Medicine Lake Recreation Area in CA -- Campground & RV Camping

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Medicine Lake Recreation Area in CA

CampgroundUSFS

41 mi from Lake Shastina

Maps 6,792 ft

Official campground & reservations ↗

530-667-2246 OR 530-667-8659

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T-MobileNONE
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Road Access

Easy
  • Road difficulty 1 of 5: an easy drive in.
  • Recorded as maintained for passenger cars, paved, pitching to 8%, 10% of it on a shelf.

Rig fit

  • Maximum published vehicle length: 75 ft.
  • Longest published RV site: 75 ft.
  • Longest published trailer site: 75 ft.
  • Longest published fifth-wheel site: 34 ft.
  • Longest published camper-van site: 20 ft.
  • Driveway grade: slight.
Drinking waterVault toilets

Campground details

75 sitesFires allowed

Setting

Little privacy

Set at 6,770 feet in Modoc National Forest, Medicine Lake Recreation Area is nestled along Medicine Lake under lodgepole pines. The complex features 86 campsites spread across five campgrounds: Medicine, A.H. Hogue, Hemlock, Headquarters, and Schonchin Springs. Sites include picnic tables, fire rings, and grills, with vault toilets, water hydrants (except at Schonchin Springs), and dumpsters available. On-site features include a concrete boat ramp, dock, picnic area, swimming beach, and trails up Little Mt. Hoffman and to the Medicine Lake Lava Flow. Lava Beds National Monument is a 30-minute drive away.

Getting there: From McCloud go east on US Hwy 89 south for 16 miles to Forest Service Road 15/Harris Spring Rd. Turn left on Road 15 and go 4.4 miles to Forest Service Road 49/Medicine Lake Road. Follow the signs 27.5 miles to Medicine Lake. From Tulelake take US Hwy 139 south for 21 miles to Forest Service Road 97. Turn right on Road 97 and go 24 miles turning right on Road 49. Drive 2 more miles turning left into the entrance of Medicine Lake Recreation Area. Follow the signs to your final campground destination.

  • Little separation from through roads or other sites here, a 75-site campground with the nearest through road 0.1 miles off.
  • Medicine Lake lies 0.1 mi off.
  • Most of them shaded.
  • Mount Hoffman stands 1,105 ft above the map pin, 2.4 miles northeast.

Rules

  • Current fire orders

Climate averages

October normals 32–57°F, 2.4″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.

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Starlink Radar

Open sky · Terrain & buildings · Tree canopy

Estimated horizon in eight compass directions, using 10 m USGS elevation. Sky clearance 93 of 100.

Tree cover25%30m sat. est.
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