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Camping, beaches, and warm waters lure visitors to Yuba Reservoir. Developed and primitive camping is available at Oasis and Painted Rocks campgrounds and at designated beach areas. Anglers may fish for northern pike, tiger muskie, walleye, yellow perch, wiper, trout and catfish year-round.
Please remember all fees apply, even if the entrance station isn’t staffed. Please use the self-pay envelope system at each entrance station upon arrival. We will only permit one vehicle per reservation.
Please remember to use the envelope self pay system upon arrival if campsites are not reserved.
Camping reservations for the North and West Beaches will now be combined to be called “North Beaches”. When making a reservation in the future for the “North Beaches” area, upon arrival you will be allowed to chose your camping area based upon space available. We will only permit one vehicle per reservation.
I don't know if we'll be back but we had fun. There was a lot of space and it felt quite solitary, which was nice, we were there on a Thursday night, so maybe it's busier on weekends. There were a lot of vault toilets, and quite a bit of space, so it seems capacity could be pretty high. There were a few drawbacks. It was incredibly windy the night we stayed there and our van and pop up trailer got very sand-blasted. The wind did die down during the day though, so we were able to have fun at the beach. There were tons of burrs in the sand so it was tricky to go barefoot on the beach without getting thorns in your feet. We drove a minivan, pulling a pop-up and had a close call where we were briefly stuck in a sand drift as we drove around looking for a campsite.
Great place for stargazing and the sand was amazing. A few of the bathrooms had no toilet paper, but they are primitive toilets so I suppose that's not a huge shock. We tried to drive our car down but couldn't because of the sand so we parked it up top and walked our camping supplies down. I think if we had shown up while it was still light out we might have been able to drive the car down, but if you're planning on coming here know you might not make it all the way to the water if you don't have an awd. Also some family decided to start the party at about 1am down from us a ways which was irritating. Other than that this was a perfect camping spot.
We go here every year! We love parking right on the beach and camping out, it usually gets pretty windy so make sure you pitch your tent well if you're in one. As well as making sure if you have any sort of canopy that it is secured well!
Sanding beach’s though you’ll want Sandals as there are sharp weeds on the beach. Wind is a constant occurrence here and your lucky if you get a calm day. There is a small area for off-road riding near by but mostly private land. The lake is refreshing but murky. Great for kids as the water stays shallow for a significant distant from the shoreline. Don’t forget to pay the rangers are active.
END OF SUMMER BOATING BLAST
There was water, stuff to make ham and cheese sandwiches, juice chips and cookies.
I played Volleyball, I went tubing 4 times, then I went kayaking, then I went tubing by myself and I fed Goldfish Crackers to the Seagulls.
