Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Sycamore Grove Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 40.15554, -122.20211
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Sycamore Grove Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 27N03 (Fish Ladder), 280 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as bituminous surface treatment surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 27N03 (Fish Ladder), 280 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 27N03 (Fish Ladder): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
What the record says about the site — Sycamore Grove Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Sycamore Grove Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 264 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Sycamore Grove CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Sycamore Grove Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- AAir-up1 mi
- +Urgent care1 mi
- RxPharmacy1 mi
- HHardware2 mi
- EVEV fast charger2 mi
- MMechanic2 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- WWater3 mi
- ShShower18 mi
- OOutfitter22 mi
- LLaundry29 mi
- PPropane31 mi
- DDump40 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 1 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Sycamore Grove Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
264 ft
Ground slope
2.5% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.6 mi · other track
Nearest highway
~1.1 mi · Interstate 5
State
CA
Coordinates
40.15554, -122.20211
Cost
Fee · priced on the land manager's own page (recreation.gov, read 2026-09-18)
Nearby & resupply — around Sycamore Grove Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSacramento River · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townRed Bluff · ~2.4 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.6 mi · other track
- Nearest highway~1.1 mi · Interstate 5
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~3.1 mi
- FuelValero · ~1.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesValero · ~1.0 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~1.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicSaint Elizabeth Community Hospital · ~1.0 mi
- HardwareHarbor Freight Tools · ~1.5 mi
EV charging — from Sycamore Grove Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger1.5 mi straight-line W — Red Bluff, CA - S Main St - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 12 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach13 within 25 mi · 51 within 50 · 110 within 100 · 513 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS2.0 mi — GF4EVA RED BLUFF DC3, Red Bluff
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO2.0 mi — GF4EVA RED BLUFF DC3, Red Bluff
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)1.1 mi — HOSPITAL SECH EV 02, Red Bluff, CA · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 222802 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Sycamore Grove Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomSycamore Grove Camp Ground · at this camp · USFS
- Flush restroomSacramento River Discovery Center · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSycamore Grove Picnic Area · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSacramento River Boat Launch · ~0.2 mi SE · USFS
Coming out here — Sycamore Grove Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Sacramento River as a perennial river, ~0.2 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 2.5% — flat. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Rail line mapped ~0.6 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. The nearest track the atlas classes as a main line is ~0.9 mi from the pin. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Interstate 5 is mapped ~1.1 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Sycamore Grove Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Sycamore Grove Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Camp Discovery Group Campground~0.2 mi
- Black Oak Grove~19.9 mi
Who holds the land at Sycamore Grove Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Mendocino National Forest, manager on record: Forest Service (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Sycamore Grove Campground
Fee note
$16-$25 a night by site type and season per the Recreation.gov page, read 18 Sep 2026: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/234633
Reserve
https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/234633
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there) | Fee 2026-09-18: $16-$25 per night, by site type and season (Recreation.gov rates table). Source: https://www.recreation.gov/api/camps/campgrounds/234633/rates (fee_backfill, figure verified on that page).
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Sycamore Grove Campground
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Sycamore Grove Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →