Boca Rest Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 39All 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 Rest Campground is located along the shores of Boca Reservoir, 20 minutes from Truckee, California. Visitors enjoy the area for its boating, swimming, fishing and abundant hiking opportunities. This facility is operated and maintained by Lake Tahoe Hospitality LLC for the Tahoe National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
Boca Reservoir spans over 900 acres and is a popular location for boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing. A boat ramp is located on the west shore of Boca Reservoir, and an unimproved boat launching area is due south of 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. PLEASE HELP KEEP YOUR PUBLIC LANDS HEALTHY, PRODUCTIVE, AND BEAUTIFUL Off-Highway Vehicle enthusiasts have been utilizing the Tahoe National Forest in uncharacteristically high numbers. Unfortunately, resource damage is occurring. Pease remember the following: Not all closed routes are blocked with gates or posted with ‘closed’ signs. Please consult the Motor Vehicle Use map to learn more about seasonal operation dates. Do not operate Motorized Vehicles outside of established routes. The reckless riding of a few can cause resource damage that lasts for years and leads to further restrictions for all riders.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family sites, with a few located right along the waterfront. Most sites are fairly exposed with little to no shade, but are well-spaced, providing for plenty of separation between sites. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the northeastern shores of the Boca Reservoir, near where the reservoir meets the Little Truckee River. The campground is characterized by open areas dotted with sagebrush. A few pines are scattered throughout the site but shade is very limited. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (530) 606-3978 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Stampede Reservoir is located 9 miles north of the campground, where boating, water skiing, fishing, and swimming are popular activities. Truckee, 20 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. Lake Tahoe is conveniently located only 30 minutes away. Tahoe offers excellent boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and scenic driving opportunities, as well as dining, shopping and lodging options. Other recreational opportunities include Donner Camp Interpretive Trail, Overland Emigrant Commemorative Trail, Stampede Reservoir Recreation Area, Prosser Pits OHV area, and numerous hiking, mountain biking, and OHV trails.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicles can only be used to enter and exit the facility. Recreational riding is not allowed within the campground
Click here for more information on the Tahoe National Forest
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).
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Watercraft may not be launched from the campground shoreline. Use designated day use areas outside of the campground to launch watercraft, including boat launch on the other side of the lake from the campground.
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. Firewood available from the campground host (subject to availability).
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.
Maximum 1 RV per site.
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
- 39
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and campfire ring. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. 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
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 1046th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 3 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 · 13
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
39 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 39 mapped sitesAll 39 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. 39 of the 39 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA BOCA REST | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 53 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 002 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 56 ft | 54 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 003 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 56 ft | 56 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 46 ft | 45 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 005 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 46 ft | 44 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 006 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 77 ft | 42 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 007 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 66 ft | 52 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 008 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 66 ft | 61 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 009 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 72 ft | 61 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 010 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 72 ft | 66 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 011 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 80 ft | 137 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 175 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 183 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 108 ft | 101 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 222 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 227 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 98 ft | 305 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 018 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 80 ft | 218 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 85 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 020 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 65 ft | 41 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 021 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 65 ft | 20 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 022 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 65 ft | 23 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 023 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 119 ft | 96 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 149 ft | 80 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 58 ft | 36 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 026 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 43 ft | 36 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 027 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 43 ft | 68 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 028 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 75 ft | 51 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 88 ft | 65 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 030 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 51 ft | 74 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 031 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 51 ft | 60 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 032 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 73 ft | 84 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 033 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 48 ft | 128 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 48 ft | 170 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 035 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 73 ft | 115 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 036 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 187 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 037 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 64 ft | 210 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 038 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 66 ft | 148 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
| AREA BOCA REST | 039 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 132 ft | 206 ftBoca Reservoir | $20 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 39 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Boca SpringTahoe National Forest · 0.5 mi
Boyington MillTahoe National Forest · 1.3 mi
Boca CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 2.0 mi
Logger CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 3.7 mi
Emigrant GroupTahoe National Forest · 3.9 mi
Prosser Ranch GroupTahoe National Forest · 4.7 miFrom Reno, take I-80 west to the Hirschdale Exit. Drive north on Hirschdale Road approximately 3 miles to the campground.
From Truckee, take I-80 west 10 miles to the Hirschdale Exit. Drive north on Hirschdale Road approximately 3 miles to the campground.
13036 Stampede Meadows 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 Rest 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 →