Sycamore Grove (Red Bluff) Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:42 UTC
- A night
- $16–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 31All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sycamore Grove Campground sits along the banks of the sparkling Sacramento River at a 300-foot elevation, within the 488-acre Red Bluff Recreation Area. The area is an isolated parcel of the Mendocino National Forest in Northern California, in Red Bluff, CA. Visitors to the campground enjoy shady oak and sycamore trees and grassy fields within a beautiful riparian environment. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors can enjoy the 4-mile paved nature trail, which winds through flowering grasslands, wetlands and oak woodlands, providing access to an abundance of plants and wildlife, as well as incredible views of Mount Shasta, Mount Lassen and the Yolla Bolly Mountains. The nearby river provides visitors with access to a variety of water-related recreation opportunities, including fishing, boating, water skiing, jet skiing, swimming and canoeing. A variety of fish can be seen in the river, including Chinook, Steelhead, and Striped Bass.
Facilities
The campground offers more than two dozen, single-family and double campsites, available for tent and RV camping. Campsites are equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Potable water is provided.
Natural Features
Sycamore Grove is a beautiful campground that is open year-round. Campsites and open areas throughout the campground are covered in lush, green grass, with shade trees towering overhead. The campground provides access to a variety of hiking and biking trails, as well as the scenic Sacramento River, which is open to all types of water sports. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 934-3316.
Nearby Attractions
Sycamore Grove Campground is located in the middle of the Northern Sacramento Valley. It is two miles from the city of Red Bluff, 25 miles from Rolling Hills Casino, 34 Miles from Redding California, 40 miles from Lake Shasta, and 60 miles from Lassen Volcanic National Park.
What the agency tells you
Maximum consecutive stay for this campground is 14 days. Then you must leave for at least 16 days before returning. You cannot stay more than 28 days in a 12-month period.
You must pick up after your dog. We provide bags for this purpose. Failure to do so can result in a fine under 36 C.F.R. § 261.16(p).
Only 2 dogs are allowed per camp site and must be on a leash at all times.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Showers are operated with quarters. There is no change made on site.
No dump station provided.
Campground has an electronic gate that closes daily at 10 p.m. and opens at 6 a.m. The gate code is listed in the alerts section of your confirmation.
No designated swim area; swim at your own risk.
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.
To make a reservation or changes to your reservation, please call 877-444-6777.
No late check outs! Must vacate the premise by 11:00.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 31 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 10 electric, 10 water
- Longest rig
- 44 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…tables and campfire rings with grills. Potable water is provided. Natural Features Sycamore Grove is a…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 28 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 1056th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
38 of 60 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:42 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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, $16–$30 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:42 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
31 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 31 mapped sitesAll 31 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 31 of the 31 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. 29 of the 31 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 84 ft | 514 ft | 336 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 39 ft | 559 ft | 346 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 39 ft | 521 ft | 312 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 33 ft | 517 ft | 280 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 33 ft | 485 ft | 250 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 68 ft | 468 ft | 221 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 007 Double Site | group standard area nonelectric | 44 ft | 62 ft | 490 ft | 244 ft | ||
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 62 ft | 475 ft | 238 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 61 ft | 516 ft | 299 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 54 ft | 474 ft | 279 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 54 ft | 428 ft | 225 ft | $25 |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 100 ft | 377 ft | 137 ft | $25 |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 87 ft | 327 ft | 85 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 276 ft | 92 ft | $25 |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 015 | rv electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 260 ft | 178 ft | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 40 ft | 247 ft | 208 ft | $25 |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 289 ft | 271 ft | $25 |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 18 ft | 295 ft | 325 ft | $25 |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 18 ft | 303 ft | 337 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 18 ft | 275 ft | 421 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 18 ft | 257 ft | 424 ft | $25 |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 35 ft | 264 ft | 482 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 35 ft | 252 ft | 515 ft | $25 |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 254 ft | 571 ft | $25 |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 86 ft | 337 ft | 553 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 40 ft | 378 ft | 468 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 40 ft | 415 ft | 463 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 43 ft | 415 ft | 421 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 23 ft | 495 ft | 401 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 23 ft | 478 ft | 378 ft | $16–$30 | |
| SYCAMORE GROVE (RED BLUFF) CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 477 ft | 351 ft | $16–$30 |
25 of 31 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Camp Discovery Group Camp (Red Bluff Recreation Area)Mendocino National Forest · 0.4 miMassacre FlatRedding Field Office · 11 miReading IslandRedding Field Office · 16 miMill Creek Campground24 mi
Buckhorn25 miBlack Rock CampgroundLassen National Forest · 26 miFrom Interstate 5 at Red Bluff, take Antelope Boulevard east for about a quarter-mile. Turn right (south) on Sale Lane continue for approximately 3 miles to the Red Bluff Recreation Area entrance gate. Continue on that road until you get to the Sacramento River Discovery Center than turn left. The campground entrance is aproximately 600ft. down on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Red Bluff, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 38°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Sycamore Grove (Red Bluff) Campground 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.