Wild Plum - Cg

California

California

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What we do know

  • Inside Tahoe National Forest

    2 managing-area boundaries mapped — agency alerts for them feed this page automatically.

    Boundary data

What's missing

  • No access route mapped

    We don't yet know which road reaches this trailhead, so we can't tell you if it's gated.

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Wild Plum - Cg

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About this campground

Wild Plum Campground is located one mile east of Sierra City on Haypress Creek off the Wild Plum Road. There are 47 campsites, piped water, vault toilets, and it is near the Kentucky Mine and Sierra County Historical Park.

Campsite info

Season
May 22
Quiet hours
10:00 PM - 6:00 AM
Vault toilets
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When to go

Typical monthly averages (not a forecast) from the Bowman Dam, CA weather station, 8.3 mi away. High / low in °F.

  1. Jan46° high29° low
  2. Feb47° high28° low
  3. Mar49° high30° low
  4. Apr55° high33° low
  5. May64° high40° low
  6. Jun73° high47° low
  7. Jul82° high54° low
  8. Aug81° high54° low
  9. Sep77° high51° low
  10. Oct66° high42° low
  11. Nov54° high34° low
  12. Dec45° high29° low

Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020

Where it is

Managed by
Forest Service

Source: USFS EDW boundaries; USGS PAD-US 4.1

Conditions

Active alerts for Tahoe National Forest as of Oct 9, 2026:

Source: USFS forest alerts

Nearby

Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)

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