76 ft | 395 ft | $10 |
| AREA SARAH TOTTEN CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 76 ft | 330 ft | $10 |
| AREA SARAH TOTTEN CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 89 ft | 233 ft | $10 |
| AREA SARAH TOTTEN CAMPGROUND | 011 | group standard area nonelectric | 24 ft | 89 ft | 239 ft | $50 |
| AREA SARAH TOTTEN CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 117 ft | 356 ft | $10 |
| AREA SARAH TOTTEN CAMPGROUND | 112 | group standard area nonelectric | 24 ft | 188 ft | 211 ft | $50 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Grider Creek CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 8.6 mi
Indian Scotty CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 11 mi
Fort Goff CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 12 miLovers Camp CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 15 mi
Beaver Creek CampgroundKlamath National Forest · 15 miFrom I-5, take exit 786 to Highway 96 (Klamath River Highway). Follow Highway 96 west for about 35 miles. The campground entrance is on the right, about 1 mile east of Hamburg, CA.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Happy Camp, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 68°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 29°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
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
Sarah Totten Campground 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.