Lakeshore East
1Heads up1 fire 48 mi away
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $30–$60Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2825 on recreation.gov
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lakeshore East sits along the shore of the Sacramento Arm of Shasta Lake. The facility is partially shaded by oak and pine and provides some privacy between sites with an undergrowth of grass and raspberry bushes. Lakeshore East is easily accessible from I-5 and offers direct access to the lake from a number of sites. Walk-ins are accepted year-round. Keep reading
Recreation
Both the Antlers and Sugar Loaf public boat ramps are nearby. Antlers is approximately 2 miles from the campground. Power and non-motorized boating, fishing and waterskiing are all popular pastimes. Visitors may be able to informally moor their boats at the campground. Anglers can fish for trout, catfish, Chinook salmon, crappie, bluegill, white sturgeon, brown bullhead and bass.
Facilities
Each site has a picnic table, raised fire ring and paved parking spur. Two yurts, which are sturdy, weather-proof shelters, are available for rent year-round. The campground has sites that can accommodate tents as well as trailers, although there are no electrical hookups or dump stations for trailers. Standard single sites can accommodate up to 8 people and an unlimited number of tents; double sites can accommodate up to 16 people and an unlimited number of tents. Drinking water and flush toilets are provided, including flush toilets that meet current accessibility standards.
Natural Features
Shasta-Trinity is the largest national forest in California with a diverse landscape encompassing five wilderness areas, hundreds of mountain lakes and 6,278 miles of streams and rivers. Lake Shasta sits at an elevation of 1,067 feet, with 365 miles of shoreline punctuated by steep mountains blanketed in manzanita and evergreens. A snow-capped Mount Shasta, the second-tallest mountain in the Cascade Range, looms in the distance.
Nearby Attractions
Lake Shasta Caverns are located on the McCloud Arm of Shasta Lake in an area known as the Grey Rocks. Tours are given daily at this privately owned facility.
What the agency tells you
Public boat launch requires a daily fee of $17.
Average maximum trailer size is 30 feet
Bears frequent the area; Keep food in bear-proof containers
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Poison oak is abundant in the area
Click here for more information on this campground
Click here to learn more about the Shasta-Trinity National Forest
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.
Extra Vehicle fee of $12 per night
Yurts: Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out 12 P.M.
Campsites: Check-in time 3 P.M. and Check-out 2 P.M.
Dogs are not allowed inside the Yurts, but can be outside in a tent/kennel.
Yurts are weatherproof shelters with furniture inside the unit. The site includes a picnic table and fire ring located outside the unit. There are no sources of heat or electricity located inside the unit. Linens are not provided. You can set up a tent along side of the yurt within your site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 28 · 2 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- 24 of 28
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed at 25 of 27 sites
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…number of tents. Drinking water and flush toilets are provided, including flush toilets that meet…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…people and an unlimited number of tents. Drinking water and flush toilets are provided, including flush…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Water sports
- Night sky · 638th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 3
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 14:51 UTC
recreation.gov lists 25 of the 28 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 · 28
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicle fee of $12 per night” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$60 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
recreation.gov availability, read 14:51 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
33 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 25 mapped sitesAll 33 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 25 of the 33 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 28 of the 33 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.
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 002 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 197 ft | 75 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 003 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 197 ft | 75 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 004 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 210 ft | 33 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 22 ft | 240 ft | 130 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 168 ft | 53 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 210 ft | 33 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 210 ft | 33 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 009 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 6 ft | 204 ft | 103 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 010 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 7 ft | 224 ft | 112 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 13 ft | 244 ft | 110 ft | $30–$60 |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 012 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 15 ft | 153 ft | 108 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 16 ft | 160 ft | 117 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 36 ft | 176 ft | 28 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 015 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 7 ft | 224 ft | 104 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 016 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 6 ft | 210 ft | 105 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 32 ft | 145 ft | 88 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 018 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 7 ft | 231 ft | 105 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 019 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 168 ft | 53 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 021 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 210 ft | 33 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 022 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 12 ft | 187 ft | 83 ft | $100 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 023 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 210 ft | 33 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 15 ft | 168 ft | 101 ft | $30–$60 | |
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 210 ft | 33 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | 026 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 197 ft | 75 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | Scan and Pay Double | type not stated | $30–$100 | |||||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | Scan and Pay Single | type not stated | 45 ft | $30–$100 | ||||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | Scan and Pay Yurt | type not stated | $30–$100 | |||||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | XXX1 | unnamed record | $30–$100 | |||||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | XXX2 | unnamed record | $30–$100 | |||||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | XXX3 | unnamed record | $30–$100 | |||||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | XXX4 | unnamed record | $30–$100 | |||||
| AREA LAKESHORE EAST | XXX5 | unnamed record | $30–$100 | |||||
| YURT | 020 | shelter nonelectric | 45 ft | 210 ft | 33 ft | $100 |
The agency files 5 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 33 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Antlers (Shasta Lake, CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.2 mi
Gregory Beach Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.3 miAntlers CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.4 mi
Gregory Creek Group CampgroundWhiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.5 mi
Beehive Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 1.8 mi
Salt Creek Dispersed Area (CA)Whiskeytown Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area · 2.7 miFrom Redding, California, remain on I-5 north to the town of Lakehead (Approx. 20 minutes north of Redding). Take the Antlers Road/Lakeshore Drive exit. Go west under I-5 overpass, then left on Lakeshore drive approximately 2.5 miles to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lakehead, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 55°F, day 78°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°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
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
Lakeshore East is in California’s 1st congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
Our roster still carries Doug LaMalfa for this district and the current federal record doesn’t list them as sitting, so we’re not naming a representative here until the two agree.