Tuttle Creek Campground
1Heads up1 fire 47 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 8382 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Overview $12.00 per site per night. No reservations. Open all year. Tuttle Creek Campground offers 81 RV/tent sites, with ten pull-through trailer spaces, maximum recommended RV length is 30 feet. All sites include a fire pit, picnic table and a lantern holder. No hook-up. Potable water is available seasonally. Dump station fee is $12.00, no passes accepted, closed in winter. Closest amenities are 5 miles northeast in Lone Pine. One group site is available for $35.00 per night. The group camping area is approximately the size of four sites combined, with six picnic tables and four fire pits. Keep reading
Tent camping will accommodate up to 15 people comfortably. RV and trailer space within the group site is limited to approximately four. Adjacent sites may be rented upon arrival. Please call for group site reservations (760) 872-5000. Two horse corrals are available for $12.00 per night, including the associated site. Weed-free hay is required. Reservations accepted. Camping for a period longer than 14 days at any one campground, not to exceed 28 days per calendar year for all Bishop Field Office campgrounds, is prohibited without the written permission from the Field Office Manager. A California Campfire Permit is not required for fires within established fire rings in developed campgrounds. Seasonal fire restrictions may prohibit campfires during periods of high fire danger. Please check the BLM’s website for information on current fire restrictions or call the Bishop Field Office at (760) 872-5000. Off Highway Vehicle Regulations Visitors are responsible for knowing area rules and regulations. The regulations are enforceable under U.S. Code of Federal Regulations and violations are punishable with fines up to $1,000 and/or imprisonment for not longer than 12 months. Within the campgrounds, all motor vehicles must adhere to the 10 mph speed limit. No motor vehicle shall exceed 15 mph within 50 feet of any campground, campsite, or concentration of people or animals. Emergency Information: In case of an emergency, call 9-1-1 Inyo County Sheriff (760) 873-7887 Mono County Sheriff (760) 932-7549 Private Lands Surrounding the BLM lands throughout the Bishop Field Office Resource Management Area is land owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power or private landowners. Please obey signs and stay on trails. Please respect the rights of private landowners and signs posted in these areas.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 83
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…table and a lantern holder. No hook-up. Potable water is available seasonally. Dump station fee is…”
- Dump station
- Yes
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:34 UTC
recreation.gov lists 82 of the 83 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 15:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
83 sites
All 83 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. 82 of the 83 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Tuttle Creek | Site #1 | type not stated | ||
| Tuttle Creek | Site #10 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #11 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #12 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #13 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #14 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #15 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #16 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #17 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #18 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #19 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #2 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #20 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #21 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #22 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #23 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #24 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #25 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #26 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #27 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #28 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #29 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #3 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #30 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #31 | standard nonelectric | yes | $10 |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #32 | standard nonelectric | yes | $10 |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #33 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #34 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #35 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #36 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #37 | standard nonelectric | yes | $10 |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #38 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #39 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #4 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #40 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #41 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #42 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #43 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #44 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #45 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #46 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #47 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #48 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #49 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #5 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #50 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #51 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #52 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #53 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #54 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #55 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #56 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #57 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #58 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #59 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #6 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #60 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #61 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #62 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #63 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #64 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #65 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #66 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #67 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #68 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #69 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #7 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #70 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #71 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #72 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #73 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #74 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #75 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #76 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #77 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #78 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #79 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #8 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #80 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #81 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #82 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #83 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Tuttle Creek | Site #9 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
25 of 83 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Lone PineInyo National Forest · 3.9 mi
Whitney PortalInyo National Forest · 6.0 miMt. Whitney Trailhead CampgroundInyo National Forest · 6.4 miCottonwood Lakes Walk in CampgroundInyo National Forest · 8.0 miCottonwood Pass Walk in CampgroundInyo National Forest · 8.4 mi
Grays MeadowsInyo National Forest · 17 miDIRECTIONS:
From Highway 395, drive 3.5 miles west of Lone Pine on Whitney Portal Road, then 1.5 miles south on Horseshow Meadow Road, follow signs to the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lone Pine, CA
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
Tuttle Creek Campground is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →