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Old 06-26-2007 | 01:39 PM
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Scott's Flat Lake in Grass Valley/ Nevada City is very nice.
Pine Trees & Shade every where, Camp sites stay clean since there's a bed of pine needles. Hot showers and bathrooms, Open fire pits allowed if you use their fire wood. Some places won't allow any fires. There is a fee I'm sure per night. Nice open lake.
Old 06-26-2007 | 02:16 PM
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Old 06-26-2007 | 02:31 PM
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Old 06-26-2007 | 02:38 PM
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Samuel P Taylor off of Sir Francis Drake, or Pt Reyes. Big Sur is great this time of year as well.



If you dont mind the heat, Henry Coe.
Old 06-26-2007 | 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by psoper
Actually I believe the fire is on the opposite side of the Desolation Wilderness, but you're probably right, in that there are going to be better places with less smoke elsewhere this week.

If you want a camp site without a reservation this time of year you'd better plan to drive a good 4-5 hours first.
You are correct, the fire is currently on the other side of desolation wilderness, but Hwy 50 is closed between Pollock Pines and Meyers due to the fire. It'd be hard to get to Loon Lake this weekend (and possibly next few weeks).

Though, you could get to Loon Lake if you really wanted to. It is a beautiful spot. I've spent a lot of time there.
Old 06-26-2007 | 04:16 PM
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Cal Trans shows 50 as being open now, but I do remember it being closed yesterday...

But that was on your side of the summit, shouldn't be a problem getting to Loon Lake via Ice house road from the west
Old 06-26-2007 | 04:22 PM
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you can also get to loon lake via georgetown.

take the wentworth springs road...
Old 06-26-2007 | 07:12 PM
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Up North:
Mekerker in mendecino is great.
Lake Almanor near Mt Lassen,
Clear Lake
Dimick up north
Benbow near clear lake
Del Norte Redwoods (one of my faves)
Jedediah Smith

Closer to Home:
Muir Woods is another great one.
Samuel P Taylor
Mt Diablo
Henry Cowell


haha i can go ON AND ON! ive spent at least 1 week of every summer camping since i was born...so yeah...theres toooo many to list...

never went to Yosemite before...and i did that last week...i was deffinately impressed...got to hike half dome too! So it all really depends on what kinda of camping you want to do...Lake? Ocean? Mts? Redwoods?? and if you want good hiking trails, repelling, or swimming, fishing etc near by.
Old 06-26-2007 | 09:19 PM
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I like undeveloped campsites and I usually go to either Bear Valley and Pinecrest Lake, though they also have some nice pay-to-camp sites if that's your thing. In fact I just got back from Pinecrest Lake a couple weeks ago, and it was beautiful there.

PS: I'd say 50-60% of all cars that I saw there were Subarus, pretty crazy.
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