Boat-in Sites (Lake Sonoma)

Camping mid-week during spring when the water level is high is a beautiful time to explore Lake Sonoma. Fishing was surprisingly slow but they're in there! Lots of bird life to observe; turkeys, ducks, geese, wood peckers, cormorants, vultures on full display.

Great lake and facilities at Yorty Creek, however the camp sites desperately need animal proof trash cans. Many sites I passed had trash strewn all over from animals getting into the cans. Maintenance crew can only do so much

Early season campsite so I didn’t expect it to be in prestige condition but the ground was flat and plenty of room for a 5-6 person tent. The bathrooms were available with toilet paper stocked but a little hesitant to go into due to the spider webs, birds nesting in them and unclean toilet seats. Overall it was a good experience and I would go back to the same site.

Campsite was a mess. No flat spots to put a tent up either. Would never recommend using the quick silver sites.

Excellent spot. Close to the shoreline, with a mixture of shade and sun. Close to the pig hunting.

Sites had trash mountains & were overloaded with yellowjackets on the piles. The lake itself and areas not covered in trash were really nice.

Beautiful place. With a larger group, we reserved multiple sites. Some sites are great and can accomodate a couple tents. There are sites at this camp that are not maintained well enough to have a single tent (even a small backpacking tent). They need to maintain these sites, or at the very least, take a trip out there to identify and remove the bookable sites that can't actually be camped in from Recreation.gov. You can't charge people for campsites that can't fit a single tent.

We kayaked to Black Mountain camp from the boat launch. We launched around 7 pm in October, so within 45 minutes it was dark out, but we downloaded the map ahead of time so we could tell where we were going by GPS. Black Mountain is a great site in a more secluded part of the lake. We were within the No Wake zone, but a lot of boats ignored that, so don't expect the site to be completely free of running motors. We didn't have any issue with mosquitoes or ticks, but there was some poison oak further inland from our site. The outhouses at the site were fine. All in all we had a great and relaxing time. October seems like a great time to go and not worry about others camping close by.

Went in early fall on a colder day. Place was deserted and it was magical. Campsite wasn't water side but it was my first time there so I'm unsure of what the water levels are topically. Either way, picnic tables and pit latrine FTW

Had a great time here, very quiet time of year, the yellow jackets were awful but otherwise highly recommend.