Summerdale Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 5 mi
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $47From, per site
- Sites
- 6232 on recreation.gov
- Season
- June 1 – September 30Open June 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Summerdale Campground is located just 1.5 miles from Yosemite National Park, and sits in a scenic wildflower-filled meadow, surrounded by fir, cottonwood and cedar trees. The campground's proximity to Yosemite, the excellent fishing at Big Creek and the cooler summer temperatures make it a very popular destination. Keep reading
Recreation
Anglers can fish for rainbow trout in Big Creek. A few miles from the campground are opportunities to ride off-road vehicles in the Miami Motorcycle Trails Area or hike the 3.7-mile Lewis Creek National Recreation Trail.
Facilities
Each campsite has a paved parking spur, picnic table, grill and campfire ring. Vault toilets are available, and water is provided. Camping supplies are available in the nearby community of Fish Camp.
Natural Features
The Sierra National Forest, located on the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada, is known for its spectacular mountain scenery and abundant natural resources. The terrain includes rolling, oak-covered foothills, heavily forested middle elevation slopes and the starkly beautiful alpine landscape of the High Sierra. Summerdale is located in the Highway 41 Corridor of the Bass Lake Ranger District, an area known for its giant sequoias. Big Creek, which runs by the campground, is active with the local beaver population.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors enjoy making day trips into Yosemite National Park, or taking a ride on the logging train at Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad. Nelder Grove is also in the vicinity, offering the opportunity to walk among giant sequoias.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
Maximum vehicle length is 25 feet
Two pets per site and leashed at all times.
Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent 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.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
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.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) 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.
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.
Click here for more information about Sierra National Forest
Be bear aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating; always keep a clean camp and do not feed any wild animals.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 62
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- 32 of 62
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…picnic table, grill and campfire ring. Vault toilets are available, and water is provided. Camping…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Meadow
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 691st darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 32 of the 62 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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $47 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.
“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · 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
62 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 62 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 26 of the 62 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. 56 of the 62 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 001 | type not stated | |||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 002 | type not stated | |||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 003 | type not stated | |||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 005 | type not stated | |||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 006 | type not stated | |||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 007 | type not stated | |||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | $47 | ||||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | FS1-20 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $47 | |||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | FS1-20N | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $47 | |||
| AREA SUMMERDALE CAMPGROUND | FS1-30 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $47 | |||
| Summerdale | SD02 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $47 | |||
| Summerdale | SD03 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $47 | |||
| Summerdale | SD04 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $47 | |||
| Summerdale | SD05 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 66 ft | 366 ft | 321 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD06 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 66 ft | 392 ft | 386 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD07 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 68 ft | 386 ft | 472 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD08 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 68 ft | 319 ft | 443 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD09 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 57 ft | 279 ft | 316 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD10 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 57 ft | 262 ft | 259 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD11 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 62 ft | 269 ft | 203 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ft | 300 ft | 141 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD13 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 221 ft | 46 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD14 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 196 ft | 24 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD15 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 146 ft | 114 ft | 170 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD16 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 75 ft | 97 ft | 126 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD17 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 49 ft | 160 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD18 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 85 ft | 106 ft | 177 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD19 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 111 ft | 272 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD20 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 129 ft | 332 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD21 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 100 ft | 98 ft | 428 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD22 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 71 ft | 117 ft | 328 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD23 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 55 ft | 135 ft | 257 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD24 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 55 ft | 148 ft | 202 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD25 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 82 ft | 153 ft | 122 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD26 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 80 ft | 92 ft | 113 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD27 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 61 ft | 142 ft | 50 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD28 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 61 ft | 202 ft | 20 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD29 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 76 ft | 221 ft | 77 ft | $47 |
| Summerdale | SD30 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 75 ft | 271 ft | 81 ft | $47 |
25 of 62 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Wawona Horse CampsitesYosemite National Park · 3.6 miNelder Grove CampgroundSierra National Forest · 4.9 miFresno Dome CampgroundSierra National Forest · 5.2 mi
Kelty MeadowSierra National Forest · 6.0 mi
Wawona CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.0 miTake Highway 41 north from Fresno, just past the town of Fish Camp. The campground is on the left side of the highway, 1.5 miles before the entrance to Yosemite National Park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fish Camp, CA
Typical weather
Typical June night 44°F, day 73°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 44°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Summerdale Campground is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →