Best Campgrounds near Douglas City, CA

 While the park itself is beautiful and well-maintained, I unfortunately cannot say the same about the management. A member of the office staff violated my privacy by intentionally sharing my personal information with another resident. This reckless and inappropriate behavior led to serious conflict in my life, and is a blatant violation of my civil rights. I am in the process of contacting the realty company listed as the owner/operator to formally address this issue. It is deeply concerning that someone in her position would show such disregard for confidentiality and professionalism. This individual should not be in a role that involves handling sensitive information—she has proven to be untrustworthy and lacking in integrity. Shame on her for abusing her position. I strongly advise others to proceed with caution.

Having recently set a goal of staying at all our ‘local’ lookouts, Post Creek is #2.
This is a gorgeous, and larger than expected, structure. It has a living room, restroom & bedroom. Sadly, the area was devastated by fires several years ago (August Complex 2020) But the views & privacy are breathtaking!! I drove ‘option 2’ TO the camp without any issues. (Lifted Crosstrek) Washboards were fair/moderate. Upon leaving, I tried to follow ’option 1’ FROM the camp, but got slightly off track & stayed on 24N10. (no biggie, just more dirt than pavement) The road is ‘fine’, but there are lots of tight spots due to downed trees & fire damage There is ZERO cell service (Verizon), and non-potable water. Price paid online was $60. I could NOT find the ‘swimming hole’ 😞

We had a great experience at this RV park! The bathroom facilities were very clean, the laundry room was spotless, and the pool looked freshly refinished. There’s also a nice fire pit and barbecue area on-site.

I’m pulling a 21-foot travel trailer and we had a level back-in site. Management allowed us to park our truck in the empty space right next to our camper, which was super convenient. All hookups worked perfectly.

The management team here is excellent — very accommodating. I had Amazon packages delivered to the office with no issues, and when I needed a ladder for some quick RV maintenance, they let me borrow one without hesitation.

Overall, a really well-kept, friendly park. Would absolutely stay here again.

Staying here for a few night from the coast headed inland. Quiet little campground. Pit toilets and potable water. Camp host on site & super friendly (she brought us homemade cookies upon arrival!)

Pretty shaded campground - my solar seems to be holding out to run basic things but my starlink is very spotty. There is 1-2 bars of 5G here. The campground is right off Highway 299 so it is noisy. There is creek access but it is down a steep, long trail.

Our campsite is quite spacious with fire ring and picnic table. Was busy when we got here on Sunday (1/2 full) but cleared out Monday. There is a swimming hole at Big Rock River Access just 1.4 miles down the hill. Beautiful river. Town is also 1 mile away where there is gas, coffee, grocery store, etc. it’s the big foot capital of the US! lol

Camping fee is $10 per night, cash only. They do not have the QR code to scan to pay like some do.

Overall nice spot to stay when passing through.

Wanting to re-experience Forks of the Salmon road, I picked either Idlewild or Mule Bridge as a destination. Forks of Salmon is EPIC, but not for the faint of heart. From 96 there are many single-lane, no guard rails & straight drops to the river 100s feet down. Idlewild is next to road, so went up 2 miles of gravel road to Mule Bridge. No clear ‘camping’ area, but 3 fire rings. About 9 cabins, on uphill side that are family-owned. A few USFS & CCC trucks from trail workers. Beautiful North Fork of Salmon, bubbling right next to camp. VERY little traffic & people. Pit toilet clean!! NO trash service seen. NO cell service (Verizon) A great spot & worth a return IMHO.

Douglas City Campground, a BLM area, is one of the nicest public campgrounds I’ve seen. The paved road and pads throughout the park couldn’t be more than 2-years old. The restrooms are new and nice. The shower is nice. It’s like the park had a complete makeover last year or the year before. Impressive. The pads are (mostly) level side-to-side, and easily adjustable front to back. They fit all sizes of trailers and RVs; a 40’+ pulled in this afternoon. My site, and a few others, back right up to the Trinity River. Seriously, not more than 50’ from the back of my trailer. All the sites have sun/partial to complete shade. The closest town is Weaverville, about 10-miles north. There’s water, but no hookups and no dump station. (Dump stations are scarce in this area, it seems.) No internet, spotty cell service, oddly, cell service only during daylight hous. The river is accessible from any site, some small rapids in spots, slow water in others, with occasionally deeper pools here and there. Beautiful site to see, beautiful sound to hear camping, especially when dozing off to sleep. This campground is tucked down from the road and into a fairly narrow canyon. The trees are mostly oak, madrona, fir and pine, with the occasional mountain ash. Lots of bushes (don’t know name of bushes too well), and poison oak, Himalayan blackberry, grasses, etc., relegated to the mostly sunny spots. They have bear safes (metal boxes with doors having bear-proof levers/latches) to store food. Haven’t seen any nor have I seen signs of bear. Lots of critters though: deer, lizards, flies, MOSQITOS, butterflies. I tried fishing over a couple of days, and gold panning over a couple of days, didn't have luck with either, no worries though, the site and campground made up for it. The camp host, Russ, was absolute pleasure to meet and speak with (he's a public drinking water guy like me!