Summit Lake North
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- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 4642 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Summit Lake North Campground (elevation 6,700 ft.) is conveniently located on the main road of Lassen Volcanic National Park. The campground is within walking distance of the small but scenic Summit Lake and eight miles from the 10,457-ft. Lassen Peak, the largest volcano in the park.. Hikers will find one of the park's major trails only 1/4-mile away from the campground and many more within a close proximity. Summit Lake North is on the opposite side of the lake from Summit Lake South Campground. Keep reading
Recreation
The campground is a hub for hiking and backpacking enthusiasts. Campers can access many of the park's 150 miles of hiking trails from the Summit Lake area. The Cluster Lakes loop trail--a major trailhead into the park's interior that bypasses several alpine lakes and is popular among birders--is located a short walk from the Summit Lake Ranger Station. This is the closest campground to the Lassen Peak Trail and within 10 miles of the hydrothermal area Bumpass Hell. Educational programs are presented at an amphitheater within the facility.
Facilities
This facility has flush toilets, drinking water, campfire rings and picnic tables. For more information visit Campgrounds of Lassen Volcanic .
Natural Features
The national park is known for its volcanic history, as well as its diversity of plants and animals. It contains 300 active volcanic domes and many hydrothermal features, such as mud pots and steam vents. Lassen Peak is the southernmost active volcano in the Cascades, and the second most recent volcano to erupt in the lower 48 of the United States before Mount Saint Helens. Lassen National Park boasts over 700 species of flowering plants and 250 native species including birds, mammals, reptiles and fish. The park is at the junction of the Cascade Mountains, the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Great Basin, providing many unique habitats.
What the agency tells you
Be bear aware; food and scented products must be stored in the bear lockers provided at each campsite
Pets are not allowed on park trails and must be on a 6-ft. leash
There are no electricity, water or sewer hook-ups
Everything else this campground posts · 5
An entrance fee of $30 per vehicle is required. We highly recommend visitors purchase the park's digital 1-7 day entrance fee or the parks annual pass throught recreation.gov prior to visiting park.
Campers must have a valid entrance permit or pass before camping
50 percent discount on camping fees applies only to lifetime pass holders and senior annual pass holders
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Please have a printed copy of your reservation with you.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 46 · 9 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 39 of 46
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal · Vault Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Visitor center
- Night sky · 116th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 27 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 42 of the 46 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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
46 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 42 mapped sitesAll 46 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 46 of the 46 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. 42 of the 46 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop A | A01 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 79 ft | 222 ft | 100 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A02 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 65 ft | 233 ft | 131 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A03 | type not stated | 25 ft | 257 ft | 52 ft | ||
| Loop A | A04 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 49 ft | 297 ft | 102 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A05 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 45 ft | 346 ft | 113 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A06 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 45 ft | 335 ft | 136 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A07 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 47 ft | 297 ft | 168 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A08 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 38 ft | 270 ft | 217 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A09 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 48 ft | 252 ft | 213 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A10 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 38 ft | 234 ft | 249 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A11 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 41 ft | 193 ft | 286 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 85 ft | 175 ft | 295 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A13 | tent only nonelectric | 21 ft | 47 ft | 260 ft | 212 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A14 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 47 ft | 278 ft | 217 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A15 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 55 ft | 331 ft | 190 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A16 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 47 ft | 270 ft | 309 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A17 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 47 ft | 317 ft | 302 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A18 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 58 ft | 343 ft | 291 ft | $24 |
| Loop A | A19 | type not stated | 22 ft | 306 ft | 281 ft | ||
| Loop A | A20 | type not stated | 22 ft | 292 ft | 179 ft | ||
| Loop A | A21 | type not stated | 23 ft | 272 ft | 278 ft | ||
| Loop B | B01 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 28 ft | 137 ft | 234 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B02 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 54 ft | 158 ft | 260 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B03 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 36 ft | 138 ft | 297 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B04 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 36 ft | 144 ft | 302 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B05 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 34 ft | 157 ft | 291 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B06 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | 34 ft | 180 ft | 285 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B07 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 51 ft | 231 ft | 247 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B08 | tent only nonelectric | 19 ft | 48 ft | 228 ft | 220 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B09 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 60 ft | 210 ft | 234 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 30 ft | 276 ft | 173 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B11 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 36 ft | 270 ft | 180 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B12 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 36 ft | 301 ft | 145 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B13 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 30 ft | 305 ft | 148 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B14 | tent only nonelectric | 21 ft | 78 ft | 380 ft | 74 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B15 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 37 ft | 346 ft | 104 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B16 | tent only nonelectric | 19 ft | 51 ft | 417 ft | 49 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B17 | tent only nonelectric | 35 ft | 51 ft | 387 ft | 99 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B18 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 32 ft | 361 ft | 117 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B19 | tent only nonelectric | 18 ft | 32 ft | 370 ft | 140 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B20 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 50 ft | 355 ft | 113 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B21 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 55 ft | 300 ft | 109 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B22 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 86 ft | 220 ft | 82 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B23 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 55 ft | 251 ft | 136 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B24 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 41 ft | 185 ft | 184 ft | $24 |
| Loop B | B25 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 28 ft | 144 ft | 208 ft | $24 |
25 of 46 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Summit Lake SouthLassen Volcanic National Park · 0.3 mi
Summit Lake Stock CorralLassen Volcanic National Park · 0.4 mi
Warner Valley CampgroundLassen Volcanic National Park · 3.9 mi
Backcountry Camping in Lassen's WildernessLassen Volcanic National Park · 4.2 mi
Lost Creek GroupLassen Volcanic National Park · 6.7 mi
Southwest CampgroundLassen Volcanic National Park · 6.9 miFrom Redding, California take State Highway 44 east approximately 48 miles to the Manzanita Lake entrance of the park. The campground is 14 miles south of the entrance on the main park road.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Warner Valley, CA
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
Summit Lake North is in California’s 1st congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Doug LaMalfa for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.