Trimmer Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:17 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Trimmer Campground is a small facility on the shore of Pine Flat Lake in central California. Pine Flat Lake spans 20 miles in length and boasts 67 miles of shoreline. The lake, formed in 1954 with the completion of the Pine Flat Dam on the Kings River, is a recreation oasis for the area. Visitors can fish, boat, swim, hike and hunt from the facility, and several other activities can be accessed within a short drive. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, jet skiing, water skiing and fishing are some of the most popular activities at the lake, and a full-service marina is available. The lake and surrounding watersheds have great fishing. Anglers will find wild trout above and in the lake, as well as large and smallmouth bass, bluegill, crappie, and planted trout.
Facilities
The campground is a small, single-looped facility with 10 individual campsites overlooking Pine Flat Lake. Each campsite features a picnic table, campfire ring and grill. The campground has a well lit, accessible restroom with flush toilets and free hot showers. A boat ramp and courtesy dock are adjacent to the campground, and a marina is close by.
Natural Features
Pine Flat Lake is situated where oak and pine forests meet in the foothills of the central Sierra Nevada Mountains. It sits in Kings Canyon at the western edge of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Wildlife spotting opportunities include bobcats and red-tailed hawks.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors can head upstream on Kings River to find superb whitewater rafting in spring and early summer, and scenic drives through Sierra National Forest and Kings Canyon National Park never cease to impress.
What the agency tells you
Maximum 2 vehicles per campsite.
Maximum 8 persons per campsite.
Maximum 14 day camping limit.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Due to low water levels, lake access from the campground may not be available.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Quiet hours are from 10 pm - 6 am (All generators need to be turned off during quiet hours).
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10 · 5 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…campground has a well lit, accessible restroom with flush toilets and free hot showers. A boat ramp and courtesy dock…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The campground has a well lit, accessible restroom with flush toilets and free hot showers.”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 986th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
5 of 20 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:17 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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 16:17 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
10 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 10 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 10 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Trimmer Loop | 01 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 63 ft | 22 ft | $20 |
| Trimmer Loop | 02 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 35 ft | under 10 ft | $20 |
| Trimmer Loop | 03 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 35 ft | under 10 ft | $20 |
| Trimmer Loop | 04 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 30 ft | 30 ft | $20 |
| Trimmer Loop | 05 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 26 ft | 59 ft | $20 |
| Trimmer Loop | 06 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 26 ft | 83 ft | $20 |
| Trimmer Loop | 07 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 31 ft | 115 ft | $20 |
| Trimmer Loop | 08 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 20 ft | 152 ft | $20 |
| Trimmer Loop | 09 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 20 ft | 172 ft | $20 |
| Trimmer Loop | 10 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 63 ft | 84 ft | $20 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Island Park3.0 miPine Flat Campground5.9 miKirch Flat CampgroundSierra National Forest · 8.1 miFence Meadow Camping AreaSierra National Forest · 8.2 mi
Kirch Flat Group CampgroundSierra National Forest · 8.2 miOak Flat Camping AreaSierra National Forest · 9.5 miFrom Fresno, California, travel east on Highway 180/Kings Canyon Highway to Academy Avenue. Turn left onto Academy Avenue, and then turn right on Belmont Avenue. Continue traveling for approximately 26 miles; the entrance to Trimmer Recreation Area is on the right. NOTE: Belmont Avenue becomes East Trimmer Springs Road approximately 6 miles east of the Academy Avenue intersection.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Auberry, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 80°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 37°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
Trimmer Campground is in California’s 20th congressional district. Its representative, Vince Fong (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →