Boca Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 12 mi
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 23All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 24 – October 14Open May 24 through October 14
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Boca Campground is located on a plateau above the shores of beautiful Boca Reservoir, 15 minutes northeast of Truckee, California. Visitors enjoy the area for its boating, swimming, and fishing opportunities. This facility is operated and maintained by Lake Tahoe Hospitality LLC for the Tahoe National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
Boca Reservoir is a popular location for boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing. A boat ramp is located less than a mile from the campground. The Little Truckee River is nearby and offers some of Northern California's best catch-and-release fly-fishing. The surrounding area offers hiking, biking, horseback riding and off-road vehicle trails. Boca Townsite Interpretive Trail showcases the boom and bust of the historic town of Boca as it transitioned from a construction camp for the Central Pacific Railroad to the Boca Mill and Ice Company and later to the Boca Brewery. It is located between Boca Dam and the railroad tracks.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family sites, a few of which are designated for tent camping only. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets are provided, but there is no drinking water available.
Natural Features
The campground is located on a peninsula along the western shore of Boca Reservoir. Stands of mature Jeffrey pine and fir trees provide some shaded sites in this open campground overlooking the reservoir. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (530) 606-3978 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Truckee, 15 minutes away, offers all the amenities of a year round recreational mountain town including interstate highway connectivity, top notch restaurants, resorts and hotels, grocery stores, gas stations, shopping, and historic sites. Stampede Reservoir is 12 miles north, where boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing are popular activities available. Lake Tahoe is conveniently located just 25 minutes away. Tahoe offers excellent boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and scenic driving opportunities, as well as dining, shopping and lodging options. Other recreational opportunities in the area include Donner Camp Interpretive Trail, Overland Emigrant Commemorative Trial, Stampede Reservoir Recreation Area, Prosser Pits OHV area, and numerous hiking, mountain biking, and OHV trails.
What the agency tells you
Bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in appropriate containers. Bears lockers are 48" wide x 28" deep x 35" tall. Please plan food storage containers appropriately.
No water is available at the campground. Please bring your own supply.
Click here for more information on the Tahoe National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. For current fire conditions or weather closures contact the Truckee Ranger District (530) 587-3558 (voice), (530) 587-6907 (TDD).
Don't Move Firewood: Protect California's forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. For more information visit firewood.ca.gov.
Off-Highway vehicles must be trailered to a designated route. Recreational riding is not allowed within the campground
One vehicle included with reservation. Additional vehicle fee cost is $10/each per night for all vehicles. All operable, highway legal vehicles must pay extra vehicle fee, excluding the single vehicle included with the reservation. Please pay extra vehicle fee at the self-serve fee tube located near campground entrance if not paid online.
Campsite check-out time is 12:00pm. Check-in time is 2:00pm.
6 people and 2 dogs maximum per single site. Dogs shall always be kept on leash no longer than six feet or otherwise confined. Violation notices WILL be issued for non-compliance.
Modifications for this campground must be made PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 23 · 3 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets are provided, but there is no drinking water…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…grill. Vault toilets are provided, but there is no drinking water available. Natural Features The campground is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 1030th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 2 days ago, 22 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“Additional vehicle fee cost is $10/each per night for all vehicles.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
23 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 23 mapped sitesAll 23 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 20 of the 23 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 53 ft | 310 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 263 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 82 ft | 154 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 111 ft | 125 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 111 ft | 108 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 181 ft | 115 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 73 ft | 187 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 73 ft | 223 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 94 ft | 349 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 306 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 108 ft | 252 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 123 ft | 201 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 124 ft | 310 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 125 ft | 228 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 159 ft | 125 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 020 | walk to | 154 ft | 76 ft | ||
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 021 | walk to | 154 ft | 96 ft | ||
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 022 | walk to | 162 ft | 62 ft | ||
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 125 ft | 239 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 163 ft | 255 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 279 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 247 ft | 205 ft | $20 |
| BOCA CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 117 ft | 246 ft | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Boca Rest CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 2.0 mi
Boca SpringTahoe National Forest · 2.4 mi
Prosser Ranch GroupTahoe National Forest · 3.0 mi
Boyington MillTahoe National Forest · 3.1 mi
Prosser FamilyTahoe National Forest · 3.3 miLakeside CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 3.6 miFrom Interstate 80, take Hirschdale Road exit ( exit 194) and proceed north on Hirschdale Road for one mile. Turn left onto Boca Dam Reservoir Road and proceed west for .6 miles. After the dam bear right on to Boca road for .6 miles. Boca campground in on the right. 12927 Boca Road, Truckee, CA 96161
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Truckee, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 67°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 25°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Boca Campground is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →