About Almanor
Number of accommodations: 20
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2026 Season availability
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Water Access
- Lake Access
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Reviews (42)
What Guests Are Saying
The site offers ample space for trailers, tents, RVs, and boats, featuring a large fire pit and numerous picnic tables. While it's located near a highway and a recreation road that can cause dust issues, the overall experience was positive with well-maintained facilities, including daily trash collection. Visitors are likely to return, especially when roadwork is not ongoing.
What Guests Are Saying
The site offers ample space for trailers, tents, RVs, and boats, featuring a large fire pit and numerous picnic tables. While it's located near a highway and a recreation road that can cause dust issues, the overall experience was positive with well-maintained facilities, including daily trash collection. Visitors are likely to return, especially when roadwork is not ongoing.
Review Summary
Alexander G
VerifiedJuly 14, 2022 • Stayed at: 015, Loop: SOUT
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Kendra R
VerifiedJuly 1, 2022 • Stayed at: 005, Loop: SOUT
This campsite is really cool! The campsites are really large and spread out. Certain sites have a lot of privacy, more so than I'd expect given there are a lot of campsites here. You are an easy walk away from the lake (15-20 minutes) and have access to the Almanor Rec Trail that runs through the campsite. Nice/clean bathrooms, really pretty location.
Peter V
VerifiedJune 30, 2022 • Stayed at: 004, Loop: SOUT
Very clean bathrooms. Camp site host was very nice and helpful. Overall camp grounds were very clean.
Joe H
VerifiedJune 21, 2022 • Stayed at: 005, Loop: SOUT
Tthe camp was clean and spacious. The host was friendly and helpful he camp site was clean and spacious
Sunil D
VerifiedJune 15, 2022 • Stayed at: 006, Loop: SOUT
Everything is good. Very clean and calm & quiet. Next to the lake. I should have stayed more days.
Teresa R
VerifiedJune 13, 2022 • Stayed at: 018, Loop: SOUT
Almanor South is a beautiful campground. The sites are spacious and far enough away from other sites to offer some privacy. This campground is fairly close to the lake. While damage from the Dixie fire was evident near the campground, there was no damage in the campground. I would stay here again.
Dyllon W
VerifiedJuly 20, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: SOUT
Fire got us evacuated and no refund was given
Plus it was damn near impossible to find because the campground is called almanor that’s the entire lake so if you google it you get 5 campgrounds with the same name around the same lake and Recreation.gov has the worst app it says it has no service to direct me to any campsite whether I have wifi or call signal the app still won’t work
Julie F
VerifiedJuly 19, 2021 • Stayed at: 009, Loop: SOUT
We had a great time at this campground, our only wish is that it was close to the water. The walk is about 15-20 min depending on how much stuff you carry, the road is busy but easy to pull a wagon. The beaches are very rocky, there are only a few places where the large rocks have been moved around enough to create a seating area. The camp sites are incredibly spacious, enough that we had a bad mitten court set up! Nice not to be packed in next to campers, there are lots of meadows in between the camping sections. The dump station is very, very clean and there is fresh water accessible at the dump station to fill the fresh water tank and use for drinking. Great stay and a lovely campground.
Gary P
VerifiedJuly 5, 2021 • Stayed at: 014, Loop: SOUT
Most sites are very nice. Some are backwards and not made for trailers. Great location near Plumas Pines.
Cassandra G
VerifiedJuly 2, 2021 • Stayed at: 007, Loop: SOUT
Multiple sites had campfires going after burn permits were suspended. One campsite set off fire crackers beginning at sunset. Nice facilities but no camp host and the rangers were ineffective at enforcing fire rules despite the recent wildfires.
Location Almanor
Address:
900 East Highway 36
Chester, CA, 96020
United States
Almanor is accessible via California State Route 36, which is approximately 10 miles to the south. This state highway connects to U.S. Route 395 and other regional roads.
Latitude & Longitude: 40.2169 / -121.168
Elevation: 1371 feet
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Last updated: June 4, 2026