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From the majestic rock cliffs and endless beaches of the Coast Range to the Cascade Range and the Sierra Nevada, where outdoor enthusiasts can find the best summer-weather mountain camping in the state, only the best campsites are profiled in this easy-to-use guide.



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The Best in Tent Camping: Northern California wil guide you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best managed campgrounds in Northern California. Painstakingly selected from thousands of campgrounds on the coast, in the Sierra Nevada, and in the Cascade Range, each campsite is rated for: beauty, noise, privacy, security, spaciousness, cleanliness.


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If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, The Best in Tent Camping should be your constant companion.

Each campground profile includes:

Detailed campground maps
Key information such as fees, restrictions, and dates of operation
Driving directions to the campground
Ratings for beauty, privacy, spaciousness, quiet, security, and cleanliness

From the seaside vistas of Big Basin Redwoods State Park overlooking the Pacific Ocean, to the granite cliffs and glacial lakes of the northern Sierra Nevada, The Best in Tent Camping: Northern California is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching a tent on a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the blare of another camper's boombox, or waking to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs.
Whether you are a northern California native in search of new territory or a vacationer on the lookout for that dream campground, this book will help you unlock the secrets to the best tent camping that northern California has to offer.





About the Author
Bill Mai spent his childhood summers camping with his family. A resident of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he lived in California for many years where he wrote screenplays.



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Domingo Springs Campground is the yin of campgrounds-protected and feminine, down in the flowered and ferned shady marsh by the North Fork Feather River. Atop Lassen Volcanic National Park, you are close to major a supply source, Chester, and close to Lake Almanor for fishing, sailing, and swimming-but out of the way enough to camp in bucolic ease like a country squire.

There's good shopping at the supermarket in Chester-as well as decent cafes and restaurants right across the street. Get last-minute supplies and ease on into the campground when the shadows are long and Domingo Springs looks like a movie set, with its split-rail fences, rustic bridge, and wooded campsites.

All of the tent pitches are on soft ground, and most of them are backed into the woods. This campground is run by the University Foundation, California State University at Chico (like the other wonderful campgrounds at Eagle Lake), and it shows. Somebody has worried about how the campground looks and how it feels to camp there. Domingo Springs has an oriental-garden quality-magic.

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