Warm Springs Rec Area
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This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:16 UTC
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Warm Springs Recreation Area is a day-use park located at Lake Sonoma, which is just a 45 minute drive north of Santa Rosa and a 2 hour trip from San Francisco. There is no overnight camping available at this facility World famous vineyards and a land rich in history surround the lake, where visitors enjoy boating, fishing and exploring the area's extensive trail network. Keep reading
Recreation
The Woodland Ridge Nature Trail begins at the park and winds up the ridge, rewarding hikers with great views of the Dry Creek Valley and Lake Sonoma. The recreation area offers two sand volleyball courts and a large play area for football, baseball or other field sports. A small playground with a tire swing, slides and climbing structures is also on-site. The lake provides great boating and swimming opportunities. Anglers fish for large and smallmouth bass, catfish and sunfish. A small native population of rainbow trout exists in the waters as well.
Facilities
Warm Springs Recreation Area offers six group day-use picnic sites; there is no overnight camping available. Each site contains a covered shelter with seating for approximately 75 people. Each site is also equipped with picnic tables and a large grill. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Individual picnic sites are available on a first come, first served basis.
Natural Features
Lake Sonoma is nestled in the beautiful coastal foothills of Sonoma County, California. A large grassy, mowed field surrounds Warm Spring's picnic areas; shade trees are scattered around the field.
Nearby Attractions
Across the street from the picnic area, visitors can discover the natural and cultural history of the area at the Milt Brandt Visitor Center.
What the agency tells you
Day use only; No overnight camping
Amplified music is prohibited
Visitors must park in one of two large parking areas and walk to the picnic sites
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with picnic tables and a large grill. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Individual picnic…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and a large grill. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Individual picnic sites are available…”
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Disc Golf
- Picnicking
- Visitor center
1 of 1 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:16 UTC
The agency files 6 records here and marks every one of them day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
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 16:16 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
6 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 6 mapped sitesAll 6 records
| JUNI | 3 | day use | 416 ft | 514 ftDry Creek | $50–$75 | ||
| POKE | 2 | day use | 15 amp | yes | 390 ft | 777 ft | $50–$75 |
| POMO | 6 | day use | yes | 416 ft | 134 ft | $50–$75 | |
| QUAI | 4 | day use | yes | 357 ft | 542 ftDry Creek | $50–$75 | |
| REDW | 1 | day use | yes | 390 ft | 936 ft | $50–$75 | |
| WILL | 5 | day use | 357 ft | 394 ftDry Creek | $50–$75 |
The agency files 6 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Boat-In Sites (Lake Sonoma)0.7 mi
Liberty Glen (Lake Sonoma)3.1 miSheldon Creek CampgroundUkiah Field Office · 16 miBuckhorn CampgroundUkiah Field Office · 22 miRed Mountain CampgroundUkiah Field Office · 26 miMayacmas CampgroundUkiah Field Office · 31 miTake Highway 101 to Healdsburg and exit on Dry Creek Road. Travel west another 11 miles to park boundary. Watch the road signs and make a left turn across from the visitor center to reach the Warm Springs Recreation Area.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Geyserville, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 81°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 · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Warm Springs Rec Area is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyJared HuffmanU.S. Representative · California’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAdam B. SchiffU.S. Senator · California
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAlex PadillaU.S. Senator · California
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Warm Springs Rec Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Jared Huffman, I’m a constituent in California’s 2nd district. Warm Springs Rec Area, California carries 6 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Warm Springs Rec Area (California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Warm Springs Rec Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Adam B. Schiff, I’m a constituent in California. Warm Springs Rec Area, California carries 6 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Warm Springs Rec Area (California) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Warm Springs Rec Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Alex Padilla, I’m a constituent in California. Warm Springs Rec Area, California carries 6 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Warm Springs Rec Area (California) via campanac.com