NOT independently confirmed for this specific forest/wilderness combination -- inferred from the general USFS non-quota-wilderness pattern (matching inyo_hoover_nonquota, gtw_free, mokelumne_free, stanislaus_free) plus the Stanislaus NF permit page's cross-reference. Contact the Humboldt-Toiyabe NF Carson Ranger District directly before relying on this.
Notes
LOWER CONFIDENCE THAN THE OTHER GROUPS. Stanislaus NF's own wilderness-permits page states that Ebbetts Pass is within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest boundary and directs visitors there for a long-distance permit from that trailhead. This row is built from that cross-reference plus the general non-quota-wilderness pattern, NOT from Humboldt-Toiyabe's own site -- check against fs.usda.gov/r04/humboldt-toiyabe before relying on it.
Rules in force
What applies once you hold the permit. Rules marked with a scope other than "this permit" are inherited — state law or an agency-wide policy — and are stored once rather than restated per permit.
Fire
A free California Campfire Permit is required before you may have a campfire, camp stove, lantern or barbeque -- but holding one does NOT mean fires are allowed where you're going. Local restrictions override it. Two different permits exist; for everywhere this project covers, take the one for federal- and state-controlled lands, not the private-lands one. CA state law
TWO PERMIT TYPES, and the wrong one is not a valid document. CAL FIRE issues one permit for federal- and state-controlled lands, covering campfires, barbeques and portable stoves, and a separate one for private lands, which additionally requires written permission from the landowner. Both carry the same caveat that local burn restrictions may apply. Every trailhead in this project sits on federal land -- national forest, national park, BLM, or the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit -- except two on East Bay Regional Park District land (Del Valle and Stanford Ave), which is a special district fitting neither category cleanly; which permit applies there is not confirmed. The same portal also issues permits for burning debris, which is a different product and not what a backcountry traveller needs. THE PERMIT IS A PRECONDITION, NOT AN AUTHORISATION: CAL FIRE's own guidance says to check local rules, since many areas restrict or ban campfires outright, especially at elevation or in high fire danger. Where a wilderness bans fires, the permit still matters for a camp stove. YOU MUST CARRY IT: Eldorado NF states the permit has to be available for rangers and other officials to check while you are camping, so an unproduced permit is a permit you do not have. The lantern question is settled: CAL FIRE's permits FAQ omits lanterns from its enumeration, but the campfire-safety page and Eldorado NF's own FAQ both include them, so the fuller list stands on two sources against one summary. The issuing forest states it is also required in some developed campgrounds -- being in a campground is not a reliable exemption. Free, valid for a full calendar year (January 1 to December 31), and available from CAL FIRE, US Forest Service or BLM offices as well as online. The signer must be 18 or older, so a group of minors cannot self-issue. Obtain it at readyforwildfire.org/permits, which links to the portal at permit.preventwildfiresca.org. NOTE: Eldorado NF's own camping page cites 'www.preventwildfiresca.org', which does not resolve -- readyforwildfire.org is the working entry point. · 36 CFR 261.52(k); PRC 4433 · source
Assigned by straight-line proximity, not by a verified approach. Permits attach to where you enter the wilderness, so a peak listed here may well be climbed from somewhere else -- and a long point-to-point route may pass peaks that list a different trailhead entirely. Treat this as a starting point, not an approach list.
Ebbetts Peak
Highland Peak
Raymond Peak @
Reynolds Peak @
Provenance
Verification history
Checked
Verdict
Source
2026-07-23
toiyabe_free-2026-07-23-01
new-group
New permit_group, NOT independently confirmed from Humboldt-Toiyabe NF's own site -- built from (a) the Stanislaus NF page's explicit statement that Ebbetts Pass is Humboldt-Toiyabe NF jurisdiction and (b) the general non-quota-wilderness pattern already confirmed for every other free/self-issue group in this dataset (inyo_hoover_nonquota, gtw_free, mokelumne_free, stanislaus_free). This is the lowest-confidence row in the dataset by design -- flagged as such in its own notes field. Should be checked directly against fs.usda.gov/r04/humboldt-toiyabe (or by phone) before relying on it, same as any other unverified row.