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Bureau of Land Management · Public Domain · California

Mother Lode Field Office

Here, none of the campgrounds take walk-ups.

3Campgrounds
$20A night at all 3 priced
28Sites
1,040–1,080 ftElevation
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point queries at 3 of these 3 campgrounds

Where they are

3 of 3 mapped
Drawing the map
© OpenFreeMap · OpenStreetMap · Esri hillshade
Source: RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM, unified by CAMPANAC · Oct 29, 2026

The campgrounds

3 campgrounds
McCabe Flat CampgroundReservableMother Lode Field Office · CAfrom $208 walk-in sites1 pull-through site10 sites1,080 fttoiletsRailroad Flat CampgroundReservableMother Lode Field Office · CAfrom $203 walk-in sites9 sites1,040 fttoiletsWillow Placer CampgroundReservableMother Lode Field Office · CAfrom $207 walk-in sites2 hike-in sites9 sitesrigs to 20 ft1,060 fttoilets
Source: RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM, unified by CAMPANAC · Oct 29, 2026

This land

measured from the nearest campground in the unit
Roadless
Ferguson Ridge6,104 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Trumbull Peak6,164 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

Camping here is a stake in what happens to it. More Than Just Parks tracks the threats and the comment windows.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Heads up

Wildfire
Dome fire · 21 mi from the nearest campground here · 6,788 acres · 100% contained
Source: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 18, 2026

Who answers for this land

Mother Lode Field Office’s campgrounds sit in one congressional district. These members vote on the laws that decide what happens to this land.

Tom McClintock, official portrait
Tom McClintock (R)CA 5th · 3 campgrounds · grade F
Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score
Unit: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) land units
Source: campground records from RIDB, NPS, USFS EDW and BLM, unified by CAMPANAC, refreshed nightly