Wolverton Stock Campsites
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 13 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $40From, per site
- Sites
- 2All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Wolverton Stock campsites are centrally located in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in central California's rugged Sierra Nevada range. You are required to have stock animals to camp here. If you reserve a site and do not have stock your reservation will be cancelled with full cancellation fees. Keep reading
Recreation
Forty miles of hiking trails, including the paved Big Trees Trail, invite visitors to immerse themselves in the majesty of the ancient grove. Several additional popular hiking and wilderness trailheads are close by, including the trail to Moro Rock, a granite dome with spectacular views of the Great Western Divide and western half of the park. Tokopah Falls Trail is an easy walk along the Marble Fork of the Kaweah River, leading to an impressive 1200 ft. waterfall. Fly-fishing is also a popular activity on the Marble Fork. There are also many miles of equestrian trails through the Giant Forest and Lodgepole areas.
Facilities
Wolverton Stock campground is an equestrian campground only . It contains 2 sites. Corral, RV parking, and tent site with picnic table and bear food storage box are provided at Wolverton Stock campround. Restroom is located on farside of trailer parking lot. Pay shower and market are located nearby at Lodgepole. (showers closed for 2023)
Natural Features
Lodgepole pine, Red fir, and shrubs forest the campground, while towering groves of giant sequoias and craggy granite peaks dot the landscape. This region is characterized by warm days and cool nights in the summer and deep snow and cold days in the winter Nearby Attractions The Giant Forest which contains the majestic sequoia tree, is adjacent to the Wolverton Stock campsites. The Giant Forest Museum is located nearby.
Charges & Cancellations
Payment in full will be charged to your credit card upon completion of the reservation. A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Additional fees will apply for late cancellations All cancellations made between midnight on the day before arrival and check out time on the day after arrival are considered late cancellations and will incur a $10.00 cancellation fee and will also forfeit the first night’s use fee. Cancellations for a single night’s reservation will forfeit the entire use fee but no cancellation fee will apply.
What the agency tells you
STOCK SITE REGULATIONS: Horses or other stock animals are required to camp in these sites. If you reserve a site and do not have stock your reservation will be cancelled with full cancellation fees. - Upon Arrival check in at Lodgepole campground kiosk. - Maximum 6 people per site. - Maximum 10 stock per site. - Maximum 2 vehicles per site. Overflow parking is available at the Wolverton Trailhead. - Horse Trailers must enter the Parks through the Big Stump Entrance on Hwy 180. - Check road conditions at nps.gov/seki - All horse manure and uneated feed must be raked up and disposed of daily. - Water trough must be emptied at the end of the stay. - Users are only permitted to feed commercially processed pellets, rolled grains, fermented hay, or California or Nevada certified weed-free forage (baled or loose hay, hay cubes). - Stock may not be tied to trees. - Night limit for these campsites is 7 nights per stay and 14 nights per season. - Quiet hours are from 10 PM to 6 AM. - ACTIVE BEAR AREA day and night. Food and scented items must be securely stored.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 2 · 2 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, River
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Night sky · 618th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($40), 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.
“A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Additional fees will apply for late cancellations - All cancellations made between midnight on the day before arrival and check out time on the day after arrival are considered late cancellations and will incur a $10.00 cancellation fee and wi…” · 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 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
2 sites · the site map
All 2 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 2 of the 2 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
| Wolverton Stock | Lower Site | equestrian nonelectric | 60 ft | 1,911 ft | 2,065 ft |
| Wolverton Stock | Upper Site | equestrian nonelectric | 60 ft | 1,901 ft | 2,076 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lodgepole Campground-Sequoia and Kings Canyon National ParkSequoia National Park · 1.7 mi
Dorst Creek Campground-Sequoia and Kings Canyon National ParkSequoia National Park · 4.6 mi
Buckeye Flat CampgroundSequoia National Park · 4.8 mi
Potwisha CampgroundSequoia National Park · 5.8 mi
Stony Creek SequoiaGiant Sequoia National Monument · 6.9 mi
Upper Stony Creek CampgroundGiant Sequoia National Monument · 6.9 miVehicles over 22 feet are not advised between Potwisha Campground and the Giant Forest Museum when entering through Sequoia National Park. Vehicles over 22 feet should use the Kings Canyon National Park Entrance. Wolveton Stock Campsites are located off the Generals Highway on Wolverton Road. Wolverton Road is located between Lodgepole campground and the Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Three Rivers, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 17°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 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
Wolverton Stock Campsites is in California’s 20th congressional district. Its representative, Vince Fong (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →