Woodcamp Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 13 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Woodcamp Campground is located on the scenic Jackson Meadow Reservoir, in the Tahoe National Forest. Its location, part of the Woodcamp Recreation Area, provides a great base camp for a wide range of recreational activities, including boating, fishing, hiking. Woodcamp Campground is operated by Nevada Irrigation District in cooperation with the Tahoe National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
Jackson Meadow Reservoir offers excellent opportunities for boating, canoeing, water skiing, swimming and fishing. Anglers will find rainbow and brown trout. A boat ramp and designated swim beach are located within the recreation area. A half-mile interpretive nature trail wanders through the campground. A portion of the Pacific Crest Trail meanders along the east side of the lake. Hunting and biking are popular activities in the surrounding area.
Facilities
The campground offers several single-family campsites, each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Flush and vault toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
Jackson Meadow Reservoir is situated in a rolling forested valley, where visitors are awarded beautiful views of the Sierra Crest and English Mountain. The campground lies on the western shore in a forest of pine and fir trees. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 994-3401.
Nearby Attractions
Grouse Ridge Non-Motorized area, Bowman corridor lakes, camping, and hiking. PCT access on the east side of the lake.
What the agency tells you
One vehicle included with reservation. Additional vehicle fee cost is $5/each per night for all vehicles. All operable, highway legal vehicles must pay extra vehicle fee, excluding the single vehicle included with the reservation. Please make payment at fee tube located near the campground entrance if not paid online.
Bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in approved containers.
Utility hookups, showers, telephones and cell phone service are not available.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground.
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. For current fire conditions or weather closures contact the Sierraville Ranger District (530) 994-3401 (voice), (530) 994-3521 (TDD).
Click here for more information on the Tahoe National Forest.
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.
Please follow directions to the campground as listed; do not rely on your GPS.
Campsite check-out time is 12:00pm. Check-in time is 2:00pm.
6 people and 2 dogs maximum per site. Dogs shall always be kept on leash no longer than six feet or otherwise confined. Violation notices WILL be issued for non-compliance.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 42 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and campfire ring. Flush and vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…ring. Flush and vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features Jackson Meadow…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Beach, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 599th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
“Additional vehicle fee cost is $5/each per night for all vehicles.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 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.
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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 20 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 20 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 68 ft | 418 ft | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 68 ft | 445 ft | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 550 ft | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 57 ft | 593 ft | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 58 ft | 607 ft | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 57 ft | 646 ft | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 71 ft | 609 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 76 ft | 575 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 89 ft | 506 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 50 ft | 394 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 50 ft | 344 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 79 ft | 306 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 97 ft | 443 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 491 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 89 ft | 587 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 46 ft | 672 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 46 ft | 701 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 63 ft | 767 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 63 ft | 805 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
| AREA WOODCAMP CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 120 ft | 737 ftWoodcamp Creek | $24 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Fir Top CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 0.1 mi
Findley CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 0.3 mi
East Meadow CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 1.3 mi
Pass Creek CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 1.5 mi
Little Lasier Meadows CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 1.8 miJackson Creek CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 3.4 miFrom Interstate 80, exit onto Highway 89 in Truckee. Follow Highway 89 north for 17 miles to the Jackson Meadows turnoff. Travel west for 18 miles, to Jackson Meadows Reservoir. Cross over the dam and continue to the junction. Turn left and continue to the Woodcamp Recreation Area.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sierra City, 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
Woodcamp 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 →