Lakehead Campground & RV Park

The facts that decide your trip

Max rig length

40 ft

Sites

48

Hookups

Full Hookups (30A)

Access

Drive-in

Nightly rate

Not published

Season

Open year-round

Elevation

1115 ft

Dump station

No

Potable water

Yes

What is actually on site

• 30 amp
• Dog friendly
• Pull-through
• WiFi
• Flush toilets
• Potable water
• Showers
• Swimming
• Fishing
• Picnic tables
• Fire rings
• Cell service

Nearest public camera

Antlers Bridge · I-5 — about 0.7 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 / Lakeshore Drive exit at Lakehead (exit 702). Turn east off the ramp onto Antlers Road; the park is at 20999 Antlers Road, a short distance along on the right, before the road drops toward the lake. From the north, take I-5 south to the same exit and turn left over the freeway, then east onto Antlers Road. This is one of the easiest arrivals on the lake. The park sits close to the interchange on paved road with no grade to speak of and no switchbacks, so the 40-foot limit is about site dimensions rather than about getting there. Continue down Antlers Road past the park and you reach the Forest Service Antlers Campground, Antlers RV Park and the public boat ramp. Worth knowing: the same exit serves Antlers Road going east and Lakeshore Drive going south, and there are four different campgrounds with "Antlers" or "Lakehead" in the name within two miles of it. Check the street number — 20999 Antlers Road — rather than trusting a name match in your navigation app.

40.89503, -122.38122 · Driving directions

Local deep dive

Lakehead Campground and RV Park is the small family-run option at the top of the Sacramento Arm, up on Antlers Road near the freeway interchange rather than down on the lakeshore. It is the least corporate park on this stretch and the one with the most varied inventory, and it publishes its site breakdown in more detail than anyone else here. The mix: 22 RV sites with full hookups — water, sewer and 30-amp power — plus 3 with partial hookups and no sewer. Five of the sites are pull-through and four are extra-large back-ins. Beyond the RV sites there are 23 shaded camp sites with fire pits and tables, 2 electric tent sites, 3 cabin tents pre-set with beds, electricity, light and a fan, one 120 square foot camping cabin with bunk beds and air conditioning, and a two-bedroom "Lil Kabin" with a kitchen that sleeps two to six. Campendium puts the total at 48 sites; the operator's own breakdown adds up slightly higher, so treat 48 as approximate. **The fact that decides it for a lot of people: 30 amp is the maximum here.** There is no 50-amp service. A modern coach running two air conditioners in Shasta County in July is not going to be comfortable on 30 amp, and this is the one park in the Lakehead cluster where that limitation is explicit. Combined with the 40-foot rig cap, this is a park for trailers, smaller fifth wheels, vans, tents and cabins rather than for big diesel pushers. If you are in one of those, Antlers RV Park a mile away takes 75 feet and Shasta Lake RV Resort takes 50. What you get in exchange is location and character. The park states you can walk to the lake, the boat launch and fast food from the sites, which is not something the lakeside resorts down Lakeshore Drive can say about the public ramp. Facilities are modest and honestly described — the operator calls them "small bathrooms with flush toilets and hot showers" — plus a laundry with two washers and two dryers, a small country store carrying firewood, ice and groceries, free Wi-Fi, a swimming pool, and a rec room with a pool table, foosball and ping pong. There are horseshoe pits, a basketball court and volleyball. The 23 shaded camp sites come with fire pits and tables, which is the part that makes this feel like a campground rather than a parking lot with hookups. It is open year round, which on this corridor is a real advantage — most of the Forest Service campgrounds on the lake close or drop to dry camping once the season ends.

Lakehead is a small unincorporated community strung along Interstate 5 at the head of the Sacramento Arm, with a market, a gas station, fast food and a cluster of resorts. The park sits in the middle of that, which is what makes the walkability real: you can leave the rig parked and reach food, groceries and the water on foot, which is not true of most campgrounds on this lake. The trade is freeway proximity. I-5 is close, and traffic noise is part of the experience at this end of the arm. Anyone after quiet should be looking further up the McCloud or Pit arms and accepting the dry camping that comes with them. Weather is Shasta foothill weather at roughly 1,100 feet: hot, dry summers running past 100 degrees F on the worst July afternoons, and mild wet winters where snow is rare but the I-5 grade north toward Dunsmuir chains up several times a season. The shaded camp sites matter more here than the brochure suggests — canopy is the difference between a tolerable August afternoon and an unpleasant one, particularly on 30-amp power. Seasonally the lake empties out fast after Labor Day. From September through May this is a quiet, cheap, year-round base with the water drawing down week by week through the irrigation season, which lengthens the walk from the park to a usable shoreline. Trout fishing improves as the water cools. The neighbours are worth knowing when this place is full, which it gets on summer weekends. Antlers RV Park is about a mile down the same road with full hookups, a marina and a 75-foot rig limit. The Forest Service Antlers Campground is further along, cheaper and dry. Lakeshore Drive south of the interchange carries Lakeshore Resort and Shasta Lake RV Resort. Between them, the Lakehead cluster is the densest concentration of camping on Shasta Lake, and when the Forest Service sites book out months ahead through Recreation.gov, these private parks are where the overflow lands. On fire: the park is privately operated, and whether Shasta-Trinity Forest Orders reach it depends on the land status, which we have not been able to document. Sites have fire pits, but in a restricted year that does not settle whether you may use them. Ask at check-in rather than assuming the ring means yes.

Questions people ask

Where these facts come from

• Lakehead Campground & RV Park — official site · checked 2026-09-11
• Lakehead Campground & RV Park — amenities and site breakdown · checked 2026-09-11
• Campendium — Lakehead Campground & RV Park (site total, rig length, elevation, coordinates, cell reports) · checked 2026-09-11
• Good Sam — Lakehead Campground & RV Park · checked 2026-09-11