​Statewide National Forest Fire Restrictions Extended; Tahoe National Forest Continues Dispersed Camping and Target Shooting Prohibitions

Nevada City, Calif. –  The USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region has extended statewide fire restrictions in California through October 30, 2020. These extended fire restrictions prohibit the following activities across all National Forests in California:
No Smoking
No building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire.

• The use of a portable lantern or stove using gas, jellied petroleum, or pressurized liquid fuel within a Developed Recreation Site (such as an official campground) is allowed.
• Generators are allowed for use within staging areas, developed recreation sites, and within open campgrounds.

In a separate Forest Closure Order, the Tahoe National Forest continues to prohibit dispersed camping and target shooting. Popular activities such as hunting, hiking, boating, and other types of general recreation are allowed. The dispersed camping and target shooting prohibitions continue through October 31, 2020 and include:
No camping outside of developed campgrounds. A list of open, developed campgrounds is provided below. There are two exceptions to this prohibition-

• Dispersed camping within the Granite Chief Wilderness is allowed. Dispersed camping within 500 feet of the Pacific Crest Trail is allowed.

No target shooting. Discharging a firearm, except while engaged in a lawful hunt pursuant to state, and federal law and regulations, is prohibited.
 
Open Campgrounds:
Foresthill Divide Road

• Giant Gap

• Shirttail

​Gold Lake Road

• Packsaddle

• Salmon Creek

• Sardine

Mosquito Ridge Road

• French Meadows (Water systems limited; campers are asked to conserve water)
• Ahart

Interstate 80

• Indian Springs

• North Fork (Reopens 9/25)

Highway 49

• Fiddle Creek

• Indian Valley

• Wild plum

• Union Flat

• Rocky Rest

• Cal Ida

• Carlton Flat

 

Highway 20

• White Cloud (some sites closed due to hazard trees)

• Skillman

Highway 89, North 

• East Meadow (operated by NID)

• Upper Little Truckee

 

• Lower Little Truckee

 

• Pass Creek (operated by NID)

• Pass Creek Overflow

• Bear Valley

• Little Laiser

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For more information about the Tahoe National Forest, go to www.fs.usda.gov/tahoe. Join the conversation by following us on Twitter at twitter.com/Tahoe_NF and Facebook atwww.facebook.com/TahoeNF.
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