Green Creek Campground
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest - Bridgeport Ranger District

Green Creek Campground is located in the Sierra Nevada Range approximately 15 miles south of Bridgeport, California.  Access to the Camp is via US 395 and the dirt Green Creek Road.  The road is passable to normal clearance 2WD vehicles when obvious care is taken (except during wet conditions).  You will pass nearly a dozen primitive sites in Green Creek Canyon on the way up to the campground.

Green Creek camp is most often used as overflow from the Twin Lakes/Virginia Lakes recreation areas and for those setting off for a backpacking adventure on the Green Creek Trail.  The camp is set up in two small loops in a dense jeffrey/ponderosa pine and aspen forest, set along the lovely Green Creek.  There is also a big group camp, a little downstream (this is reservable).

Sites are quite private, with lots of shade, pretty clean and just plain attractive.  The best ones are near the creek.  Facilities are basic but functional.  It's quite amazing how popular the camp is given how remote it is...long dirt roads usually keep people away.  Since it is likely you will have company, it is good that there is a lot of ground vegetation separating the sites.

Hiking up Green Creek Canyon into the Hoover Wilderness (or even into Yosemite for the very hearty) is a long and beautiful hike.  It is possible to set up a shuttle and do a one-way hike over to Virginia Lakes (approx. 7 or 8 miles).  Fishing is possible on Green Creek.  Reviewed 08/2005.