National Park Service · Point Reyes National Seashore · CA

Sky Campground

3Heads up3 fires, nearest 24 mi
Wildfire
Moore fire · 24 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Miley fire · 25 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
Wildfire
Gates fire · 36 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 16, 2026
ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks April 16. Season not published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
OpenThe agency lists it open
Sites
12All of them booked ahead
Season
Year-roundOpen year-round
1,040 ftElevation
1,308 ftWater · an unnamed streamTidal flat · 2.2 mi
0.8 miSE of Inverness, CA
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 1016th darkest of 1,201 in CA
Open year-roundToday

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Sky Campground is located on the western side of Mount Wittenberg at an elevation of 1025 feet. In clear weather, it has a sweeping view of Point Reyes, Drakes Bay, and the Pacific Ocean. One may access Sky Campground by foot, bicycle, or horse; not by boat, auto, or RV. The easiest and shortest approach is a 1.4-mile moderate uphill hike or bicycle ride from the Sky Trailhead (elevation 680 feet) via Sky Trail. There are 11 regular sites and one group site.

Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets - year round
Drinking water
Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records

Around the campground

On the water
Coast

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itNational Park ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 11

What you actually pay

The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Permit for a Regular site$30
Group Permit for a Group Site$90
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon82°Sunny
Tonight59°Clear
Saturday80°Sunny1% rain
Saturday Night55°Mostly Clear1% rain

NWS forecast for Inverness, CA

Typical weather

Typical October night 51°F, day 75°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 42°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

90°30°

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.

Measured at: SAN RAFAEL CIVIC CTR, CA (USC00047880), 16 miles away and 920 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Jared Huffman, official portrait

Sky Campground is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from