Big Reservoir Campground
October 2026
About
Overview
Big Reservoir Campground is adjacent to a privately operated lake and associated Morning Star Campground consisting of an additional 100 campsites. Use of the lake and associated facilities at Morning Star are subject to a $25.00 fee not associated with your reserved campsites at Big Reservoir Campground. Please contact the campground office at (530) 346-3028.
Facilities
Big Reservoir offers vault toilets and drinking water. Each Campsite has one table and a fire ring with cooking grille. Camp supplies like firewood are available at the adjacent Morning Star Campground Office.
Contact Info
For facility specific information, please call (530) 346-3028.
Nearby Attractions
Morning Star Campground and Big Reservoir are adjacent to this campground.
Sugar pine OHV Staging area nearby provides access to miles of Off Highway Vehicle trails.
Sugar pine Reservoir offers fishing, boating, and swimming and is located 9 miles away.
Amenities
Phone: 530-367- 2129
Is Big Reservoir Campground fully booked?
A campground showing no availability is almost never full for good. People cancel — plans change, weather turns, someone books three weekends and keeps one — and the site goes straight back into the booking system, usually without warning and often at odd hours. The reason sold-out campgrounds feel impossible is not that sites never free up; it is that nobody is watching at the moment they do.
CampHawk watches Big Reservoir Campground in Foresthill, CA for you. We recheck it every 15 seconds, around the clock, and the moment a site opens we send a text, an email and a push notification — and on Recreation.gov we can put the site straight into your cart, so it is held while you get to your phone.
Searching is free and needs no account — the calendar above is live right now. Watching Big Reservoir Campground for cancellations is the paid part.