Availability
The camp-area marker lies on the agency-mapped Bunchgrass Creek Trail corridor, but Lassen National Forest does not guarantee potable water or current creek flow at this location.
Backpacking camp
Bunchgrass Creek Backcountry Area camp area
Caribou & Thousand Lakes Wildernesses, California
About this place
This marker represents legal dispersed-camping country at the mapped end of the Bunchgrass Creek route, not a designated tent pad.
Choose a durable site under Lassen wilderness setbacks, treat water, and verify snow, road, and fire conditions.
Water planning
Water at this camp
Bunchgrass Creek is seasonal · treat and carry backupDrinking safety
Filter, boil, or disinfect creek water before drinking; do not collect from stagnant stock-affected pools.
Seasonality
Carry a reserve because Bunchgrass Creek and its small tributaries can diminish late in the season or become unusable after fire and storms.
- Bunchgrass CreekRiver or stream · at the camp areaVariable source — confirm before departure · Treat before drinkingOfficial source
Fire planning
Campfire & stove rules
Permit + current order requiredCampfires
Bunchgrass Creek Backcountry Area is an undeveloped backcountry camp area in Caribou & Thousand Lakes Wildernesses. A California Campfire Permit is required for a portable stove or any otherwise-legal fire in Caribou & Thousand Lakes Wildernesses. Use a gas, jellied-petroleum, or pressurized-liquid-fuel stove with a working shutoff valve; wood, charcoal, twig stoves, and campfires are allowed only where the current forest order and destination-specific elevation or named-area rules expressly allow them. Never treat an old ring as proof that a fire is legal, and do not build a new ring where fires are prohibited.
Backpacking stoves
Shutoff-valve gas or pressurized-fuel stove with permit. Use a gas, LPG, jellied-petroleum, or pressurized-liquid-fuel stove with a working shutoff valve. Twig and wood-burning stoves follow the campfire rule and are prohibited anywhere wood fires are prohibited.
Permit
Carry a valid California Campfire Permit for a portable stove or any otherwise-legal fire; the permit never overrides a forest closure, fire-danger order, elevation limit, or named-area prohibition.
Current restrictions
Check USDA Forest Service's current alerts and the selected trailhead posting before departure. The standing rule shown here remains subordinate to a newer emergency order.
Seasonal access
Closures & seasonal access
Caribou and Thousand Lakes Wildernesses have no published annual closure windowPlace closure
No recurring date-based closure of Bunchgrass Creek Backcountry Area is published. The source-connected approach conditions below and temporary emergency orders still control access.
Seasonal access
Source-connected approach: Bunchgrass Trailhead. Caribou and Thousand Lakes Wildernesses have no published annual closure window. Winter snow, volcanic terrain, wildfire, and remote forest-road conditions can delay access well into the normal hiking season.
Before driving
Check Lassen National Forest alerts and the exact trailhead road, gate, snowpack, and fire conditions before travel.
Mapped approaches
Choose a trailhead for Bunchgrass Creek Backcountry Area camp area
Each option has a sourced trail route to this camp area. Choose one to open its itinerary builder with this destination in context.
- Bunchgrass Trailhead4.0 mi awayView trailheadBuild from here
Map
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- Latitude
- 40.659698° N
- Longitude
- 121.622025° W