South Fork Campground
4Heads up3 park alerts · 1 fire 25 mi away
- Right now
- ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
- A night
- $6When it reopens, per site
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
SOUTH FORK CAMPGROUND IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. South Fork Campground and its access road were heavily and extensively damaged by floods and landslides from winter storms. The dirt road is currently impassible. Old Description: This small, primitive campground was in a remote area of the foothills on the South Fork of the Kaweah River, away from main park highways and features. There is no potable water. Trailers and RVs are not permitted.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
Nothing to book until it reopens
SOUTH FORK CAMPGROUND IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
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 · 4
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
What the agency said · 1
SOUTH FORK CAMPGROUND IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. South Fork Campground and its access road were heavily and extensively damaged by floods and landslides from winter storms.
National Park Service · the source publishes no posting date
Filed as emergency from the agency’s own words “landslides”. That reading is ours.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Grouse Valley CabinsGiant Sequoia National Monument · 4.2 miAuxiliary DamSequoia National Park · 5.5 miChamise Flat Dispersed CampgroundSequoia National Park · 5.5 miOld Goldledge CampgroundSequoia National Park · 5.5 miSouth Fork RecSequoia National Park · 5.5 mi
Atwell Mill CampgroundSequoia National Park · 9.6 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Three Rivers, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 73°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 27°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
South Fork Campground is in California’s 20th congressional district. Its representative, Vince Fong (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →