Sweetwater Campground
1Heads up1 fire 28 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
var $j = jQuery;$j.noConflict();$j(window).load(function() {$j('#slider').nivoSlider( {effect: 'fade',startSlide: 0,animSpeed: 750,pauseTime: 8000});}); Sweetwater Campground is located on a mixed conifer forested site adjacent to Highway 120, in close proximity to Yosemite National Park. Sites offer camping furniture (picnic tables, bear box, and campfire pit with grill). Accessible vault toilets are available and potable water is available over the summer season (May - Sep). CAUTION - BURNED AREA Please use caution while in the Rim Fire Burned Area . Keep reading
Potential hazards include loose and falling rocks, flash floods, and debris flows. Trees may have been weakened from fire damage and ongoing drought and may fall at any time. Stay on designated roads and trails and within opened areas. Be alert for falling objects and do not linger around large trees. Avoid the area during high winds or heavy rain.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire pit with grill). Accessible vault toilets are available and potable water is available over…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…vault toilets are available and potable water is available over the summer season (May - Sep).…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Sweetwater (Stanislaus National Forest)Stanislaus National Forest · 0.0 miLumsden Bridge CampgroundStanislaus National Forest · 2.2 mi
Lost ClaimStanislaus National Forest · 2.4 miSouth Fork CampgroundStanislaus National Forest · 2.5 mi
Pines CampgroundStanislaus National Forest · 4.9 mi
Pines StanislausStanislaus National Forest · 4.9 miThe agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Buck Meadows, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 31°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
Sweetwater 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 →