Boulder Creek and Lone Rock Campgrounds - Taylorsville CA Camping

Preview: The drive into Antelope Lake through Taylorsville and Genesee is heartbreakingly bucolic. The road winds along little Beaver Creek through a Norman Rockwellian rural America. There are green pastures with cows belly deep in grass, small New England–style cottages, nearby weathered barns pushed over by the wind, willows down by the water, and tiny stores with creaking floorboards and 19th-century-style cash registers ornate as churches and as big as Yugos. You can buy ice and beer and cold cuts, and drive on, dreaming of a simpler past. Basically, everybody wants to be down on the water, so the campsites there at Lone Rock are called PLs, meaning priority lakeside sites. They cost more ($15) and can be reserved. As with most campgrounds, these sites by the lake are well used, designed for RVs (since RVers out-number tent campers three to one), and are packed in together. Still, it’s waterfront property. So to be by the lake, be sure to reserve—because there is a steady supply of fishermen and retired folks with RVs or trailers who’ll take these site.
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Duration: 156 sites for tents or RVs, 87 sites at Lone Rock
Best Time to Go: Open May through October
This travel guide comes from:
The Best In Tent Camping: Northern California Guide Book