The Best in Tent Camping: Northern California A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos

by Huber, Jane; Mai, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780897325806
• ISBN10: 089732580X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press

Summary

From the seaside vistas of Big Basin Redwoods State Park overlooking the Pacific Ocean, to the granite cliffs and glacial lakes of the northern Sierra Nevada, The Best in Tent Camping: Northern California is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching a tent on a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the blare of another camper's boombox, or waking to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs. Whether you are a northern California native in search of new territory or a vacationer on the lookout for that dream campground, this book will help you unlock the secrets to the best tent camping that northern California has to offer.

Author Biography

Bill Mai spent his childhood summers camping with his family. A resident of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he lived in California for many years where he wrote screenplays.

Table of Contents

(1) Introduction (2) Albee Creek (3) Big Basin Redwoods State Park (4) Butano State Park (5) Castle Crags State Park (6) Dillon Creek (7) Eagle Creek (8) Elk Prairie (9) Gold Bluffs Beach (10) Idlewild (11) Jedediah Smith (12) MacKerricher State Park (13) Manchester State Beach (14) Mary Smith (15) Mill Creek (16) Nadelos and Wailaki (17) Oak Bottom on the Salmon River (18)Patrick's Point State Park (19) Russian Gulch State Park (20) Tree of Heaven (21) Van Damme State Park (22) Aspen and Merrill (23) Boulder Creek and Lone Rock (24) Crater Lake (25) Domingo Springs (26) Fowler's Camp (27) Hemlock (28) Indian Well (29) McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park (30) Mill Creek Falls and Blue Lake (31) Silver Bowl and Rocky Knoll (32) Warner Valley (33) Blue Lakes (34) Buckeye (35) Chute Hill (36) D.L. Bliss State Park (37) Grover Hot Springs State Park (38) Haskins Valley (39) Oak Hollow (40) Pine Marten (41) Sand Flat (42) Sardine Lake and Salmon Creek (43) Silver Creek (44) Silver Lake East (45) Spicer Reservoir (46) Trumbull Lake (47) Upper and Lower Highland Lakes (48) Upper Jamison (49) Woods Lake (50) Wrights Lake

Excerpts

Domingo Springs Campground is the yin of campgrounds-protected and feminine, down in the flowered and ferned shady marsh by the North Fork Feather River. Atop Lassen Volcanic National Park, you are close to major a supply source, Chester, and close to Lake Almanor for fishing, sailing, and swimming-but out of the way enough to camp in bucolic ease like a country squire.

There's good shopping at the supermarket in Chester-as well as decent cafes and restaurants right across the street. Get last-minute supplies and ease on into the campground when the shadows are long and Domingo Springs looks like a movie set, with its split-rail fences, rustic bridge, and wooded campsites.

All of the tent pitches are on soft ground, and most of them are backed into the woods. This campground is run by the University Foundation, California State University at Chico (like the other wonderful campgrounds at Eagle Lake), and it shows. Somebody has worried about how the campground looks and how it feels to camp there. Domingo Springs has an oriental-garden quality-magic.

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Excerpted from The Best in Tent Camping: Northern California, 3rd: A Guide for Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos by Bill Mai, Jane Huber
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