Lake Oroville Boat-In Camping

(keith2002) · (keith2002) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 03-25-2008, 11:12 AM

Can anyone recommend a good boat-in campground on Lake Oroville? Are camp fires allowed at the boat-in sites?

(zipe) · (zipe) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 03-25-2008, 11:19 AM

Be careful with those, a group I was with once booked one, but the water level was down pretty low and it was close to a 250 yard hike uphill from the shoreline to the site. Luckily there was a floating site no show and they switched us over.

(chilidog) · (chilidog) **Join Date: Dec 2007** 03-25-2008, 6:50 PM

I'd recommend the floating campsite, they are pretty fun with the right group!! campfires are a no on it though, fiberglass plastic and heat aren't good friends

(tinytdubb) · (tinytdubb) **Join Date: Jul 2007** 03-25-2008, 9:51 PM

Geez chilidog didn't know you were the camp fire police.....

(bben422) · (bben422) **Join Date: Sep 2007** 03-25-2008, 11:11 PM

ya the water is way down this year I would go with the floating one if you can get a reservation

(keith2002) · (keith2002) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 03-26-2008, 8:33 AM

Does anyone have any suggestions for other boat-in camping at other lakes in NorCal? We will have 3 or 4 families with kids ranging from 4 to 16. It would be great if there were sites that allowed camp fires.

(papag) · (papag) **Join Date: Nov 2005** 03-26-2008, 10:26 AM

At Don Pedro you can set up camp on just about any open piece of shoreline. There aren't much in the way of amenities, but its still fun.

I believe that fires are allowed as long as you have something to contain them in. We camped on shore there before we got our houseboat and just used a 50 gallon drum that was cut in half as a fire pit.

The good thing about shore camping at Pedro is that there are more good places to camp as the water goes down. Also, no reservations needed!