Scorpion Canyon Campground
6Heads up2 park alerts · 4 fires, nearest 34 mi
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 31All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Primitive camping is available (25 individual sites at $15 per night-per site and 6 group sites at $40 per night-per site; reservations required). Picnic table, food storage box, potable water, and pit toilet are provided. Distance from landing to campground is one-half mile.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 10
What you actually pay
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 · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Santa Cruz Island ScorpionChannel Islands National Park · 0.0 mi
Santa Cruz Island Del Norte BackcountryChannel Islands National Park · 6.2 miPrisoners Harbor CampgroundChannel Islands National Park · 7.2 mi
Santa Cruz Island Prisoners HarborChannel Islands National Park · 7.3 mi
Anacapa IslandChannel Islands National Park · 11 mi
Water Canyon CampgroundChannel Islands National Park · 28 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Oxnard, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 74°F.
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Scorpion Canyon Campground is in California’s 24th congressional district. Its representative, Salud Carbajal (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →