Warm Springs Rec Area
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 12 mi
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:08 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
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:08 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
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Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Warm Springs Rec Area closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Tomales Bay Boat-in CampingPoint Reyes National Seashore · 39 mi · 20 sites
- Sky CampgroundPoint Reyes National Seashore · 48 mi · 12 sites
- Coast CampgroundPoint Reyes National Seashore · 49 mi · 14 sites
- Glen CampgroundPoint Reyes National Seashore · 52 mi · 12 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 15:08 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
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 →