Sonora Bridge
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 23All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sonora Bridge campground offers opportunity to get away from crowds amidst shade of Jeffrey Pines. Campground is close to fishing on West Walker River. The river is stocked with trout. Nearby picnic area, near Tule Lake, has accessible facilities. Sonora Bridge Campground is a 23-site campground open late April to mid September. Located on the Wlest Walker River in a Jeffrey pine forest, this location provides peaceful rustic camping for fishermen and hikers on Sonora Pass between Bridgeport and Walker, Ca. Views encompass the high Sierra peaks that surround Sonora Pass. Scenic Leavitt Meadows is 4.5 miles west. Keep reading
Facilities
This tent and RV friendly campground offers primitive single family campsites with picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets and garbage service are provided. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. The campground does not have potable water.
Natural Features
Sonora Bridge campground is at an elevation of 6300 feet.
What the agency tells you
Sonora Bridge Campground is a 23-site campground open late April to mid September. Located on the Wlest Walker River in a Jeffrey pine forest, this location provides peaceful rustic camping for fishermen and hikers on Sonora Pass between Bridgeport and Walker, Ca. Views encompass the high Sierra peaks that surround Sonora Pass. Scenic Leavitt Meadows is 4.5 miles west. Vault toilets and garbage collection are provided. The campground does not have potable water. This is a dog-friendly campground. Sites are first-come, first-served.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 23
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets and garbage service are provided. Firewood is…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…purchase from the host. The campground does not have potable water. Natural Features Sonora Bridge campground is at an…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Meadow
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 28 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
23 sites
All 23 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. 23 of the 23 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Sonora Bridge | 1 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 10 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 11 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 12 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 13 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 14 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 15 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 16 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 17 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 18 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 19 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 2 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 20 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 21 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 22 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 23 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 3 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 4 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 5 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 6 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 7 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 8 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
| Sonora Bridge | 9 | standard nonelectric | $24 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Chris FlatToiyabe National Forest · 2.3 mi
BootlegToiyabe National Forest · 3.8 mi
Leavitt MeadowsToiyabe National Forest · 4.4 mi
ObsidianToiyabe National Forest · 5.0 mi
BuckeyeToiyabe National Forest · 12 mi
Honeymoon FlatToiyabe National Forest · 14 mi1. From Highway 395 south in Bridgeport, drive approximately 17 miles to Highway 108, Sonora Junction.
2. Turn left on Highway 108 and go approximately one mile. The campground is on left hand side of road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Walker, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 24°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 10°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
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
Sonora Bridge is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →