Stumpy Meadows
1Heads up1 fire 25 mi away
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $36–$72Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 38All of them booked ahead
- Season
- June 1 – September 30Open June 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Stumpy Meadows, on the Stumpy Meadows Reservoir, provides an enjoyable setting in a heavy conifer forest with easy access to an array of water activities. Campers come here to while away warm summer days on the lake and enjoy the sights and sounds of the great outdoors. The campground provides easy access to both hiking and biking trails. The historic town of Georgetown is 15 miles away. In the 19th century, the town was a hub of the productive gold mining region, and residents proclaimed the town the "pride of the mountains." Recreation The crystal clear reservoir is stocked with both Rainbow and German Brown Trout, providing excellent fishing during the season. The lake is a grand place for a swim. Kayaking and canoeing are much enjoyed activities on the lake's clear waters. Slow-paced motor boating is allowed, but is restricted to a 5 m.p.h. speed limit. Keep reading
Facilities
Campsites are well spaced and offer ample privacy from neighboring sites. The reservoir is within a short walk, but no campsites have views of the water. Vault toilets and drinking water from spigots are provided. A boat ramp is located a mile from the campground.
Natural Features
All sites are shaded by groves of towering Ponderosa pine, fir, oak, and cedar trees. The campground is in Eldorado National forest, which boasts over 400 miles of hiking trails, an abundance of lakes and rivers for fishing and swimming, and incredible scenery. Here, the climate is similar to that of the Mediterranean with warm, dry summers and cold, wet winters.
Nearby Attractions
Take a drive on the El Dorado County Scenic Highway or visit the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park.
Charges & Cancellations
Recreation Fee: Recreation fees are the fees a visitor pays for things like overnight camping, a day-use pavilion, group facilities, a tour or a permit. Recreation fees vary by location and/or activity. Reservation Fee: A fee may be charged at the time a reservation is made to cover the cost of reservation services. This fee is in addition to the Recreation Fee and is non-refundable. Fees for camping, day use, group sites, cabins and lookouts: $8 if made on-line; $9 if made through the call center; $3 if made in-person. Change Fee: A service fee may be charged at the time a modification is made depending on the changes. Cancellation Fee: A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refunds for a cancelled reservation. Cut-Off Window: The latest date and/or time that you can make an advanced reservation or a change to an existing reservation. Cut-off windows can vary by location, but are typically 4 days before your arrival date. A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (see Late Cancellation below). Late Cancellation: If you cancel your reservation too close to the start date, additional service fees may be withheld.
What the agency tells you
Forest Order No. 19-15-01: Prohibits camping for a combined total of no more than 14 days during a calendar year (January-December), forest-wide. Visitors may book campsites annually but the maximum stay may not exceed a total of 14 days each calendar year (January-December)
Please Note: One vehicle per single site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. Call (530) 644-6048 for local information and conditions.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (1PM) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
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.
First Come First Serve sites remain listed as FF for the entire season. They will not show occupied/available as the status of these sites is ever changing. You must be on site at the campground to claim a FF site. No guarantees upon arrival that these FF sites will be avaiable.
Several of the curves in this campground are very hard to maneuver with a trailer because they are lined with large pines; If you are an inexperienced driver, sites 3 - 16 are the easiest to access (5th wheels maneuver the road more easily than other trailers)
There is a fee to move from a reserved site to a first come first serve site. Site Transfer Policy
Click here for more information on the Eldorado National Forest.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 38 · 10 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 26 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 5
- Pets
- Allowed at 37 of 38 sites
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 39 of 39 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 39 of 39 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 39 of 39 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Meadow
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 874th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 29 km away
- Minimal 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.
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $36–$72 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.
“Fees for camping, day use, group sites, cabins and lookouts: $8 if made on-line $9 if made through the call center” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
39 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sitesAll 39 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 38 of the 39 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| STUM | 001 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 175 ft | 1,149 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 002- Host Site | host pad | 26 ft | 1,021 ft | |||
| STUM | 003 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 953 ft | $36–$72 | ||
| STUM | 004 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 957 ft | $36–$72 | ||
| STUM | 005 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 881 ft | $36–$72 | ||
| STUM | 006 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 848 ft | $36–$72 | ||
| STUM | 007 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 81 ft | 928 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 008 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 98 ft | 843 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 009 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 112 ft | 899 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 105 ft | 810 ft | $36 | ||
| STUM | 011 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | yes | 79 ft | 727 ft | $36–$72 |
| STUM | 012 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | yes | 79 ft | 677 ft | $36–$72 |
| STUM | 013 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | yes | 92 ft | 639 ft | $36–$72 |
| STUM | 014 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | yes | 92 ft | 574 ft | $36–$72 |
| STUM | 015 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 66 ft | 557 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 016 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | yes | 71 ft | 493 ft | $36–$72 |
| STUM | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 66 ft | 539 ft | $36 | ||
| STUM | 018 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | 78 ft | 426 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 019 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 75 ft | 399 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 020 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 85 ft | 316 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 75 ft | 393 ft | $36 | ||
| STUM | 022 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 75 ft | 338 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 023 | tent only nonelectric | 82 ft | 377 ft | $36 | ||
| STUM | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 101 ft | 442 ft | $36 | ||
| STUM | 025 | tent only nonelectric | 58 ft | 546 ft | $36 | ||
| STUM | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 58 ft | 591 ft | $36 | ||
| STUM | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 68 ft | 555 ft | $36 | ||
| STUM | 028 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 80 ft | 707 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 029 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 80 ft | 746 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 031 | tent only nonelectric | 172 ft | 648 ft | $36 | ||
| STUM | 032 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 90 ft | 710 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 033 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 74 ft | 797 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 034 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 74 ft | 847 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 035 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 59 ft | 877 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 036 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 88 ft | 903 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 037 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 919 ft | $36 | ||
| STUM | 038 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 84 ft | 1,003 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 039 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 114 ft | 1,038 ft | $36–$72 | |
| STUM | 040 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 111 ft | 959 ft | $36–$72 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 39 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Black OakEldorado National Forest · 0.2 miPonderosa Cove Group CampgroundEldorado National Forest · 0.6 mi
Ponderosa Cove Campground2.2 mi
West Point CampgroundEldorado National Forest · 8.4 miCamino Cove CampgroundEldorado National Forest · 9.0 mi
Dru Barner CampgroundEldorado National Forest · 9.7 miFrom Placerville take Hwy 49 N for 1/2 mile, turn right on Hwy 193 to Georgetown. Take a right on main street in Georgetown and proceed 15 miles to the campground.
From Auburn, Take Hwy 49 S to Cool, turn left on Hwy 193 to Georgetown, turn left on main street in Georgetown and proceed 15 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Pollock Pines, CA
Typical weather
Typical June night 47°F, day 82°F.
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
Stumpy Meadows 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 →