Sunset-Union Valley
1Heads up1 fire 34 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $36–$108Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 178119 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sunset Campground is situated on the shores of Union Valley Reservoir, among the towering cedar and ponderosa pines of Eldorado National Forest. Aptly named, the campground is a fantastic destination for colorful sunset views over the lake. All water activities are popular here, but it's also fun to bring a bike and explore the neighboring bike trail. Eldorado includes the famed gold mining territory of the 1800s. Remnants of the days of the California Gold Rush can be found all around the region. Keep reading
Recreation
On the water, sailing, boating and swimming are very popular. For hikers and bikers, the Union Valley Bike Trail and Bassi Falls Hiking Trail are great for exploring. Fishing in the lake includes rainbow, brown, mackinaw trout and kokanee salmon. The bike trail connects with the campground, near the boat ramp, and stretches for 4.8 miles along the eastern shores of the lake.
Facilities
The large campground has 121 single-unit sites including 30 tent-only spots. Amenities include a boat ramp with an accessible boarding dock, a paved parking area, dump station, vault toilets and drinking water. A swimming beach is also located onsite. The First Come First Serve sites located at this campground 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.
Natural Features
Sunset Campground sits in the Crystal Basin at an elevation of 5,000 feet. Some sites are fully shaded while others sit in a meadow. The climate is similar to that of the Mediterranean with warm, dry summers and cold, wet winters.
Nearby Attractions
Venture to the nearby lake, Ice House Reservoir or hike up Twin Peaks to look down over Union Valley Reservoir. A restaurant and general store are within 5 miles of the campground. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (831) 245-6891 for general information.
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. Customers who cancel a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee. 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
Bears frequent the area; use appropiate food containers
There are no electric/water/sewer site hook-ups at this facility
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
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.
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.
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.
There are fees to move from a reserved site to first come first serve site. Site Transfer Policy
Click here for more information on the Eldorado National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 178 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- 119 of 178
- Accessible sites
- 37
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 12 of 178 campsite records
- Showers
- Coin Showers
- COIN SHOWERS on 122 of 178 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 122 of 178 campsite records, DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 1 of 178 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 122 of 178 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Beach, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Sailing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 775th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 26 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 119 of the 178 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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $36–$108 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
178 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 63 mapped sitesAll 178 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 173 of the 178 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 SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 001 | type not stated | 721 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 002 | type not stated | 750 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 003 | type not stated | 811 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 005 | type not stated | 887 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 006 | type not stated | 825 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 007 | type not stated | 739 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 008 | type not stated | 791 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 010 | type not stated | 642 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 011 | type not stated | 642 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 012 | type not stated | 581 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 013 | type not stated | 673 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 014 | type not stated | 542 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 016 | type not stated | 556 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 017 | type not stated | 514 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 018 | type not stated | 543 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 037 | type not stated | 592 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 038 | type not stated | 718 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 039 | type not stated | 620 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 041 | type not stated | 507 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 042 | type not stated | 512 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 043 | type not stated | 414 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 044 | type not stated | 410 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 045 | type not stated | 310 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 046 | type not stated | 262 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 047 | type not stated | 326 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 048 | type not stated | 333 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 049 | type not stated | 449 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 050 | type not stated | under 10 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 081 | type not stated | 304 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 082 | type not stated | 266 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 083 | type not stated | 211 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 084 | type not stated | 277 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 085 | type not stated | 180 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 086 | type not stated | 184 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 087 | type not stated | 190 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 088 | type not stated | 261 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 089 | type not stated | 157 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 090 | type not stated | 536 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 091 | type not stated | 539 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 092 | type not stated | 512 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 093 | type not stated | 513 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 094 | type not stated | 491 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 095 | type not stated | 480 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 096 | type not stated | 480 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 097 | type not stated | 506 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 098 | type not stated | 548 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 112 | type not stated | 455 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 113 | type not stated | 485 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 114 | type not stated | 473 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 115 | type not stated | 222 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 116 | type not stated | 308 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 117 | type not stated | 215 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 118 | type not stated | 328 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 119 | type not stated | 310 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 120 | type not stated | 387 ft | $36 | |||
| AREA SUNSET-UNION VALLEY | 121 | type not stated | 431 ft | $36 | |||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 001 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 002 | type not stated | $36 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 003 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 004 | standard nonelectric | yes | 287 ft | 856 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 1 SHADY | 005 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 006 | rv nonelectric | |||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 007 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 008 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 348 ft | 599 ft | $36–$108 |
| Loop 1 SHADY | 010 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 011 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 012 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 013 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 014 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 015 | standard nonelectric | yes | 283 ft | 491 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 1 SHADY | 016 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 017 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 018 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 019 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 82 ft | 615 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 1 SHADY | 020 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 697 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 021 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 112 ft | 671 ft | $36–$108 |
| Loop 1 SHADY | 022 | standard nonelectric | yes | 95 ft | 787 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 1 SHADY | 023 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 82 ft | 819 ft | $36–$108 |
| Loop 1 SHADY | 024 | rv nonelectric | yes | 82 ft | 795 ft | ||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 025 | standard nonelectric | yes | 92 ft | 643 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 1 SHADY | 026 | rv nonelectric | yes | 67 ft | 724 ft | ||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 027 | standard nonelectric | yes | 77 ft | 608 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 1 SHADY | 028 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 67 ft | 684 ft | $36–$108 |
| Loop 1 SHADY | 029 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 702 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 1 SHADY | 030 | standard nonelectric | yes | 72 ft | 633 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 1 SHADY | 031 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 700 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 Meadow | 037 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 Meadow | 038 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 Meadow | 039 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 032 | standard nonelectric | yes | 97 ft | 458 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 033 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 406 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 034 | standard nonelectric | 107 ft | 524 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 035 | standard nonelectric | yes | 94 ft | 528 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 036 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 616 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 040 | standard nonelectric | 219 ft | 605 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 041 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 042 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 043 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 044 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 045 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 046 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 047 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 048 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 049 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 050 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 051 | standard nonelectric | yes | 106 ft | 563 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 052 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 602 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 053 | standard nonelectric | yes | 106 ft | 663 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 054 | standard nonelectric | 118 ft | 635 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 055 | standard nonelectric | yes | 118 ft | 651 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 056 | type not stated | yes | 580 ft | $36 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 057 | standard nonelectric | yes | 82 ft | 675 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 058 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 608 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 059 | standard nonelectric | yes | 110 ft | 575 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 060 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 510 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 061 | standard nonelectric | yes | 63 ft | 354 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 062 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 347 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 063 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 265 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 064 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 187 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 065 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 111 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 066 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 228 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 067 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 147 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 068 | standard nonelectric | yes | 122 ft | 214 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 069 | standard nonelectric | yes | 122 ft | 143 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 070 | standard nonelectric | 134 ft | 204 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 071 | standard nonelectric | 112 ft | 305 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 072 | standard nonelectric | yes | 112 ft | 402 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 073 | standard nonelectric | yes | 71 ft | 585 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 074 | standard nonelectric | yes | 71 ft | 631 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 2 MEADOW | 075 | standard nonelectric | yes | 87 ft | 658 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 076 | standard nonelectric | yes | 137 ft | 305 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 077 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 169 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 078 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 134 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 079 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 172 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 080 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 135 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 081 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 082 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 083 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 084 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 085 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 086 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 087 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 088 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 089 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 090 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 091 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 092 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 093 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 094 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 095 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 096 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 097 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 098 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 099 | standard nonelectric | yes | 30 ft | 593 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 100 | rv nonelectric | 48 ft | 621 ft | |||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 101 | standard nonelectric | yes | 30 ft | 623 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 102 | type not stated | 30 ft | yes | 559 ft | $36 | |
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 103 | standard nonelectric | yes | 28 ft | 534 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 104 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 28 ft | 531 ft | $36–$108 | |
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 105 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 630 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 106 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 604 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 107 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 579 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 108 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 526 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 109 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 549 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 110 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 509 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 111 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 529 ft | $36–$108 | ||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 112 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 113 | standard nonelectric | yes | $36–$108 | |||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 114 | standard nonelectric | yes | $36–$108 | |||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 115 | standard nonelectric | yes | $36–$108 | |||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 116 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 117 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 118 | standard nonelectric | yes | $36–$108 | |||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 119 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 120 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Loop 3 SUNSET | 121 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 | ||||
| Group | group standard nonelectric | yes |
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 178 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
FashodaEldorado National Forest · 0.4 miJones Fork CampgroundEldorado National Forest · 1.2 mi
Wolf Creek CaliforniaEldorado National Forest · 1.2 miCamino Cove CampgroundEldorado National Forest · 1.5 mi
Yellowjacket1.9 miOn Highway 50, east of Placerville, travel for 21 miles to the Icehouse Road turnoff on your left. Continue north for 16 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 October night 48°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
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

Sunset-Union Valley 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 →