Englebright Lake Boat-In Campground
1Heads up1 fire 19 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 5 of the next 5 nights read 15:34 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 51All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Englebright Lake is nestled in the steep Yuba River canyon, of the Sierra Nevada foothills. This location offers a unique boat-in camping experience, several species of sport fish, abundant wildlife, and year round water-based recreational activities for enthusiasts and families alike. Located between Grass Valley and Yuba City off State Route 20. Keep reading
Recreation
Englebright Lake is a destination fishery, providing anglers with a variety of options including small and large mouth bass, trout and Kokanee salmon. The boat-in campground has 51 sites that include a fire ring, lantern hanger, picnic table and tent pad.
Facilities
Campsites are accessed by boat only. Sites are remote with no hookups. Vault toilets are available within walking distance. Be sure to pack potable water with you before heading to your campsite. Some of the campsites are located in open, grassy areas while others are tucked into wooded areas. A marina convenience store is located on the lake and accessible by land or water.
Natural Features
Englebright Lake is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills, within a steep canyon with notable waterfalls and abundant wildlife. A mix of agricultural land and thick forest surround the lake and campgrounds.
Nearby Attractions
Narrows Day Use Area, Joe Miller Recreation Area, Bridgeport State Park and New Bullards Bar Reservoir are nearby.
Charges & Cancellations
As per Recreation.gov policy.
What the agency tells you
ALL SITES ARE BOAT-IN ONLY - A BOAT IS REQUIRED TO ACCESS CAMPSITES
PLEASE PRINT YOUR RESERVATION AND LEAVE A COPY ON THE DASHBOARD OF YOUR VEHICLES
To make a reservation by phone please call: (877) 444-6777 OR reserve on Recreation.gov.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
There are no waterborne restrooms, electricity / water / sewer site hook-ups, or water pumps at this facility. Bringing your own drinking water is highly suggested.
Check out time is 12:00 Noon. Check In time is 2:00 P.M.
Maximum of eight people per campsite including children.
2 Tents per campsite allowed.
Pets must be on a six foot or shorter leash at all times.
Fireworks are prohibited.
Purchase firewood locally or harvest it from around your campsite. Dead wood on the ground may be used for firewood- Do not cut standing dead or green trees. Do not transport firewood from home. Leave any extra locally sourced firewood for the next camper- don't take it home with you.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 51 · 51 boat-in
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…only. Sites are remote with no hookups. Vault toilets are available within walking distance. Be sure to…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “Be sure to pack potable water with you before heading to your campsite.”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Reservoir, Lake, River
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Paddle Boating
- Paddling
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Tubing
- Water access
- Water Skiing
78 of 78 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:34 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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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
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.
“As per Recreation.gov policy.” · this campground’s own terms
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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
51 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 51 mapped sitesAll 51 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. 51 of the 51 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.
| Bonanza | 11 | boat in | 89 ft | 61 ft | $20 |
| Bonanza | 12 | boat in | 79 ft | 102 ft | $20 |
| Bonanza | 13 | boat in | 79 ft | 121 ft | $20 |
| Boston Bar | 32 | boat in | 56 ft | 153 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Boston Bar | 33 | boat in | 56 ft | 180 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Boston Bar | 34 | boat in | 69 ft | 50 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Boston Bar | 35 | boat in | 69 ft | 57 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Boston Bar | 36 | boat in | 69 ft | 74 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Boston Bar | 37 | boat in | 74 ft | 83 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Boston Bar | 38 | boat in | 66 ft | 106 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Boston Bar | 39 | boat in | 66 ft | 74 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Boston Bar | 40 | boat in | 90 ft | 26 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Boston Bar | 41 | boat in | 90 ft | 29 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Bucks Beach | 48 | boat in | 56 ft | 33 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Bucks Beach | 49 | boat in | 56 ft | 29 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Bucks Beach | 50 | boat in | 111 ft | 15 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Bucks Beach | 51 | boat in | 127 ft | 81 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Hogback | 1 | boat in | 124 ft | 128 ft | $20 |
| Hogback | 10 | boat in | 87 ft | 62 ft | $20 |
| Hogback | 2 | boat in | 44 ft | 131 ft | $20 |
| Hogback | 3 | boat in | 44 ft | 123 ft | $20 |
| Hogback | 4 | boat in | 65 ft | 115 ft | $20 |
| Hogback | 5 | boat in | 53 ft | 70 ft | $20 |
| Hogback | 6 | boat in | 53 ft | 76 ft | $20 |
| Hogback | 7 | boat in | 110 ft | 62 ft | $20 |
| Hogback | 8 | boat in | 110 ft | 145 ft | $20 |
| Hogback | 9 | boat in | 87 ft | 90 ft | $20 |
| Longs Cove | 14 | boat in | 82 ft | 139 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Longs Cove | 15 | boat in | 82 ft | 75 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Longs Cove | 16 | boat in | 65 ft | 100 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Longs Cove | 17 | boat in | 65 ft | 135 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Longs Point | 18 | boat in | 140 ft | 50 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Longs Point | 19 | boat in | 114 ft | 137 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Longs Point | 20 | boat in | 91 ft | 221 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Longs Point | 21 | boat in | 87 ft | 132 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Longs Point | 22 | boat in | 87 ft | 153 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Rocky Bluff | 23 | boat in | 68 ft | 54 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Rocky Bluff | 24 | boat in | 68 ft | 50 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Shadyside | 28 | boat in | 40 ft | 112 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Shadyside | 29 | boat in | 40 ft | 95 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Shadyside | 30 | boat in | 44 ft | 77 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Shadyside | 31 | boat in | 44 ft | 37 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Singles Point | 25 | boat in | 52 ft | 112 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Singles Point | 26 | boat in | 52 ft | 60 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Singles Point | 27 | boat in | 84 ft | 125 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Upper Boston Bar | 42 | boat in | 146 ft | under 10 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Upper Boston Bar | 43 | boat in | 45 ft | 92 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Upper Boston Bar | 44 | boat in | 45 ft | 95 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Upper Boston Bar | 45 | boat in | 41 ft | 84 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Upper Boston Bar | 46 | boat in | 41 ft | 64 ftYuba River | $20 |
| Upper Boston Bar | 47 | boat in | 48 ft | 72 ftYuba River | $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.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lake Wildwood, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 38°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Englebright Lake Boat-In 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 →