Location: County: Sacramento. Nearest City: Folsom. See map 6.

Campsites, facilities: Beal's Point: There are 69 sites for tents or RVs up to 31 feet long. Picnic tables, fire grills, and piped water are provided. Flush toilets, showers, a dump station, a bike path, and horseback riding facilities are available. Camping, picnicking, and fishing areas are wheelchair accessible. There are boat rentals, moorings, a snack bar, ice, and bait and tackle available at the Folsom Lake Marina. Peninsula: There are 100 sites for tents or RVs. Picnic tables, fire grills, and piped water are provided. Flush toilets, showers, and a bike path are available. Boat rentals, moorings, a snack bar, ice, and bait and tackle are available at the Folsom Lake Marina. Negro Bar Group Camp: There are three group sites that can accommodate from 25 to 50 people each. Picnic tables, fire grills, and piped water are provided. Flush toilets, showers, and a bike path are available. There are boat rentals, moorings, a snack bar, ice, and bait and tackle available at the Folsom Lake Marina.

Reservations, fees: Beal's Point/Peninsula: Reserve by phoning 1-800-444-PARK/7275 ($7.50 reservation fee); $14-$16 per night, $1 pet fee. Open year-round. Negro Bar Ground Camp: Reserve by phoning 1-916-988-0205; $37.50-$75 per night.

Contact: Phone Folsom Lake State Recreation Area at 1-916-988-0205 or FAX 1-916-988-9062.

Folsom Lake SRA
7806 Folsom-Auburn Road
Folsom CA 95630-1797

Operating hours, seasons: Summer season: April - mid- October - 6:00 am to 9:00 pm. Winter season: mid-October-March - 7:00 am to 7:00 pm; open all year round.

Directions: Beal's Point: From Sacramento, drive east on U.S. 50 to the Folsom Boulevard exit. Turn left at the stop sign and continue on Folsom Boulevard for 3.5 miles, following the road as it curves onto Leidesdorff Street. Head east on Leidesdorff Street for one-half mile, dead-ending into Riley Street. Turn left onto Riley Street and proceed over the bridge, turning right on Folsom-Auburn Road. Head north on Folsom-Auburn Road for 3.5 miles to the park entrance on the right. Peninsula: From Placerville, drive east on U.S. 50 to the Spring Street/Highway 49 exit. Turn left (north) on Highway 49 (toward the town of Coloma), and continue 8.3 miles into the town of Pilot Hill and Rattlesnake Bar Road. Turn left on Rattlesnake Bar Road and drive nine miles to the end of the road and the park entrance. Negro Bar Group Camp: From Interstate 80 north of Sacramento, take the Douglas Boulevard exit and head east for five miles to Auburn-Folsom Road. Turn right on Auburn-Folsom Road and drive south for six miles until the road dead-ends into Greenback Lane. Turn right on Greenback Lane and merge immediately into the left lane. The park entrance is approximately two-tenths of a mile on the left.

Weather, clothing: Summers are hot and dry. Winters can be very cold. Spring and fall often are warm days and cooler evenings and nights. In summers dress lightly and winters layered clothing is recommended.

Trip notes: Folsom Lake is Sacramento's backyard vacation spot, a huge lake covering some 12,000 acres with 75 miles of shoreline, which means plenty of room for boating, waterskiing, fishing, and suntanning. The lake has a productive trout fishery in the spring, a fast-growing population of kokanee salmon, and good prospects for bass in late spring and early summer. By summer, water-skiers usually take over the lake each day by about 10 A.M.

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