Lake Solano - Solano County, California

Visited on 3/24/2018 while Jeff and I along with our two dogs, Summer and Skye took a Saturday drive from our Ranch over to Napa Valley.  We drove to the day-use area and through the campground to check out the camping spots for a later visit.  The campsites along the lake are premium price.  Located at the Lake is a really nice Lake Solano Nature Center.  Lake Solano is a reservoir located at 202 feet above sea level formed by Putah Diversion Dam impounding Putah Creek, located in the Vaca Mountains within Yolo County and northern Solano County, California.

The reservoir is 1.5 miles long with a capacity of 750 acre-feet. It serves to divert water into the Putah South Canal to supply agricultural and urban users. It is 6 miles downstream from Monticello Dam, also on Putah Creek. The city of Winters is 5.3 miles downstream from the Putah Diversion Dam in the western Sacramento Valley.

Picture taken from the middle of the bridge looking west toward Lake Berryessa.

Lake Solano Nature Center is located at Lake Solano at the entrance to the Campground. The Lake Solano Nature Center is a 5,000 square foot nature exhibit-interpretive learning facility.  This multi-use interactive exhibit hall and ranger station is housed in this modern state of the art building.  We will visit this nature center on our next visit to Lake Solano.

This Peacock greeted us at the campground while we were driving around the campground.  He stayed perfectly still while we drove by.  Our dogs barked, but he didn't move a muscle!