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GeneralEXTRA VEHICLE FEES: One vehicle is included in your reservation. Any additional vehicles will be charged $10.00 per vehicle, per night and will be collected by the camp host.
About Sherwin Creek
Number of accommodations: 85
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Reviews (304)
What Guests Are Saying
Sherwin Creek campground offers spacious and well-maintained sites, with friendly and helpful camp hosts who enhance the camping experience. The location is praised for its beautiful surroundings, proximity to town, and access to trails and fishing areas. While there are some concerns regarding restroom conditions and occasional bear activity, the overall sentiment is positive, with many campers eager to return.
What Guests Are Saying
Sherwin Creek campground offers spacious and well-maintained sites, with friendly and helpful camp hosts who enhance the camping experience. The location is praised for its beautiful surroundings, proximity to town, and access to trails and fishing areas. While there are some concerns regarding restroom conditions and occasional bear activity, the overall sentiment is positive, with many campers eager to return.
Review Summary
luz q
VerifiedAugust 21, 2024 • Stayed at: 008, Loop: WALK
Enjoyed our stay at Sherwin Creek! The walk in sites are enjoyable along the creek side with lots of trees and beautiful scenery. The campground host Debbie and her husband are really nice and helpful. They do a great job keeping the bathrooms as clean as possible, considering they are pit toilets. Would recommend camping here if your destination is Mammoth! Its far enough away from people, but also relatively close to the city, so provides flexibility for grabbing a bag of ice in town!
luz q
VerifiedAugust 21, 2024 • Stayed at: 009, Loop: WALK
Enjoyed our stay at Sherwin Creek! The walk in sites are enjoyable along the creek side with lots of trees and beautiful scenery. The campground host Debbie is really nice and helpful. They do a great job keeping the bathrooms as clean as possible, considering they are pit toilets. Would recommend camping here if your destination is Mammoth! Its far enough away from people, but also relatively close to the city, so provides flexibility for grabbing a bag of ice in town!
Francisco C
VerifiedAugust 15, 2024 • Stayed at: 083, Loop: SHER
Our family has been staying at Sherwin Creek Campground for the last couple years. We love the spacious camp sites!
LORI W
VerifiedAugust 9, 2024 • Stayed at: 051, Loop: SHER
The only reason I didn’t give 5 stars is due to the fact that a water spicket that was listed on the campground map, was non functional. All the others in camp worked. This meant we had to lug water jugs during our two week stay. Only other issue were the electric bikes (kids) tearing up the forest. They created their own trails and made ramps. There needs to be some written laws in place concerning the forest destruction.
On the plus side, our camp hosts Mike & patty were awesome, hope they come back next year!!
diana g
VerifiedAugust 8, 2024 • Stayed at: 041, Loop: SHER
Large space. Clean site. Bathrooms were clean. Have stayed at this campground before and will continue to do so.
Dishawn S
VerifiedAugust 6, 2024 • Stayed at: 037, Loop: SHER
Had a wonderful four days stay at Sherwin Creek. I would recommend that you visit this campsite at least once.
Greg O
VerifiedAugust 6, 2024 • Stayed at: 079, Loop: SHER
Running creek, big shady trees, and large campsites!
David S
VerifiedAugust 4, 2024 • Stayed at: 020, Loop: SHER
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Judy L
VerifiedJuly 22, 2024 • Stayed at: 027, Loop: SHER
Great camp grounds and helpful staff on site! This was a great pit stop car camp place for us as we were visiting the area. Relatively close to a lot of the attractions in the area and easy to get to.
Jason C
VerifiedJuly 22, 2024 • Stayed at: 058, Loop: SHER
My family and I stayed at Sherwin Creek from July 8-15; it was a great experience. While traveling to the campground on July 8th, we received a text from Deborah (a campground host) about our expected arrival time, which was interesting as we had never been texted years prior. It turns out she texts campers on their arrival day to ensure they will be occupying their site for their reservation period, and if not, she puts the site up as "available" for other campers to occupy. What a great idea! Deborah even gave out her phone number so you could text her about any issues you had during your stay.
The campground and sites, as well as the restrooms, were spotless. All the hosts were super friendly. We were in Mike and Patty's area; they were constantly checking in on the campers and the grounds and giving updates on bear activity.
My family has been camping at Sherwin Creek for 25 years, some years better than others. Obviously, these hosts go out of their way to promote a pleasant camping experience.
Location Sherwin Creek
Address:
Mammoth Lakes, CA, 93546
United States
Take U.S. Highway 395 to State Highway 203 to Mammoth Lakes. Take a left at the first traffic light in town onto Old Mammoth Road. Drive south 0.9 miles to Sherwin Creek Road. Turn left and proceed 1.5 miles to the campground.
Sherwin Creek is accessible via US Highway 395, which is approximately 13 miles to the east. From US 395, drivers can reach Mammoth Lakes and the campground via State Route 203.
Latitude & Longitude: 37.6289 / -118.938
Elevation: 2314 feet
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check out time
12PM
General
- Access is via 1.5 miles on a two-lane gravel road
- Campground usually not clear of snow until late May or early June
- Campers bringing off-road vehicles must see the campground host regarding rules
- This is a high elevation facility; please use caution when traveling from lower elevations
- Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating; always keep a clean camp and do not feed any wild animals
- No electric hookups and no showers
- Only 2 pets per site allowed.
- Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. For current fire conditions or weather closures contact the Mammoth Lakes Visitor Center, (760) 924-5500, or the Mono Lakes Visitor Center, (760) 647-3044.
- Please Note: One RV with tow per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Some sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. In accordance with standard industry practices, Inyo Recreation will assess an additional $10.00 extra vehicle fee per day for the second vehicle in each single family campsite, and on the third and fourth vehicle in any double family campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site. In the case of motorcycles, the first two are considered one vehicle, and the third and fourth motorcycle are also considered one vehicle. No additional vehicle fees are collected for bicycles.
- Reserved Sites will be held until the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of the second day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Please call the office at 760-934-5795 if you need to inform the campground of an arrival time greater than 24 hours after your arrival date, or if you will not use your reservation whatsoever.
- Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
- Don't Move Firewood: Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
- Click here for more information about the Inyo National Forest
- PASS DISCOUNTS: You must provide your pass and photo identification upon check in. If you received a pass discount for which you were not eligible, you must pay the difference in price upon arrival.
Warnings & Advisories
Warning
GeneralEXTRA VEHICLE FEES: One vehicle is included in your reservation. Any additional vehicles will be charged $10.00 per vehicle, per night and will be collected by the camp host.
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Last updated: June 4, 2026
