Holiday Harbor Resort & Marina

The facts that decide your trip

Max rig length

Operator does not publish one

Sites

27

Hookups

Full Hookups (50/30A)

Access

Drive-in

Nightly rate

$65–$85 / night

Season

Apr 1 – Oct 31

Elevation

Not published

Dump station

No

Potable water

Yes

What is actually on site

• Shade canopy
• 50 amp
• 30 amp
• Dog friendly
• Flush toilets
• Potable water
• Showers
• Swimming
• Fishing
• Picnic tables
• Cell service

Nearest public camera

O'Brien · I-5 — about 0.9 mi from the campground

Camera operated by Caltrans District 2

Frame refreshes about every 5 min · feed last verified 4 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 20 miles to the Shasta Caverns Road exit at O'Brien. Turn east and follow Shasta Caverns Road roughly a mile down toward the lake. The resort is at 20061 Shasta Caverns Road. From the north, take I-5 south to the same exit. The approach is a mile of paved two-lane dropping steadily toward the water, with curves but no switchbacks and no low clearances. Coming back out is a sustained climb. A quirk worth knowing: the resort own material gives the town as Lakehead, while the state boating record and Good Sam both put it in O'Brien. Both are correct in their way — O'Brien is the community at this exit, Lakehead the larger postal area up the freeway. Navigate to the road and the street number, not the town name. The Lake Shasta Caverns visitor centre is on the same road, and the catamaran that takes visitors across the McCloud Arm to the cave entrance leaves from right here. Bailey Cove — the Forest Service campground and the public boat ramp — is about half a mile away on the same neck of land.

40.80220, -122.31062 · Driving directions

Local deep dive

Holiday Harbor is the RV campground attached to a full working marina on the neck of land between the main body of Shasta Lake and the McCloud Arm — 27 tree-shaded full-hookup sites, a mile off Interstate 5, with the lake at the bottom of the property. The thing that sets it apart from every other private park on this lake is that you can keep a boat at your site. Moorage is priced per night alongside the RV rate — $25 in summer, $22 off-season, with weekly and monthly rates — so a family towing a ski boat, or one renting a houseboat from the marina, never has to shuttle between a campsite and a distant ramp. The California Division of Boating and Waterways record for the facility lists boat rentals, fuel sales, haul-out and boat repair, electricity and water on the dock, a convenience store, a restaurant, restrooms, showers, laundry, shore boat service and oil disposal. This is a marina that happens to have a campground, not a campground with a dock. One rule here is absolute: no campfires. Holiday Harbor states it flatly, and it is not a seasonal restriction that lifts in a wet year — it is the property rule. If a fire is part of how your family camps, this is the wrong booking, and it is the single most common reason people are disappointed on arrival. Charcoal and open flame are the thing to ask about before you pack. The other detail worth knowing is the season. Holiday Harbor runs 1 April to 31 October and prices it in two bands, and the gap is larger than most people expect: $85 a night for a site and two people through summer, $65 from 9 September. Shasta after Labor Day is quieter, cooler and cheaper, and the water is still warm enough to swim into late September. If your dates are flexible, the week after Labor Day is the best value on this lake. Facilities are solid for 27 sites: laundry, restrooms with hot showers, a general store and a cafe on the property, and a dedicated swim area. Sites are described as spacious and tree-shaded, which at 1,000-odd feet in a Shasta County August is not decoration — canopy is the difference between a tolerable afternoon and an unpleasant one. The resort does not publish a maximum rig length anywhere we can find, saying only that sites take everything from small trailers to larger motorhomes. We have left the field explicitly blank rather than guess. Call before you book anything long.

Holiday Harbor sits on the neck between the main body of Shasta Lake and the mouth of the McCloud Arm, which is a genuinely good piece of water to be based on. Head north and you are up the McCloud Arm past Hirz Bay toward the limestone bluffs; head west and you are in the main body running toward Packers Bay and the dam. It is a shorter run to more of the lake from here than from the head of the Sacramento Arm. The immediate neighbourhood is unusual. Lake Shasta Caverns is on the same road — the only commercial cave tour on the lake, reached by boat then bus — which makes this one of the few campgrounds on Shasta with a paid attraction inside walking distance of the gate. Bailey Cove, the Forest Service campground and its public boat ramp, is half a mile away and dry-camps at a fraction of the price for anyone who does not need hookups. Services beyond the store and cafe mean Redding, about 20 miles and 25 minutes south. There is no supermarket at this exit. Seasonally this is an April-to-October operation and it behaves like one. July and August are hot, busy and fully booked; the property is at roughly 1,000 feet and Sacramento Valley heat reaches this far north. September and October are the quiet reward — cheaper rates, warm water into late September, better fishing as the lake cools, and steadily dropping water levels as the irrigation season draws Shasta down. By late October the shoreline is a long way below where it was in June, which lengthens the walk from a dock to open water. On fire: the campground bans campfires outright as a property rule, which is stricter than any Forest Order. Separately, the resort operates on National Forest land under a Forest Service special-use permit — it appears in the Shasta-Trinity commercial services guide — so Shasta-Trinity Forest Orders reach the property as well. In practice the property rule is the binding one and it never lifts.

Questions people ask

Where these facts come from

• Holiday Harbor — RV campground page (sites, rates, amenities, no-campfire rule) · checked 2026-09-11
• California Division of Boating and Waterways — Holiday Harbor Resort & Marina facility record (coordinates, marina services) · checked 2026-09-11
• USDA Forest Service — Commercial Services at Shasta Lake (Recreation Opportunity Guide) · checked 2026-09-11
• Good Sam — Holiday Harbor Shasta Lake Resort & Marina · checked 2026-09-11