Stony Creek Sequoia
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 8 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $36–$71Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4844 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Stony Creek Campground sits at an elevation of approximatly 6,500 feet in the Sierra Nevada mountains. It's nestled among Sigar Pines, Jeffrey Pines, Red Firs and the scenic Stony Creek is just steps away. This campground is ideally located along the Generals Highway, in between Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, near the Jennie Lakes Wilderness, and tucked within the heart of Hume Lake Ranger Districts Sequoia National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
Hume Lake is a popular recreation destination where visitors can enjoy trout fishing, non-motorized boating, hiking, mountain biking and off-road vehicle riding. Visitors can hike the Jennie Lake Trail. The trailhead to the 4-mile trail is across the street in the Upper Stony Creek campground. Several creeks also run near the campground, offering additional fishing and wading opportunities.
Facilities
Stony Creek offers nearly 50 reservable campsites, spread out along the creek. Vault toilets, drinking water and an amphitheater are available at the campground. This facility is operated by Rocky Mountain Recreation Company, a division of ExplorUS and comments are welcome; comment forms are available from campground hosts or online.
Natural Features
The Sequoia National Forest, located at the southern end of the Sierra Nevada in central California, takes its name from the giant sequoia, the world's largest tree, which grows in more than 30 groves on the Forest's lower slopes. The Forest comprises about 1.1 million acres, and elevations range from about 1,000 to 12,000 feet, creating precipitous canyons and mountain streams with spectacular waterfalls such as Salmon Creek Falls and Grizzly Falls. Built to support a large commercial logging operation, Hume Lake supplied water to the longest lumber flume transporting logs to the Central Valley. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
Nearby Attractions
Day trips to Kings Canyon National Park, Sequoia National Park, Giant Sequoia National Monument, Boyden Caverns and General Grant Grove are popular among visitors. Bearskin Grove offers the rare opportunity to photograph an entire mature sequoia in one frame. Hiking through the grove visitors will find a mix of young and old sequoias, many measuring more than 6 feet in diameter.
What the agency tells you
Caution: Black bears frequent the area; special food storage regulations are in effect and must be followed
No off-road vehicle use in the campground
Click here to learn more about Sequoia National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Camping fee does not include Park Entrance Fee
Don't Move Firewood: Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
Overnight camping fee includes 1 car or RV/Trailer with tow vehicle. There is an additional fee $8.00 for each vehicle per night of stay. If you have an extra vehicle, it must fit on the site parking spur.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 48 · 17 tent-only, 1 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- 32 of 48
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campsites, spread out along the creek. Vault toilets, drinking water and an amphitheater are available…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…out along the creek. Vault toilets, drinking water and an amphitheater are available at the…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, Creek
- Backpacking
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Stargazing
- Wilderness access
- Night sky · 685th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 44 of the 48 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $36–$71 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
48 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 44 mapped sitesAll 48 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 48 of the 48 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 44 of the 48 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 001 | type not stated | 399 ft | 106 ft | |||
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 002 | type not stated | 300 ft | 82 ft | |||
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 003 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 103 ft | 213 ft | 150 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 004 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 91 ft | 305 ft | 48 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 91 ft | 249 ft | 126 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 88 ft | 147 ft | 218 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 007 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 92 ft | 193 ft | 218 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 75 ft | 100 ft | 288 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 75 ft | 126 ft | 313 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 94 ft | 15 ft | 491 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 011 | type not stated | 20 ft | 50 ft | 462 ft | ||
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 012 | walk to | 10 ft | 94 ft | under 10 ft | 571 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 013 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 97 ft | 97 ft | 590 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 68 ft | 129 ft | 663 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 83 ft | 89 ft | 741 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 95 ft | 136 ft | 762 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 017 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 98 ft | 89 ft | 896 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 018 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 98 ft | under 10 ft | 983 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 019 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 106 ft | 42 ft | 1,077 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 020 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 106 ft | 53 ft | 1,165 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 115 ft | 35 ft | 1,216 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 124 ft | 10 ft | 1,131 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 103 ft | 62 ft | 1,016 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 025 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 77 ft | 41 ft | 923 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 77 ft | 30 ft | 923 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 93 ft | 22 ft | 837 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 028 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 119 ft | 60 ft | 723 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 029 | type not stated | 10 ft | 29 ft | 704 ft | ||
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 72 ft | 640 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 031 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 54 ft | 99 ft | 586 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 032 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 67 ft | 61 ft | 557 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 033 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 67 ft | 98 ft | 494 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 82 ft | 65 ft | 464 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 035 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 62 ft | 179 ft | 346 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 62 ft | 133 ft | 342 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 037 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 182 ft | 269 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 038 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 66 ft | 212 ft | 194 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 039 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 66 ft | 261 ft | 209 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 040 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 77 ft | 279 ft | 132 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 041 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 96 ft | 166 ft | 157 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 042 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 132 ft | 120 ft | 161 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 043 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 89 ft | 108 ft | 193 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 044 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 114 ft | 227 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 045 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 92 ft | 195 ft | 129 ft | $36–$71 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 046 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 289 ft | 112 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 047 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 279 ft | 170 ft | $36 |
| AREA STONEY CREEK / SEQUOIA | 048 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 115 ft | 403 ft | 148 ft | $36 |
| 049 | standard nonelectric | 131 ft | 496 ft | 199 ft | $36 |
25 of 48 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Upper Stony Creek CampgroundGiant Sequoia National Monument · 0.0 mi
Cove GroupGiant Sequoia National Monument · 0.3 mi
Fir GroupGiant Sequoia National Monument · 0.6 mi
Dorst Creek Campground-Sequoia and Kings Canyon National ParkSequoia National Park · 2.4 mi
Big Meadow Campground - US Forest Service Sequoia National Forest (CA)Giant Sequoia National Monument · 3.7 mi
Big Meadows Cabin (CA)Giant Sequoia National Monument · 3.7 miFrom Fresno, California, go east on Highway 180 to the Kings Canyon National Park entrance. Take a right at the Generals Highway, traveling approximately 10 miles south to Stony Creek Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hartland, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 17°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
Stony Creek Sequoia 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 →