Visited on 7/23/2017 – Picture taken on a weekend camping trip in our Truck Camper and Boat with Jeff and our dogs, Summer and Skye. We visited Lake Oroville on our way home on Sunday afternoon, stopped at the pullout just north of the “Little Green Golden Gate Bridge” on the east side of the Lake. The water level has been purposely lowered to about half or 50% because of the famous Oroville Dam failure of 2017. Jeff and I had an adventurous trip down the hill from Plumas County via Highway 162 from Quincy, CA and Buck’s Lake. Highway 162 was damaged so badly during the rain storms this past winter that it washed out the road and the road has been closed. Jeff and I didn’t know the road was closed and drove 25 miles down the hill until we reached the barricade in the road and it really wasn’t a good area to turn the truck camper and the boat around. We were sitting there trying to figure out what to do, when a couple drove up to us and told us to take a 6 mile off-road dirt logging road around the mountain! With hesitation we did it! It took us 45 minutes going 5-10 mph along that white knuckle path, but we made it and now we can chaulk it up to another adventure. Lake Oroville is at 901 feet elevation and covers 15,805 acres approximately 5 miles northeast of city of Oroville, California. Lake Oroville's dam was built in 1968 and has a height of 755 feet, making it the tallest dam in the United States. Jeff and I have camped and boated several times over the years on this Lake. We have taken our horses a few times to Loafer Creek Horse Camp located on the southeast corner of the lake for weekend trail rides and camp with our horses. The Loafer Creek Campground and over 50 miles of trails along the Lake were donated to the State of California Dept. of Recreation by Roy Rogers to be developed for hiking and use by equestrians.
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