Antlers RV Park & Campground

The facts that decide your trip

Max rig length

75 ft

Sites

104

Hookups

Full Hookups (50/30A)

Access

Drive-in

Nightly rate

Not published

Season

Open year-round

Elevation

Not published

Dump station

Yes

Potable water

Yes

What is actually on site

• Boat rampIts own marina, on site — launch ramps, fuel, a pumpout, 120 covered slips or tie-ups, and boat rentals. The free public Antlers ramp is 0.8 miles south. At low pool the usable end of either ramp moves back, so check lake level before you tow.
• 50 amp
• 30 amp
• Dog friendly
• Dump station
• WiFi
• Flush toilets
• Potable water
• Showers
• Swimming
• Fishing
• Picnic tables
• Fire rings
• Cell service

Nearest public camera

Antlers Bridge · I-5 — about 0.9 mi from the campground

Camera operated by Caltrans District 2

Frame refreshes about every 5 min · feed last verified 3 days ago

Useful for road surface, smoke and haze — not for checking your site.

Facility info

Getting there

From Redding, take Interstate 5 north about 33 miles to the Antlers Road exit at Lakehead (exit 702). Turn east off the ramp onto Antlers Road and follow it roughly 1.5 miles toward the lake. The resort office, marina and RV park are on the left as the road drops toward the water; the Forest Service Antlers Campground and the public Antlers boat ramp are further along the same road, closer to the shoreline. From the north, take I-5 south to the same Antlers Road exit and turn left over the freeway, then east toward the lake. The last mile and a half is paved two-lane with a steady grade down to the water and no tight switchbacks, which is why 75-foot rigs can get in here when they cannot get into the Forest Service campgrounds up the arms. Coming back out is a sustained climb — worth remembering if you are towing a boat up behind a loaded coach on a hot afternoon. If your navigation app takes you to "Antlers Campground" you may end up at the Forest Service entrance instead. The resort publishes its address as 20679 Antlers Road, Lakehead, CA 96051. Third-party directories variously list 20682 Antlers Road and 1000 Antlers Road for the same property, so the road name is the reliable part and the number is not.

40.89421, -122.37040 · Driving directions

Local deep dive

There are two Antlers on this stretch of the Sacramento Arm and people book the wrong one constantly. Antlers Campground is a Forest Service campground on National Forest land, reserved through Recreation.gov, with vault and flush toilets, no hookups, and Forest Service rates. Antlers RV Park & Campground is a private operation run by Antlers Resort & Marina, a few hundred yards up the same road, with full hookups, a pool, a store, laundry and a marina. Same name, same road, same lake, entirely different product and entirely different price. If you are looking at a booking confirmation and cannot tell which one you have, check who took your money: Recreation.gov means the Forest Service campground, and anything else means the resort. The thing worth understanding about the private park is that it is not really a standalone RV park — it is the camping half of a resort. Spot2Nite lists 65 RV sites and 39 tent sites, which is where the 104 total on this page comes from. The RV pads are compacted gravel back-ins with room for a tow vehicle, and the resort states that most accommodate slide-outs and awnings. Rig capacity is listed at 75 feet, which is genuinely big-rig territory and unusual this far up the lake, where the Forest Service campgrounds mostly top out between 16 and 30 feet. The tent sites are a different proposition: shaded forest camping with fire rings and picnic tables, one vehicle per site, restrooms and potable water nearby, and a short walk down to the water. Directory listings disagree about whether there are pull-throughs here. Spot2Nite describes back-in sites only; The Dyrt lists pull-through sites as available. We have left the pull-through field blank rather than pick a side, because for anyone towing, that is exactly the fact you cannot afford to guess at. Ask when you book. One piece of context that explains a lot about how this place operates: the California Division of Boating and Waterways facility record lists the managing authority for Antlers Resort & Marina as the US Forest Service. Like most of the lakeside resorts on Shasta, it runs on National Forest land under a special-use permit rather than on deeded private ground. That is why the resort sits inside the same closure orders, fire restrictions and seasonal fire-ban language that apply to the Forest Service campgrounds around it, even though the gate, the pool and the store are privately run. When a Forest Order bans campfires on the Shasta-Trinity, it does not stop at the resort boundary.

Antlers sits at the head of the Sacramento Arm, the busiest and most developed part of Shasta Lake, and the character of a stay here follows from that. You are close to I-5, you have cell coverage, there is a store and a burger window, and the water in front of you is the main channel where the houseboat traffic runs. This is not the place to come for solitude. It is a very good place to come if you want to launch a boat, feed a family and not drive anywhere for three days. Lakehead itself is a small unincorporated community strung along the freeway with a handful of resorts, a market and a gas station. Anything beyond basic groceries means Redding, about 33 miles and 35 minutes south. The nearest hospital is in Redding. The Forest Service campgrounds within a few miles — Antlers, Lakeshore East, Gregory Creek Group, Nelson Point — run dry-camp or minimal-hookup operations at a fraction of the price, and fill on summer weekends months ahead through Recreation.gov. If those are booked, the private parks at Lakehead are the overflow, which is why availability here tightens in the same weeks. Seasonally, this end of the lake empties out fast after Labor Day. The resort is listed as open all year, but September through May is a different lake: the crowds are gone, water temperature drops through the fall, and lake level draws down through the irrigation season so the shoreline walk from a tent site gets longer every week. Trout fishing improves as the water cools. Snow is rare at 1,000-odd feet but the I-5 grade north toward Dunsmuir chains up several times a winter, which matters if you are heading further north rather than back to Redding. Fire restrictions are the seasonal rule that catches people out. Because the property operates under a Forest Service permit, Shasta-Trinity Forest Orders apply here, and in a bad fire year campfires and charcoal can be banned outright at sites that have fire rings built into them. Check the current Forest Order rather than assuming the ring in front of your tent means you can use it. Launching is the practical reason to pay resort money here rather than camp at one of the Forest Service sites up the road. Antlers is one of the few places on Shasta Lake where you can camp and launch without moving the truck twice. The California Division of Boating and Waterways facility record lists the marina with launch ramps, fuel sales, a sewage and bilge pumpout, boat rentals, haul-out and repair, water on the dock, and a total capacity of 120 covered slips or tie-ups. The same record sets a minimum boat length of 14 ft and a maximum of 24 ft — that is a slip constraint for tenants, not a limit on what you can put down the ramp. The free public Antlers ramp sits about 0.8 miles south and is the fallback when the resort ramp is busy, or when lake level has pulled the water back from the resort frontage. Both are subject to the same seasonal reality: at low pool the usable end of the ramp moves, and what was a paved launch in June can be a gravel scramble by October.

Questions people ask

Where these facts come from

• California Division of Boating and Waterways — Antlers Resort & Marina facility record · checked 2026-09-11
• Antlers Resort & Marina — Shasta Lake campgrounds · checked 2026-09-11
• Spot2Nite — Antlers RV Park & Campground listing · checked 2026-09-11
• Good Sam — Antlers Resort & RV Park · checked 2026-09-11
• The Dyrt — Antlers RV Park and Campground · checked 2026-09-11
• USDA Forest Service — Antlers Campground (the adjacent agency campground) · checked 2026-09-11