Non-quota -- not part of the 6-month/2-week rolling reservation system. Presumed free self-issue at trailhead or ranger station kiosk, consistent with every other 'Non Quota--Unlimited'-labeled trail on Inyo NF's own table (e.g. Kennedy Meadows South, Trail Pass, Wildrose); NOT explicitly restated for this specific trail, so treat as an inference from the pattern rather than a direct quote.
Notes
Lundy Canyon (trail code HH01) and Saddlebag Lake (HH04) are both Inyo NF-administered (HH = Hoover Wilderness) and non-quota. Both were previously mis-tagged here -- Lundy Canyon to Humboldt-Toiyabe's quota'd hoover group, Saddlebag Lake to the quota'd inyo_jmw_aaw group. The agency and quota-status facts are unlikely to have changed, but this is the oldest source in the dataset, so re-confirm before a real trip.
What this permit does NOT cover
Commercial guiding in this portion of Hoover Wilderness is restricted to Yosemite Mountain Guides; a wilderness permit does not authorise guided trips by anyone else. Relevant only to commercial parties.
Travel into neighbouring units
Same continuous-travel reciprocity into Yosemite/Ansel Adams as the general Inyo NF permit.
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.
Lee Vining Peak
Mount Conness
Mount Warren
Tioga Peak
Provenance
Source last updated
2021-06-13
We last checked
2026-07-23
Those are different claims: a source can be current and still not have been re-checked here recently.
Verification history
Checked
Verdict
Source
2026-07-23
inyo_hoover_nonquota-2026-07-23-01
new-group
New permit_group. Lundy Canyon (trail code HH01) and Saddlebag Lake (HH04) are both listed as Inyo NF-administered (not Humboldt-Toiyabe NF) and non-quota. RESOLVES an open question flagged in the 2026-07-22 hoover entry above (Lundy Canyon wasn't on Humboldt-Toiyabe's official trailhead list, and it was unclear which forest actually administers it). CORRECTS two prior mistakes: Lundy Canyon had been tagged to Humboldt-Toiyabe NF's quota'd hoover group; Saddlebag Lake had been tagged to the quota'd inyo_jmw_aaw group. Same 2021 PDF caveat as inyo_gtw above -- the agency/quota-status facts are unlikely to be stale, but treat as the least-fresh source in this dataset.