West Point Campground
1Heads up1 fire 33 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $36–$108Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2221 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
West Point Campground is located on the northwest shore of Union Valley reservoir off of North Union Valley Road. There are 22 sites ranging from sinlge to triple in capacity. There is a boat ramp with access to the reservior. The campground and boat ramp are at 4,875 feet in elevation. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating Fishing Biking Swimming Hiking Facilities 22 sites Boat ramp Day use area Nearby Attractions The Desolation Wilderness is nearby offering overnight pack trips or day hikes to see the beauty of the Seirras. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (831) 245-6891.
Charges & Cancellations
Change Fee: A service fee may be charged at the time a modification is made depending on the changes. Cancellation Fee: A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refunds for a cancelled reservation. Cut-Off Window: The latest date and/or time that you can make an advanced reservation or a change to an existing reservation. Cut-off windows can vary by location, but are typically 4 days before your arrival date. A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (see Late Cancellation below). Late Cancellation: If you cancel your reservation too close to the start date, additional service fees may be withheld. Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
What the agency tells you
Travel Notice: Starting May 2024 and continuing through September 2024, Ice House Road will be undergoing repairs. There will be traffic delays so plan your camping trip accordingly.
Bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in approved containers
Forest Order No. 19-15-01: Prohibits camping for a combined total of no more than 14 days during a calendar year (January-December), forest-wide. Visitors may book campsites annually but the maximum stay may not exceed a total of 14 days each calendar year (January-December).
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Please Note: One vehicle per single site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. Call (530) 644-6048 for local information and conditions.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (1PM) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
Don't Move Firewood: Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
First Come First Serve sites remain listed as FF for the entire season. They will not show as occupied/available online as the status of these sites is ever changing. You must be on site at the campground to claim a FF site. No guarantees upon arrival that these FF sites will be avaiable.
There is a fee to move from a reserved site to a first come first serve site. Site Transfer Policy
Click here for more information on Eldorado National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22 · 4 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- 15 of 22
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 23 of 23 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 23 of 23 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Paddle Boating
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Water access
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 29 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 21 of the 22 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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 · 23
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $36–$108 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.
“- Change Fee: A service fee may be charged at the time a modification is made depending on the changes. - Cancellation Fee: A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refunds for a cancelled reservation. - Cut-Off Window: The latest date and/or time that you can make an advanced reservation or a change to an existi…” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
23 records
All 23 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 21 of the 23 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| West | 1- Host Site | host pad | |
| West | 10 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 11 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 12 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 13 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 14 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 15 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 16 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 17 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 18 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 19 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 2 | walk to | $36–$72 |
| West | 20 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 21 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 22 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 3 | walk to | $36–$72 |
| West | 4 | walk to | $36–$72 |
| West | 5 | walk to | $36–$72 |
| West | 6 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 7 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 8 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| West | 9 | standard nonelectric | $36–$108 |
| Group | type not stated |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Sunset-Union ValleyEldorado National Forest · 2.0 miSunset CampgroundEldorado National Forest · 2.3 mi
FashodaEldorado National Forest · 2.4 mi
Wolf Creek CaliforniaEldorado National Forest · 2.4 mi
Yellowjacket3.1 mi- Access is via Highway 50, 23 miles east of Placerville, California, then
- 7 miles north on Ice House Road,
- turn left onto Peavine Ridge Road for 3 miles,
- make a right turn on Bryant Springs Road, go 5 miles north across the dam and just past the boat ramp to the right
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Pollock Pines, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 33°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
West Point 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 →