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Dinkey Creek Campground
Creekside camping with swimming holes and granite slabs, 30 minutes from Shaver Lake.
Getting a site here
Popular weekends here book up soon after they open on Recreation.gov. After that, the realistic path is cancellations.
When does your date go on sale at Dinkey Creek? Find the release day →
Cancellations we've caught here
In the last 30 days, 138 booked site-nights at Dinkey Creek came back up (90 of them Friday or Saturday nights). Of the 41 that someone rebooked, at least half were gone within 979 minutes, and 0 within an hour.
Latest:
- Sat Oct 17 · Site 009 B · opened Fri 7:10 PM PT, closed
- Sat Oct 17 · Site 009 B · opened Fri 5:03 PM PT, rebooked within 121 min
- Sat Oct 17 · Site 013 B · opened Fri 9:41 AM PT, closed
- Sat Oct 17 · Site 007 B · opened Fri 12:28 AM PT, closed
- Fri Oct 16 · Site 066 F · opened Thu 11:23 PM PT, closed
- Sat Oct 17 · Site 066 F · opened Thu 11:23 PM PT, closed
From our own checks of every site here, lately about every 15 minutes for nights this month and next, less often further out. A site that opens and is rebooked between two checks isn't counted, so these are floors, and each time is a bound. Cancellations at every campground we log →
The 7am release here
Arrivals on Saturday, May 1, 2027 went on sale at 7am Pacific on Sunday, November 1. Of the 119 sites that went on sale, 119 were still open at our 7:17 AM read.
From our own reads just before 7:00 and through the morning; each time is when we looked. Every campground's release →
Dinkey Creek Campground cancellation policy
Cancel by 11:59 p.m. two days before you arrive (Wednesday night for a Friday arrival) and you lose only the $10 fee; after that you also lose the first night. That's Recreation.gov's site-wide rule, but this campground's page still carries an older copy that starts the late window at 12:01 a.m. Eastern, which is 9:01 p.m. Pacific two evenings before you arrive. Cancel by 9 p.m. Pacific to be safe.
From Dinkey Creek's Recreation.gov page, read Sep 30, 2026. How cancellations work, and how far ahead the cancelled nights are →
Set an alert for your dates and we check every site in Dinkey Creek every 30 seconds. When one opens, you get an email with a direct link to the site and night — you book it yourself, in your own Recreation.gov account.