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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · CA

Tule

1Heads up1 fire 41 mi away

Wildfire

Land fire · 41 mi away · 20 acres · updated Oct 11, 2026

Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 16, 2026

ReservableBookable through April 16; tomorrow opens April 17.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:23 UTC
A night: $20–$30Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 104101 on recreation.gov

Photos · USACE, Sacramento District Public Affairs Office

80 ftLongest rig

680 ftElevation

547 ftWater · Lake Success

3 miNE of East Porterville, CA

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices

In the agency’s own words

Tule Campground is located at Success Lake in the Sierra Nevada foothills just 8 miles east of Porterville, California. A variety of outdoor recreational activities abound, including boating, kayaking and fishing. During the summer, join Park Rangers for Campfire Programs, fun activities, and giveaways every Saturday evening at the campground registration building. Keep reading

Recreation

The lake provides great opportunities for boating and swimming. Kayaking the lake's quiet, unpopulated coves is a favorite activity. Anglers fish for bass, crappie, catfish, bluegill and the occasional trout.

Facilities

The campground is open year round and offers 103 sites, several of which have electric hookups. Flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station are provided. Playgrounds and boat ramps are located on-site. Campfire programs are presented at the amphitheater on Saturdays from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend. Campground gates are closed from 10p.m. to 6 a.m.

Natural Features

Success Lake, when full, covers 82,500 acre-feet of water with a surface area of 2,450 acres. One acre-foot is equal to 325,872 gallons of water! The campground sits on the northeastern shore of the lake, in an area dotted with sparse stands of trees. Shade is limited, but springtime wildflowers bloom on the surrounding foothills, creating a beautiful display of color. Contact Info For local information, please call (559) 783-9200 or call (559) 784-0215 for general information.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Campground gates are closed from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Rule

Only vehicles with passes are allowed at campsites. Vehicles must park in allowed parking area but are strongly dependent on campsite size. Maximum of 4 no exceptions.

Rule

Only one camping unit (motorhome, trailer, etc.) per campsite.

Everything else this campground posts · 4

Rule

Pets allowed in the park, on a 6-foot or shorter leash at all times.

Rule

No off-road vehicles are allowed

Rule

Please do not tie hammocks to trees. No jump houses or water slides.

Rule

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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 104
Hookups: 23 electric, 104 water
Longest rig: 80 ft
Paved pads: All
Accessible sites: 2
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: 99 of 100 sites

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…several of which have electric hookups. Flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station are…”
Drinking water: Yes; WATER SPIGOT on 103 of 104 campsite records
Dump station: Yes
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: counted from this campground’s own campsite records and read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake; Accessible Swimming; Amphitheater; Backpacking; Biking; Birding; Boating; Canoeing; Fishing; Hiking; Horseback riding; Hunting; Information Site; Ranger programs; Jet Skiing
Night sky · 1063rd darkest of 1,201 in CA: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

110 of 184 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:23 UTC

recreation.gov lists 101 of the 104 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

OpenBooked

Booking window6 months outBookable now through April 16, 2027. Tomorrow at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$20–$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$48–$68DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$20–$30

Standard Nonelectric$20

Standard Electric$30

The agency has already scheduled a change from Jan 1, 2027: $30 to $40 a night.

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Jan 1, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$28–$38

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$48–$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

104 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 101 mapped sites

94 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

95%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most roomLoop NTUL 010 152 ftLoop NTUL 009 150 ftLoop NTUL 040 146 ftLoop NTUL 003 144 ftLoop NTUL 023 142 ft

Least roomLoop STUL 058 37 ftLoop STUL 099 37 ftLoop STUL 062 38 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 104 sites

104 of 104 sites located

Standard78RV / electric23Type not stated3

001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 Walk in-025 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 102 103 104 Walk in-101

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 101 of the 104 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


NTUL	001	standard nonelectric	50 ft			135 ft	767 ft	$20
NTUL	002	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		87 ft	696 ft	$30
NTUL	003	standard nonelectric	50 ft			144 ft	852 ft	$20
NTUL	004	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	yes	87 ft	722 ft	$30
NTUL	005	standard nonelectric	50 ft			97 ft	915 ft	$20
NTUL	006	type not stated	50 ft	50 amp			820 ft
NTUL	007	standard nonelectric	45 ft			97 ft	958 ft	$20
NTUL	008	standard electric	50 ft	50/30/50 amp		98 ft	867 ft	$30
NTUL	009	standard nonelectric	50 ft			150 ft	1,001 ft	$20
NTUL	010	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		152 ft	859 ft	$30
NTUL	011	standard nonelectric	50 ft			110 ft	984 ft	$20
NTUL	012	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		88 ft	859 ft	$30
NTUL	013	standard nonelectric	45 ft			81 ft	960 ft	$20
NTUL	014	standard nonelectric	40 ft			81 ft	972 ft	$20
NTUL	015	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		81 ft	847 ft	$30
NTUL	016	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		67 ft	811 ft	$30
NTUL	017	standard nonelectric	60 ft			125 ft	876 ft	$20
NTUL	018	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		131 ft	667 ft	$30
NTUL	019	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		67 ft	757 ft	$30
NTUL	020	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		128 ft	579 ft	$30
NTUL	021	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		135 ft	670 ft	$30
NTUL	022	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		46 ft	516 ft	$30
NTUL	023	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		143 ft	630 ft	$30
NTUL	024	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		109 ft	622 ft	$30
NTUL	026	standard nonelectric	45 ft			126 ft	435 ft	$20
NTUL	027	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		46 ft	486 ft	$30
NTUL	028	standard nonelectric	45 ft			127 ft	360 ft	$20
NTUL	029	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		122 ft	441 ft	$30
NTUL	030	standard nonelectric	45 ft			125 ft	319 ft	$20
NTUL	031	standard nonelectric	40 ft			79 ft	358 ft	$20
NTUL	032	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		114 ft	468 ft	$30
NTUL	033	standard nonelectric	40 ft			79 ft	379 ft	$20
NTUL	034	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		118 ft	545 ft	$30
NTUL	035	standard nonelectric	50 ft			118 ft	431 ft	$20
NTUL	036	standard nonelectric	40 ft			101 ft	532 ft	$20
NTUL	037	standard nonelectric	50 ft			108 ft	412 ft	$20
NTUL	038	standard nonelectric	40 ft			101 ft	543 ft	$20
NTUL	039	standard nonelectric	40 ft			108 ft	421 ft	$20
NTUL	040	standard nonelectric	40 ft			146 ft	371 ft	$20
NTUL	041	standard nonelectric	40 ft			139 ft	268 ft	$20
NTUL	042	standard nonelectric	45 ft			116 ft	406 ft	$20
NTUL	043	standard nonelectric	55 ft			76 ft	506 ft	$20
NTUL	044	standard nonelectric	45 ft			76 ft	545 ft	$20
NTUL	045	standard nonelectric	40 ft			142 ft	634 ft	$20
NTUL	046	standard nonelectric	50 ft			103 ft	681 ft	$20
NTUL	047	standard nonelectric	50 ft			103 ft	739 ft	$20
NTUL	048	standard nonelectric	45 ft			73 ft	771 ft	$20
NTUL	049	standard nonelectric	45 ft			109 ft	848 ft	$20
NTUL	050	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		73 ft	785 ft	$30
NTUL	Walk in-025	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		120 ft	503 ft	$30
STUL	051	standard nonelectric	80 ft			47 ft	752 ft	$20
STUL	052	standard nonelectric	40 ft			63 ft	845 ft	$20
STUL	053	standard nonelectric	80 ft			47 ft	771 ft	$20
STUL	054	standard nonelectric	45 ft			82 ft	871 ft	$20
STUL	055	standard nonelectric	60 ft			105 ft	861 ft	$20
STUL	056	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes	63 ft	982 ft	$30
STUL	057	standard nonelectric	75 ft			96 ft	889 ft	$20
STUL	058	standard nonelectric	40 ft			37 ft	1,015 ft	$20
STUL	059	standard nonelectric	75 ft			81 ft	928 ft	$20
STUL	060	standard nonelectric	40 ft			98 ft	1,036 ft	$20
STUL	061	standard nonelectric	40 ft			93 ft	1,101 ft	$20
STUL	062	standard nonelectric	75 ft			38 ft	1,059 ft	$20
STUL	063	standard nonelectric	50 ft			57 ft	1,098 ft	$20
STUL	064	standard nonelectric	75 ft			99 ft	953 ft	$20
STUL	065	standard nonelectric	60 ft			115 ft	843 ft	$20
STUL	066	standard nonelectric	40 ft			75 ft	848 ft	$20
STUL	067	standard nonelectric	40 ft			75 ft	775 ft	$20
STUL	068	standard nonelectric	40 ft			91 ft	686 ft	$20
STUL	069	standard nonelectric	70 ft			95 ft	601 ft	$20
STUL	070	standard nonelectric	40 ft			93 ft	594 ft	$20
STUL	071	standard nonelectric	80 ft			90 ft	509 ft	$20
STUL	072	standard nonelectric	40 ft			102 ft	483 ft	$20
STUL	073	standard nonelectric	45 ft			110 ft	381 ft	$20
STUL	074	standard nonelectric	80 ft			66 ft	436 ft	$20
STUL	075	standard nonelectric	50 ft			102 ft	316 ft	$20
STUL	076	standard nonelectric	50 ft			102 ft	323 ft	$20
STUL	077	standard nonelectric	70 ft			81 ft	944 ft	$20
STUL	078	standard nonelectric	70 ft			38 ft	1,028 ft	$20
STUL	079	standard nonelectric	50 ft			81 ft	881 ft	$20
STUL	080	standard nonelectric	70 ft			129 ft	907 ft	$20
STUL	081	standard nonelectric	45 ft			73 ft	1,022 ft	$20
STUL	082	standard nonelectric	60 ft			120 ft	897 ft	$20
STUL	083	standard nonelectric	45 ft			97 ft	925 ft	$20
STUL	084	standard nonelectric	60 ft			97 ft	760 ft	$20
STUL	085	standard nonelectric	40 ft			97 ft	812 ft	$20
STUL	086	standard nonelectric	40 ft			92 ft	711 ft	$20
STUL	087	standard nonelectric	60 ft			94 ft	610 ft	$20
STUL	088	standard nonelectric	60 ft			92 ft	622 ft	$20
STUL	089	standard nonelectric	70 ft			94 ft	516 ft	$20
STUL	090	standard nonelectric	40 ft			66 ft	502 ft	$20
STUL	091	standard nonelectric	50 ft			71 ft	746 ft	$20
STUL	092	type not stated	80 ft	50 amp			823 ft
STUL	093	standard nonelectric	50 ft			71 ft	805 ft	$20
STUL	094	standard nonelectric	80 ft			63 ft	904 ft	$20
STUL	095	standard nonelectric	80 ft			82 ft	952 ft	$20
STUL	096	standard nonelectric	60 ft			113 ft	1,073 ft	$20
STUL	097	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		63 ft	1,033 ft	$30
STUL	098	standard nonelectric	45 ft			77 ft	1,109 ft	$20
STUL	099	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		37 ft	1,051 ft	$30
STUL	100	standard nonelectric	45 ft			110 ft	1,160 ft	$20
STUL	102	standard nonelectric	60 ft			57 ft	1,123 ft	$20
STUL	103	standard nonelectric	80 ft			79 ft	1,022 ft	$20
STUL	104	standard nonelectric	80 ft			103 ft	951 ft	$20
STUL	Walk in-101	type not stated	80 ft	50 amp			1,124 ft

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

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 104 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate36.08028, -118.90222

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone559-784-0215

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

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Grouse Valley CabinsGiant Sequoia National Monument · 16 mi

Getting there

30300 CA-190, Porterville, CA 93257

Head towards Porterville CA. In Porterville take SR190 east towards Lake Success/Camp Nelson for approximately 12 miles. Turn left on Success Valley Dr/Ave160.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon89°Sunny

Tonight63°Clear

Saturday89°Sunny

Saturday Night63°Clear

NWS forecast for East Porterville, CA

Source: National Weather Service, HNX forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 53°F, day 82°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 39°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

110°30°

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.

Measured at: PORTERVILLE, CA (USC00047077), 7 miles away and 287 ft lower

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Watch

Giant Sequoia National Monumentclimate, logging · 20 mi

Roadless

Black Mtn.15,102 acres · 10 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 9, 2026

Who answers for this land

Tule 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 30 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 101 of the 104 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 104 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.91 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 1,201 rated federal campgrounds in California · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026