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Destinations / Lake Tahoe
Fallen Leaf Campground
Between Fallen Leaf Lake and Lake Tahoe's south shore, minutes from Emerald Bay.
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 Fallen Leaf? Find the release day →
Cancellations we've caught here
In the last 30 days, 479 booked site-nights at Fallen Leaf came back up (204 of them Friday or Saturday nights). Of the 398 that someone rebooked, at least half were gone within 264 minutes, and 71 within an hour.
Latest:
- Mon Oct 12 · Site 146 · opened Mon 2:55 PM PT, open until the night arrived
- Mon Oct 12 · Site 177 · opened Mon 11:27 AM PT, open until the night arrived
- Mon Oct 12 · Site 179A · opened Mon 11:27 AM PT, open until the night arrived
- Sun Oct 11 · Site 001 · opened Sun 7:34 PM PT, open until the night arrived
- Sun Oct 11 · Site 110 · opened Sun 6:33 PM PT, open until the night arrived
- Mon Oct 12 · Site 110 · opened Sun 6:33 PM PT, open until the night arrived
From our own checks of every site here, lately about every 20 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 →
Fallen Leaf 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 Fallen Leaf'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 Fallen Leaf 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.