Lakeside (Truckee)
1Heads up1 fire 46 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 4342 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lakeside Campground is located on the picturesque Prosser Reservoir in the Tahoe National Forest, just 10 minutes north of Truckee. Visitors enjoy the area for its boating, canoeing, fishing and abundant hiking and off-road trails. This facility is operated and maintained by Lake Tahoe Hospitality LLC for the Tahoe National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
Prosser Reservoir is a popular location for canoeing, swimming and fishing. Power boating is allowed but a 10-mph speed limit is enforced. A boat ramp is located about a mile south of the campground near Prosser Ranch Group Campground. The surrounding area offers many hiking, biking, horseback riding and off-road vehicle trails. Prosser OHV staging area is approximately two miles west, across Highway 89. Access to Prosser Hill Motorcycle trail, and Prosser Hill and Sagehen Hills OHV trail system. Access to designated OHV routes from campground. Respect other campers. OHV ingress and egress only. 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 campsites. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets are provided.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the northwestern shore of the reservoir, in an open area with scattered lodgepole pine and fir trees. Some sites have limited shade, while others are in full sun. Many sites have views of the reservoir and surrounding mountains. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (530) 606-3978 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Boca Reservoir is 30 minutes east of the campground, offering additional boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing opportunities. Truckee, 10 minutes south, offers all the amenities of a year round recreational mountain town including interstate highway connectivitiy, top notch restaraunts, resorts, and hotels, grocery stores, gas stations, shopping, and historic sites. Lake Tahoe is located 30 minutes south and 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 Trial, 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 in 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 · 8
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.
Limited, low-pressure water will be available at this facility. Please plan accordingly when making a reservation.
Campsite check-out time is 12:00pm. Check-in time is 2:00pm.
6 people and 2 dogs maximum per 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
- 43
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 32 of 43 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets 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
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Swimming
- Night sky · 998th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 11 days ago, 26 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 42 of the 43 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 $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
43 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 42 mapped sitesAll 43 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. 43 of the 43 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 001 | standard nonelectric | 121 ft | 64 ft | $20 | |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 002 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 44 ft | $20 | |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 003 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 30 ft | $20 | |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 004 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 70 ft | $20 | |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 005 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 102 ft | $20 | |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 006 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 80 ft | 152 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 75 ft | 29 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 008 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 80 ft | 122 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 75 ft | 51 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 21 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 18 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 36 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 79 ft | 79 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 68 ft | 175 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 64 ft | 109 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 64 ft | 45 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 135 ft | 86 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 107 ft | 42 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 75 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 020 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 139 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 33 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 47 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 104 ft | 43 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 024 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 43 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 025 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 106 ft | 159 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 89 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 54 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 33 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 029 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 58 ft | 85 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 121 ft | 97 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 031 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 192 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 032 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 238 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 033 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 267 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 034 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 239 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 389 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 036 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 424 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 037 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 111 ft | 306 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 038 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 106 ft | 235 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 039 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 120 ft | 268 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 040 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 52 ft | 361 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 041 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 52 ft | 311 ft | $20 |
| AREA LAKESIDE (TRUCKEE) | 042 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 180 ft | 265 ft | $20 |
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | $20 |
25 of 43 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Prosser FamilyTahoe National Forest · 0.6 mi
Prosser Ranch GroupTahoe National Forest · 0.9 mi
Boca CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 3.6 mi
Alpine Meadow Campground5.1 mi
Boca Rest CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 5.2 miFrom Interstate 80 in Truckee take exit 188, Highway 89 north toward Sierraville. In approximately 3.5 miles turn right at the sign for Prosser Recreation Sites. In one mile the campground will be on the left. 13453 Old Highway 89, 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 28°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 15°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 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
Lakeside (Truckee) 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 →