Shasta Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:45 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 27All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Camp in one of 27 tent/trailer campsites near the Chappie-Shasta Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) area. The Chappie-Shasta OHV area offers over 200 miles of roads and trails on approximately 52,000 acres for off-road enthusiasts. Elevation within this area ranges from 600 to 5000 feet with a wide variety of topography, soil, and vegetation types. The southeastern portions offer rocky and challenging terrain, while the more remote northwestern portions offer scenic views of Mt. Shasta, Lake Shasta, and the Trinity Alps. Keep reading
Recreation
The nearby Chappie-Shasta OHV area offers over 200 miles of roads and trails on approximately 52,000 acres for off-road enthusiasts. The campground also connects to the Sacramento River Rail Trail which is a historic and scenic non-motorized paved path running 11 miles north-south along the western shore of the Keswick Reservoir from just below Shasta Dam to Keswick Dam Road.
Facilities
Camp in one of 27 tent/trailer campsites near the Chappie-Shasta Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) area. Each site offers fire rings and a picnic table. Vault toilets and a staging area are available near the campground.
Natural Features
The Chappie-Shasta OHV area offers over 200 miles of roads and trails on approximately 52,000 acres for off-road enthusiasts. Elevation within this area ranges from 600 to 5000 feet with a wide variety of topography, soil, and vegetation types. The southeastern portions offer rocky and challenging terrain, while the more remote northwestern portions offer scenic views of Mt. Shasta, Lake Shasta, and the Trinity Alps.
Nearby Attractions
The Chappie-Shasta OHV area offers over 200 miles of roads and trails on approximately 52,000 acres for off-road enthusiasts. The Sacramento River Rail Trail is a historic and scenic non-motorized paved path running 11 miles north-south along the western shore of the Keswick Reservoir from just below Shasta Dam to Keswick Dam Road.
What the agency tells you
Please check in with the campground host when you arrive.
Dogs must be kept on leash in the campground.
Campfires are allowed in the established fire rings, when in conformance with BLM Fire Restrictions (click on the Redding Field Office tab). Please get a free CALFire Campfire Permit before arriving by visiting Ready for Wildfire webpage .
Everything else this campground posts · 3
If you are making a same day reservation - please bring a copy (screen shot is ok!) of your reservation confirmation to show the camp host.
This campground is located in an active Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) recreation area. Expect to hear motorized vehicles in and around the campground.
Quiet hours are from 10:00 PM through 6:00 AM. Please be mindful of others camping around you.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- 25 of 27
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 27 campsite records
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
32 of 32 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:45 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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 15:45 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
27 sites
All 27 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. 27 of the 27 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Shasta | Site 1 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 10 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 11 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 12 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 13 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 14 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 15 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 16 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 17 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 18 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 19 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 2 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 20 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 21 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 22 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 23 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 24 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 25 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 26 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 27 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 3 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 4 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 5 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 6 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 7 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 8 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Shasta | Site 9 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
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