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About Indian Well Campground
Number of accommodations: 1
Seasonal information
2026 Season availability
Campground Amenities
Most popular amenities
Pet friendly
Fire Pit
Water and Hygiene
- Potable Water
Cooking and Fire
- Fire Pit
Pets and Policies
- Pet friendly
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Group Site, Loop: B-Loop
Site Details
Reviews (7)
What Guests Are Saying
Indian Well Campground offers stunning views, clean facilities, and easy payment options, including credit card and Apple Pay. The campground features nice bathrooms, potable water, and a peaceful atmosphere, making it an enjoyable stay. However, some campsites are quite small, and visitors should bring their own firewood.
What Guests Are Saying
Indian Well Campground offers stunning views, clean facilities, and easy payment options, including credit card and Apple Pay. The campground features nice bathrooms, potable water, and a peaceful atmosphere, making it an enjoyable stay. However, some campsites are quite small, and visitors should bring their own firewood.
Review Summary
Tyler Murphy
November 2, 2025
Open despite the shutdown. Great views. Easy to pay with credit card. Nice bathrooms. Potable water. Easy walk to the visitor center and lots of caves on the cave loop. Very peaceful place even on a Saturday night.
Misty Harrison
October 6, 2025
Really small campsites. I have a 30 ft RV and there was only one campsite that could even accommodate it, B23. Of course the government was shut down during our stay, so the visitor center was closed. I loved that the Rangers don't bother you at all. It had beautiful sunrises and sunsets, sunny days that are breezy, night skies filled with stars and a moon so brilliant it looks like you could climb the hills and touch it.
Wendy
July 13, 2025
Wow, this place was clean! Has running water and flushing toilets. The bathrooms are even heated!! Has water spouts everywhere. First come first serve. $20 a night. They even have a fancy machine to pay with Apple Pay only at station. All campsites are spread out but some in the middle are super close to one another. Very accessible friendly! Tables are more than 100 years old!
I’d stay here again!
Update (7/2025): they’ve added bear boxes.
Brice C
VerifiedJuly 3, 2025 • Stayed at: Group Site, Loop: B-Loop
Bring your own firewood.
Brice C
VerifiedJuly 3, 2025 • Stayed at: Group Site, Loop: B-Loop
Bring your own firewood.
Jenny
October 15, 2023
Early October. Arrived Thursday night from the south…come earlier. We had to brake constantly to avoid killing dozens of little mice crossing the road 😭
Spent 2 nights camping at the Indian wells campground.
- $10/night, first come first serve! There are 2(?) sites with an elevated platform for the tent, which I chose to avoid potential night mice.
- The night sky really is amazing! Don’t even have to look up because they just surround you completely.
- Bathrooms are neat, bring soap!
- You can collect firewood in the National forest, not within the monument park area. Didn’t see anyone selling in the area.
- HELLA BUGS Jesus Christ. I stayed up from bugs slapping the tent from all sides. Fill your window wiping fluid to the max.
- Very brave deer who are willing to get close. Saw our camp neighbors shoo them off twice because they were pawing at stuff. Tidy up your camp area/table before bed.
Bud Infield
July 11, 2023
Indian Well Campground is a bargain. $10 a night camping, if you have a senior pass it's $5 a night. Camp is clean, and near the visitor center for the park.
No power available except for receptacle in restrooms. Flush toilets, no showers but water readily available by freeze free faucets with pump type handle.
Fire rings at each site with many having room to park smaller trailers or RVs. Bring firewood, as not much available anywhere. Camp host is a sweetheart, great folks all around.
Camp is nice, clean, quiet, with some, but minimal shade. We brought easy up shades and a gas bbq with us!
Amphitheater with star talks, and junior ranger program. The night sky is amazing here and it feels you can reach up and touch the stars! We even witnessed UFOs!
Lots and lots of caves to explore too!
We had an amazing stay!
Location Indian Well Campground
Address:
1 Indian Well Hqts.
Tulelake, CA, 96134
United States
Policies & Rules
General
- An entrance pass is required in the park and while staying in the campground. Lava Beds National Monument charges the following entrance fees: $25 per vehicle, $20 per motorcycle, or $15 per pedestrian/cyclist. Visitors may purchase the 4-park, Lava Beds, Whiskeytown, Lassen and Crater Lake annual pass for $55. Buy your Lava Beds National Monument pass online through Recreation.gov.
- Campsite capacity for a standard campsite at the Indian Well Campground is 8 persons per site.
- In any 30-day period, camping in Lava Beds National Monument may not exceed 14 days, either consecutively or in a combined period. Further, camping within the monument shall not exceed 30 days annually.
- Park all vehicles, trailers, motorhomes, campers, etc. within the designated parking spot of the campsite site and on pavement only. If your vehicle, trailer, motorhome, camper, etc. encroach into an adjacent parking spot of another campsite you are required to purchase that additional spot to accommodate the equipment size. You will need to buy a sperate permit for each designated campsite. You may park additional vehicles in front of the A-Loop bathrooms if available or at the Visitor Center parking lot.
- Persons are prohibited from utilizing a campsite for day use or picnicking within Indian Well Campground unless they have obtained a camping permit intended for overnight use.
- Fires are permitted only in metal fire rings within Indian Well Campground. Fires may be prohibited during periods of very high or extreme fire danger.
- Dead and down firewood can be collected on the nearby Modoc National Forest. Wood may also be collected from designated collection/disposal sites in the Monument and will be posted as available to the public and located at the campground when available.
- Pets are permitted in the campground and may be left tied to an object in an occupied campsite with owner present in Indian Well Campground (subject to a valid Camping Permit) provided they create no hazard or nuisance.
- Group Site: Only 2 vehicles are allowed to park behind the gate at the group campsite. RV's are prohibited. All other vehicles must be parked in the "A" loop overflow parking area, near the bathrooms, or at the Visitors Center. There may be parking directly across from the group campsite gate at campsite B7 for approximately 4 vehicles if occupants pay additionally for that campsite at the self-pay kiosk.
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