Shady Cove Group Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 20 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This group campground is located near the National Children's Forest Visitor Center and the Keller Peak Fire Lookout. The campground is easily accessible, just off a paved road, Forest Service Road 1N96. It has forested tent campsites. It is situated in the mountains of Southern California at an elevation of about 6,000 feet. The campground offers three group sites, one of which is accessible, for tent. Each site can accommodate up to 30 people and eight vehicles. There is drinking water at each group site. Amenities include picnic tables, vault restrooms, grills, trash containers, group fire-ring, and tent pads. Activities include biking, bird watching and photography. Within 10 miles rock climbing, hiking, interpretive programs, nature trails, sightseeing and recycling and visitor centers. Group Site A is accessible.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…site. Amenities include picnic tables, vault restrooms, grills, trash containers, group fire-ring, and…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…30 people and eight vehicles. There is drinking water at each group site. Amenities include picnic…”
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.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Lobo GroupSan Bernardino National Forest · 2.0 mi
Skyline Group CampgroundSan Bernardino National Forest · 2.0 mi
Oso GroupSan Bernardino National Forest · 2.1 mi
San GorgonioSan Bernardino National Forest · 2.4 mi
Heart Bar CampgroundSan Bernardino National Forest · 2.5 miThe agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Big Bear City, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 24°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
Shady Cove Group Campground is in California’s 23rd congressional district. Its representative, Jay Obernolte (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →