Soda Springs Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 18 mi
- Right now
- ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Campsites are located along Chiquito Creek. This is a large sandy flat with good shade. Boat parking is not available in the individual campsites. However, boats may be kept at the launch area or at Wagner's campground (private campground nearby). Each site has table, grill and fire rings.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 38 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book until it reopens
Forest Order removes Fish Camp, Soda Springs, and Little Jackass from closure list.
The closure above is the reading. We hold no availability snapshot for this campground, so there’s no thirty-night strip to draw under it.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
“$23.62 ($26.22) per night, single site $47.24 ($52.44)* per night, double site $7.00 per night, per additional vehicle *(taxes included)” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
How we know this receipt · 4
What the agency said · 1
Forest Order removes Fish Camp, Soda Springs, and Little Jackass from closure list. The Sierra National Forest has issued Forest Order No. 05‑15‑00‑26‑11 removes Fish Camp, Soda Springs, and Little Jackass from closure list; temporarily closes certain recreation sites, roads, and trails identified in Exhibits A and B as a public safety precaution due to widespread hazard trees, erosion, and ongoing repair efforts.
U.S. Forest Service · posted Oct 8, 2026
Filed as emergency from the agency’s own words “public safety”. That reading is ours.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Little Jackass CampgroundSierra National Forest · 3.2 mi · walk-up
- West Kaiser CampgroundSierra National Forest · 8.7 mi · walk-up
- Cedar BluffSierra National Forest · 10 mi · 22 sites
- Recreation PointSierra National Forest · 11 mi · 4 sites
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
SweetwaterSierra National Forest · 2.3 miLittle Jackass CampgroundSierra National Forest · 3.2 mi
Mammoth PoolSierra National Forest · 4.0 miGaggs Camp CampgroundSierra National Forest · 4.6 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bass Lake, CA
Typical weather
Typical May night 37°F, day 63°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Soda Springs Campground is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →