Boca Spring
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 1817 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 24 – October 14Open May 24 through October 14
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Boca Spring Campground is located approximately one-mile east of Boca Reservoir, 20 minutes from Truckee, California. Visitors enjoy the area for its boating, swimming, fishing and abundant trail opportunities. This facility is operated and maintained by the Tahoe National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
Boca Reservoir is just a mile west of the campground. Boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing are popular activities. A boat ramp is located near Boca Campground on the southwest end of the reservoir. 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.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family sites and one group site that can accommodate up to 25 people and eight vehicles. Picnic tables, campfire rings and grills are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water.
Natural Features
The campground is located within a heavily forested stand of towering pine and fir trees. Boca Spring feeds a pretty meadow adjacent to the campground. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (530) 606-3978 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Stampede Reservoir is 9 miles north, where boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing 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. Other recreational opportunities 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. Lake Tahoe is a convenient 35 minutes away. Tahoe offers excellent boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and scenic driving opportunities, as well as dining, shopping and lodging options.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicles can only be used to enter and exit the facility. No recreational riding 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 · 5
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 $5/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
- 18 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…rings and grills are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Natural Features The campground…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Natural Features The campground is located within…”
- 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, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Night sky · 1045th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 2 days ago, 21 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 17 of the 18 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 $5/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
18 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 16 mapped sitesAll 18 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. 17 of the 18 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 SPRING | 001 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 271 ft | 440 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 002 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 512 ft | 79 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 003 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 87 ft | 250 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 004 | type not stated | 20 ft | 282 ft | ||
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 87 ft | 189 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 106 ft | 314 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 007 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 100 ft | 257 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 008 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 70 ft | 234 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 009 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 70 ft | 241 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 91 ft | 246 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 011 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 91 ft | 314 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 71 ft | 378 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 013 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 71 ft | 420 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 115 ft | 486 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 106 ft | 396 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 016 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 163 ft | 169 ft | $20 |
| AREA BOCA SPRING | 017 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $20 | ||
| AREA BOCA SPRING | GP1 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 271 ft | 555 ft | $66 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Boca Rest CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 0.5 mi
Boyington MillTahoe National Forest · 1.2 mi
Boca CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 2.4 mi
Logger CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 3.7 mi
Emigrant GroupTahoe National Forest · 3.9 mi
Prosser Ranch GroupTahoe National Forest · 5.2 miFrom Reno, take I-80 west to Hirschdale Exit. Go north approximately 3 miles then turn right and go 1 mile to the campground.
From Truckee, take I-80 east to Hirschdale exit. Turn left and travel approximately 3 miles then turn right and go 1 mile to the campground.
10031 East Boca Springs Road, Floriston, CA 96111
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 Spring 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 →