Spring Camp Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 6 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The Spring Camp Campground is TEMPORARILY CLOSED due to the Bobcat Fire. When open... General Camping Info : Find helpful guidance and tips for an enjoyable trip to the forest! Know Fire & Other Restrictions Before You Go! : These conditions can affect your entire trip. For example, Extreme and Critical fire use restrictions mean no campfires and no portable cooking systems/stoves. Bring cold food and no S'mores. Be Bear Aware! : Bear safety is critical, for the safety of your group and/or you, as well as our bears. Help keep bears wild by following these tips. Keep reading
Elevation: 4,700 feet Amenities: 3 OHV/hike-in campsites with picnic tables, vault toilets, no fire appliances, no trash receptacles, no piped water available. Seasonal stream water (treat/boil before using). However, water flow may be low or non-existent due to reduced rainfall. Please bring enough water for cooking, cleaning, drinking, and extinguishing campfires. Pack it in - Pack it out! OHV: Located along Rincon-Shortcut OHV Route. Permit needed for use of this route. Equestrian: Hitching Rails Fees: Camping - Adventure Pass/America the Beautiful Pass required.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campsites with picnic tables, vault toilets, no fire appliances, no trash receptacles, no piped…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “Amenities: 3 OHV/hike-in campsites with picnic tables, vault toilets, no fire appliances, no trash receptacles, no piped water available.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
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the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Monrovia, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 43°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 29°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Spring Camp Campground is in California’s 28th congressional district. Its representative, Judy Chu (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →