White Wolf Campground
1Heads up1 fire 21 mi away
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Sites
- 7449 on recreation.gov
- Season
- July 2 – September 14Open July 2 through September 14
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
There is no drinking water provided here. Restrooms are portable toilets. Staying at White Wolf Campground requires reservations. White Wolf typically opens mid-July and closes mid to late September, depending on the opening of the Tioga Road and related seasonal facility and road work. White Wolf Campground is located off the Tioga Road between Tuolumne Meadows and Crane Flat, approximately an hour from Yosemite Valley at 8,000 feet (2,400 m). The campground is tucked into the forest about a mile from Tioga Road near White Wolf Lodge. Trailheads nearby lead to Lukens and Harden Lakes and the area is popular for those accessing other wilderness destinations. Minimal services may be available at White Wolf Lodge (if open). There are no other visitor services close to the campground. Keep reading
Recreation
Yosemite's trails, cliffs, roads and rivers provide endless recreational activities for any kind of visitor. Hiking, biking, rock climbing, fishing, horseback riding, rafting, auto touring, and photography are all very popular activities within the park. The White Wolf area has hiking and backpacking opportunities that begin near the campground, such as Lukens Lake, Harden Lake and the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne. The Crane Flat area, 23 miles west, offers many other hiking opportunities such as Tuolumne and Merced Groves of Giant Sequoias, both of which require a 2.5 to 3-mile roundtrip hike to view. Tuolumne Meadows and all it's High Sierra wonder lie 25 miles to the east, where many beautiful day and overnight excursions await.
Facilities
Seasonal facilities include potable water (not available in 2025), flush toilets (not available in 2025), trash/recycling collection, food storage lockers, fire rings, picnic tables, staff/host on-site, and an amphitheater. NOTE: White Wolf is open but with portable toilets and NO DRINKING WATER. Wood and charcoal fires are permitted when the campground is open. There is no cell phone reception, no internet connectivity, no camp store, no ice or firewood for sale, no laundry facilities, no dump station and no showers.
Natural Features
Yosemite National Park covers nearly 1,200 square miles (3,100 square km) in the Sierra Nevada, with elevations ranging from about 2,000 feet (600 m) to 13,000 ft (4,000 m). Yosemite receives 95% of its precipitation between October and May (and over 75% between November and March). Most of Yosemite is blanketed in snow from about November through May. The Valley can be rainy or snowy in any given winter storm.
Nearby Attractions
Groceries: Yosemite Valley, Crane Flat (a small convenience store in the gas station ) and Tuolumne Meadows ( convenience store and grill) or Lee Vining. Restaurants: Yosemite Valley or Lee Vining. Post Office: Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne Meadows Showers: Yosemite Valley at Curry Village and Housekeeping Camp Dump Station: Available all year in Yosemite Valley in Upper Pines Campground.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancelling your reservation more than 48 hours ahead of your arrival date will result in a refund, less a $10 service fee. If the cancellation is within 48 hours of the arrival date, the first night's fee will also be charged. Cancellations for a single night’s use within 48 hours will not receive a refund, but will not be assessed an additional service fee. No-shows will be charged a $20 service fee and the first night's fee.
What the agency tells you
You are responsible for reading the site alerts and booking a site that will accommodate your equipment.
If arriving one or more days late, call (209) 379-2123; your reservation will be cancelled if we do not hear from you within 24 hours of your arrival date.
Bring proof of your reservation (screen shot or paper version). There is no internet access, cell service or public phone at White Wolf. - You must sign in at the entrance of the campground or you will be considered a no show and your reservation cancelled. - Make your site look occupied--leave a chair or other equipment so we know you've arrived.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Bear Habitat! Food and toiletries must be stored 24 hours/day o Food storage lockers are provided in all campsites (43 inches wide x 28 inches high x 35 inches deep). o Absolutely NO food stored in vehicles. o Dispose of garbage immediately in bear-proof dumpsters.
There is NO DRINKING WATER at White Wolf this year; you must bring your own. Only portable (non-flush) toilets will be available.
Check-in and check-out time is 12 noon.
There are no electric, water, or sewer hook-ups at this facility; however, a dump station is located in Yosemite Valley and in Tuolumne Meadows.
Your camping reservation does NOT get you into Yosemite for free. You must pay an additional fee per vehicle at the park entrance or buy a pass ahead of time on recreation.gov.
For additional park information, visit www.nps.gov/yose
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Help Yosemite be a Zero Landfill park! Leave excess packaging at home. Use refillable water bottles, propane canisters, food containers and travel mugs. Place all of your recyclable waste in designated recycling containers. For more information go to: www.nps.gov/yose/getinvolved/
Resale or auction of advance reservations is prohibited.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 74 · 5 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 27 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - seasonal
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There is no cell phone reception, no internet connectivity, no camp store, no ice or firewood for sale, no laundry facilities, no dump station and no showers.”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- Store
- Nearby
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Meadow
- Amphitheater
- Backpacking
- Climbing
- Environmental Education
- Evening Programs
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Mountain Climbing
- Picnicking
- Scenic drives
- Swimming
- Wilderness access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 303rd darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Park Service says
- None
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 49 of the 74 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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 10
What you actually pay
“Cancelling your reservation more than 48 hours ahead of your arrival date will result in a refund, less a $10 service fee. No-shows will be charged a $20 service fee and the first night's fee.” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
74 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 49 mapped sitesAll 74 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 74 of the 74 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| White Wolf | 01 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 82 ft | 733 ft | 378 ft | |
| White Wolf | 02 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 45 ft | 725 ft | 384 ft | |
| White Wolf | 03 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 58 ft | 668 ft | 340 ft | |
| White Wolf | 04 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 45 ft | 720 ft | 387 ft | |
| White Wolf | 05 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 55 ft | 659 ft | 317 ft | |
| White Wolf | 06 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 55 ft | 710 ft | 362 ft | |
| White Wolf | 07 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 55 ft | 599 ft | 241 ft | |
| White Wolf | 08 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 57 ft | 668 ft | 311 ft | |
| White Wolf | 09 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 32 ft | 621 ft | 272 ft | |
| White Wolf | 10 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 32 ft | 605 ft | 266 ft | |
| White Wolf | 11 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 44 ft | 571 ft | 225 ft | |
| White Wolf | 12 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 45 ft | 591 ft | 271 ft | |
| White Wolf | 13 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 47 ft | 542 ft | 214 ft | |
| White Wolf | 14 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 51 ft | 563 ft | 272 ft | |
| White Wolf | 15 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 51 ft | 515 ft | 229 ft | |
| White Wolf | 16 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 35 ft | 583 ft | 263 ft | |
| White Wolf | 17 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 62 ft | 523 ft | 198 ft | |
| White Wolf | 18 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 35 ft | 562 ft | 254 ft | |
| White Wolf | 19 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 51 ft | 499 ft | 208 ft | |
| White Wolf | 20 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 51 ft | 518 ft | 255 ft | |
| White Wolf | 21 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 55 ft | 408 ft | 182 ft | |
| White Wolf | 22 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 60 ft | 450 ft | 244 ft | |
| White Wolf | 23 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 55 ft | 390 ft | 226 ft | |
| White Wolf | 24 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 59 ft | 277 ft | 225 ft | |
| White Wolf | 25 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 51 ft | 310 ft | 169 ft | |
| White Wolf | 26 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 52 ft | 219 ft | 224 ft | |
| White Wolf | 27 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 261 ft | 177 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 28 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 53 ft | 164 ft | 235 ft | |
| White Wolf | 29 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 40 ft | 239 ft | 162 ft | |
| White Wolf | 30 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 186 ft | 189 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 31 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 40 ft | 160 ft | 199 ft | |
| White Wolf | 32 | tent only nonelectric | 49 ft | 157 ft | 200 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 33 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 69 ft | 176 ft | 200 ft | |
| White Wolf | 34 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 97 ft | 136 ft | 213 ft | |
| White Wolf | 35 | tent only nonelectric | 89 ft | 100 ft | 250 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 36 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 82 ft | 140 ft | 225 ft | |
| White Wolf | 37 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 36 ft | 180 ft | 180 ft | |
| White Wolf | 38 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 36 ft | 165 ft | 196 ft | |
| White Wolf | 39 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 55 ft | 168 ft | 203 ft | |
| White Wolf | 40 | type not stated | 118 ft | 258 ft | |||
| White Wolf | 41 | type not stated | 145 ft | 212 ft | |||
| White Wolf | 42 | type not stated | 193 ft | 189 ft | |||
| White Wolf | 43 | type not stated | 205 ft | 202 ft | |||
| White Wolf | 44 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 19 ft | 245 ft | 195 ft | |
| White Wolf | 45 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 58 ft | 242 ft | 156 ft | |
| White Wolf | 46 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 19 ft | 258 ft | 177 ft | |
| White Wolf | 47 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 43 ft | 291 ft | 174 ft | |
| White Wolf | 48 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 57 ft | 340 ft | 125 ft | |
| White Wolf | 49 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 25 ft | 304 ft | 94 ft | |
| White Wolf | 50 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 25 ft | 317 ft | 69 ft | |
| White Wolf | 51 | type not stated | 390 ft | 53 ft | |||
| White Wolf | 52 | type not stated | 451 ft | 99 ft | |||
| White Wolf | 53 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 35 ft | 541 ft | 186 ft | |
| White Wolf | 54 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 35 ft | 515 ft | 161 ft | |
| White Wolf | 55 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 68 ft | 455 ft | 112 ft | |
| White Wolf | 56 | type not stated | 20 ft | 353 ft | 156 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 57 | type not stated | 25 ft | 428 ft | 122 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 58 | type not stated | 20 ft | 408 ft | 125 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 59 | type not stated | 20 ft | 420 ft | 91 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 60 | type not stated | 361 ft | 64 ft | |||
| White Wolf | 61 | type not stated | 20 ft | 318 ft | 77 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 62 | type not stated | 15 ft | 437 ft | 78 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 63 | type not stated | 25 ft | 450 ft | 102 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 64 | type not stated | 27 ft | yes | 392 ft | 75 ft | |
| White Wolf | 65 | type not stated | 25 ft | yes | 439 ft | 160 ft | |
| White Wolf | 66 | type not stated | 20 ft | 360 ft | 143 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 67 | type not stated | 15 ft | 429 ft | 132 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 68 | type not stated | 25 ft | 396 ft | 82 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 69 | type not stated | 20 ft | 357 ft | 118 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 70 | type not stated | 15 ft | 309 ft | 54 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 71 | type not stated | 15 ft | 291 ft | 58 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 72 | type not stated | 20 ft | 218 ft | 126 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 73 | type not stated | 15 ft | 187 ft | 193 ft | ||
| White Wolf | 74 | type not stated | 20 ft | 247 ft | 140 ft |
25 of 74 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Yosemite Creek CampgroundYosemite National Park · 4.1 mi
Bridalveil Creek Horse CampsitesYosemite National Park · 5.2 mi
Porcupine Flat CampgroundYosemite National Park · 6.2 mi
Camp 4Yosemite National Park · 9.2 mi
Tamarack Flat CampgroundYosemite National Park · 9.5 mi
North Pines CampgroundYosemite National Park · 9.9 miWhite Wolf Campground is located off the Tioga Road 24 miles west from Tioga Pass, the park’s east entrance (45 minutes). From Yosemite Valley, take the Big Oak Flat Road and Tioga Road 31 miles (approximately 1 hour). From Hwy. 120 west/Big Oak Flat Road, take the Big Oak Flat Road and Tioga Road 31 miles (35 minutes). You’ll find the campground north of the Tioga Road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Yosemite Valley, CA
Typical weather
Typical July night 36°F, day 78°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical September night 28°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
White Wolf Campground is in California’s 5th congressional district. Its representative, Tom McClintock (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…permitted when the campground is open. There is no cell phone reception, no internet connectivity, no camp store, no ice or firewood…”