Ten Mile Campground (CA)
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $36–$71Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 1110 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Ten Mile Campground is a primitive campground located 5 miles from Hume Lake on Tenmile Road. A stream runs through the campground. Nearby Hume Lake is one of Sequoia National Forest's most visited destinations. The area offers year-round recreational opportunities, including fishing, canoeing, hiking, biking, snowmobiling, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. Keep reading
Recreation
Nearby Hume Lake is a year-round recreation destination. During warmer months, visitors can enjoy fishing, non-motorized boating, hiking and mountain biking. During the winter, the area is popular for snowshoeing, cross country skiing and snowmobiling.
Facilities
The campground offers single and double-family campsites, picnic tables, campfire rings and bearlockers are provided, as are vault toilets.
Natural Features
The campground is adjacent to Ten Mile Creek, a creek popular with anglers and hunters and dwarfed by towering Sequoia and Ponderosa pines at an elevation of 5,294 feet. Sequoia National Forest is located at the southern end of the Sierra Nevada in central California and named for the giant sequoia, the world's largest tree, which grows in more than 30 groves on the forest's lower slopes. The forest comprises about 1.1 million acres. Elevations range from about 1,000 to 12,000 feet, creating precipitous canyons and mountain streams with spectacular waterfalls such as Grizzly Falls.
Nearby Attractions
Bearskin Grove offers the rare opportunity to photograph an entire mature sequoia in one frame. Hiking through the grove, visitors will find a mix of young and old sequoias, including about 50 trees that measure over six feet in diameter. Take Tenmile Road (Forest Road 13S09) to Forest Road 13S02, then 13S98 to enter the grove. Places like Hume Lake, Boyden Cavern, and Princess Meadow are nearby summer recreation opportunities. Visitors enjoy making day trips to nearby Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks and Giant Sequoia National Monument. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
What the agency tells you
There is no water available at this campground. Guests can obtain water at nearby Landslide Campground during the duration of your stay.
This is black bear country; special food storage regulations are in effect and must be followed
No all-terrain or off-highway vehicle use in the campground
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Click Here to learn more about Sequoia National Forest
Camping fee does not include National Park Service entrance fee
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. For current fire conditions or weather closures contact the Hume Lake Ranger District, (559) 338-2251
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 Click Here
Overnight camping fee includes 1 car or RV/Trailer with tow vehicle. There is an additional fee $8.00 for each vehicle per night of stay. If you have an extra vehicle, it must fit on the site parking spur.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11 · 6 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and bearlockers are provided, as are vault toilets. Natural Features The campground is adjacent to Ten…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, Creek, Meadow
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 714th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 10 of the 11 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
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $36–$71 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 11 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. 10 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Ten Mile | 001 | type not stated | 35 ft | 290 ft | ||
| Ten Mile | 002 | rv nonelectric | 22 ft | 105 ft | 252 ft | $36–$71 |
| Ten Mile | 003 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 105 ft | 166 ft | $36–$71 |
| Ten Mile | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 158 ft | $36–$71 |
| Ten Mile | 005 | rv nonelectric | 14 ft | 53 ft | 128 ft | $36–$71 |
| Ten Mile | 006 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 100 ft | 60 ft | $36–$71 |
| Ten Mile | 007 | rv nonelectric | 40 ft | 206 ft | 190 ft | $36–$71 |
| Ten Mile | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 65 ft | 132 ft | $36–$71 |
| Ten Mile | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 27 ft | 65 ft | 131 ft | $36–$71 |
| Ten Mile | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | 141 ft | 302 ft | $36–$71 |
| Ten Mile | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 141 ft | 441 ft | $36–$71 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
LandslideGiant Sequoia National Monument · 1.0 mi
Logger Flat GroupGiant Sequoia National Monument · 1.6 mi
Aspen Hollow Group (Sequoia National Forest, CA)Giant Sequoia National Monument · 2.0 mi
Hume LakeGiant Sequoia National Monument · 3.0 miHorse Camp CampgroundGiant Sequoia National Monument · 3.5 mi
Crystal Springs Campground (CA)Kings Canyon National Park · 3.8 miFrom Fresno, take Highway 180 east to the Park entrance, turn right on Generals Highway. Turn left on Ten Mile Road, campground approximately five miles on left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wilsonia, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 25°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
Ten Mile Campground (CA) 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 →